{"id":3845,"date":"2010-12-01T22:21:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T22:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2010-12-01T22:21:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T22:21:13","slug":"why_the_ipad_sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3845","title":{"rendered":"Why the iPad should rival the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/6130938a-fd85-11df-a049-00144feab49a.html#axzz16vJL6Wez\">John Gapper<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Richard Branson and Rupert Murdoch are entrepreneurs with an admirable record of ignoring conventional wisdom, so it is worth watching when they do the same thing at once.<br \/>\nIn this case, they are launching iPad-only publications. Sir Richard bowled into New York on Tuesday to unveil a \u00a31.79 or $2.99 monthly magazine called Project, while Mr Murdoch is about to launch a &#8220;newspaper&#8221; called The Daily, for which he hopes 800,000 people will pay $1 a week. Both will charge readers in an era when most internet publications are free.<br \/>\nThe fact that Mr Murdoch will separate his new daily publication from &#8220;the open web&#8221; by publishing on the iPad has provoked scepticism and hostility in digital media circles. &#8220;Murdoch keeps fighting the internet and the internet keeps on winning,&#8221; wrote Mathew Ingram, of the GigaOm technology blog.<br \/>\nThis fits into a bigger debate about whether companies are balkanising the web to gain economic leverage. Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist who invented the World Wide Web, complained in Scientific American about Facebook&#8217;s private accumulation of data, and of print publishers&#8217; &#8220;disturbing&#8221; wish to create closed worlds.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/6130938a-fd85-11df-a049-00144feab49a.html#axzz16vJL6Wez\">John Gapper<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Richard Branson and Rupert Murdoch are entrepreneurs with an admirable record of ignoring conventional wisdom, so it is worth watching when they do the same thing at once.<br \/>\nIn this case, they are launching iPad-only publications. Sir Richard bowled into New York on Tuesday to unveil a \u00a31.79 or $2.99 monthly magazine called Project, while Mr Murdoch is about to launch a &#8220;newspaper&#8221; called The Daily, for which he hopes 800,000 people will pay $1 a week. Both will charge readers in an era when most internet publications are free.<br \/>\nThe fact that Mr Murdoch will separate his new daily publication from &#8220;the open web&#8221; by publishing on the iPad has provoked scepticism and hostility in digital media circles. &#8220;Murdoch keeps fighting the internet and the internet keeps on winning,&#8221; wrote Mathew Ingram, of the GigaOm technology blog.<br \/>\nThis fits into a bigger debate about whether companies are balkanising the web to gain economic leverage. Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist who invented the World Wide Web, complained in Scientific American about Facebook&#8217;s private accumulation of data, and of print publishers&#8217; &#8220;disturbing&#8221; wish to create closed worlds.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,32,23,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}