{"id":944,"date":"2011-02-07T19:14:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T13:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=944"},"modified":"2011-02-07T20:28:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T14:58:30","slug":"the-abundance-of-news-why-i-like-the-idea-of-the-daily-on-the-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/the-abundance-of-news-why-i-like-the-idea-of-the-daily-on-the-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"The abundance of news &#038; why I like the idea of &#8216;The Daily&#8217; on the tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newspaper is the best curated medium for news. My current weekly dose of news consists of over 10 online sources and 3 print newspapers in Bangalore. The problem with online is duplicate stories; essentially everybody adding their 2 cents worth on the base story and repeating the main content. That&#8217;s why I like the newspaper, delayed but comprehensive. And definitely, not personalized. It also contains a lot of junk which I don&#8217;t wanna read but does an okay job of giving me what I <em>should<\/em> read. <\/p>\n<p>Delayed? Don&#8217;t think there is a problem with delayed as most of us don&#8217;t consume from the real-time fire-hose, but catchup the feeds slowly over the week.<\/p>\n<p>When Rupert Murdoch <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2011\/02\/02\/the-daily-ipad30m\/\">announced<\/a> &#8216;The Daily&#8217;, a daily digital newspaper for the iPad, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/newsgrange.com\/the-daily-tries-to-combine-the-best-of-traditional-and-online-media-into-one-app-fails\/\">derided<\/a> by many, who said, &#8220;Who wants delayed news these days?&#8221; Though, the current version of app is <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-the-daily-has-a-big-problem\/\">buggy<\/a> and only available on iPad, but, this is a good start in reducing the information overload.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the super bowl commercial announcing it&#8217;s nationwide launch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wyPqW6WsMPs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Why I like it?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Delayed relaxed reading of news on the tablet, rather than chasing of ever scrolling feeds<\/li>\n<li>Like a newspaper, but digital. Opportunity to personalize. Food, Wine, Travel, Delete. Comics, Technology, Politics? Double-it. Ditto for other categories<\/li>\n<li>This is the best digital version of a newspaper, rather than the slow loading, ill-fitting e-Papers<\/li>\n<li>Better curation than everybody linking to the same story in real-time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I do not have iPad, and eagerly waiting for the Android version. Until then, reading it via <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyindexed.tumblr.com\/\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newspaper is the best curated medium for news. My current weekly dose of news consists of over 10 online sources and 3 print newspapers in Bangalore. The problem with online is duplicate stories; essentially everybody adding their 2 cents worth on the base story and repeating the main content. That&#8217;s why I like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[189,252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}