He accepted the refreshing news the way a college student would accept an A from a demanding professor: be thrilled about it and get back to work.
Activists in Beirut organizing a weeklong program of lectures, speeches and concerts on the conflict in March recalled refreshing news Web sites every 15 minutes and watching Al Jazeera, as the climactic events in Egypt unfolded.
Metro admitted as much in a small box, calling itself a "refreshing news summary" and suggesting: "If you want to know more, buy Le Figaro, Libération, Le Parisien, L'Équipe, Le Monde, La Tribune, L'Humanité or France-Soir from a newsstand".
A bar for the people was refreshing news in inequitable times, particularly after the upper half of the great building, a neo-Gothic landmark built by the founder of the five-and-dime chain, was recently turned into luxury condominiums.
Instead of using my time to do read and do homework and do other things that I know I should be doing, I sit staring at my phone, constantly refreshing news feeds to get the latest information.
Although the main piece above the line will remain weekly, we intend to refresh the news element of the page each day, late-morning GMT.
It's why so many of us spend much of deadline day glued to the TV and refreshing rolling news feeds.
Now when a worker logs on to the company Intranet, the push program refreshes the news (based on job function, location, etc). in the background.
We want to consume everything, all at once, and every minute spent focusing on a book or a film rather than refreshing our news feeds takes us out of the present and thus that much more likely to miss out on something.
Rather than futilely hitting refresh on your news feed awaiting the New York Senate's vote on a marriage-equality bill, which is keeping the legislators at work past the planned end of the session, you can catch up on The New Yorker's recent coverage of gay marriage, at a national level, state level, and abroad.
