Today in Tabs: I'm Not a Particle Man, I'm an Article, Man

What's he like? It's not important. Article man.

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Alexis Lloyd at the New York Times R&D Lab considered what "the article" might become in the era of Facebook Instant and Apple News, and she didn't actually use the word "transclusion," but nevertheless rediscovered the perpetually just-about-to-arrive folly of the semantic web: