{"id":37044,"date":"2012-05-07T23:48:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T23:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-the-real-problem-with-apps-was-more-profound\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T23:48:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T23:48:52","slug":"but-the-real-problem-with-apps-was-more-profound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-the-real-problem-with-apps-was-more-profound\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But the real problem with apps was more profound. When people read news and features on electronic media, they expect stories to possess the linky-ness of the Web, but stories in apps didn&rsquo;t really link. The apps were, in the jargon of information technology, &ldquo;walled gardens,&rdquo; and although sometimes beautiful, they were small, stifling gardens. For readers, none of that beauty overcame the weirdness and frustration of reading digital media closed off from other digital media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/business\/40319\/#.T6fn_4Jf8dg.twitter\">Why Publishers Don&rsquo;t Like Apps &#8211; Technology Review<\/a> Hat tip to Kottke.org<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the real problem with apps was more profound. When people read news and features on electronic media, they expect stories to possess the linky-ness of the Web, but stories in apps didn&rsquo;t really link. The apps were, in the jargon of information technology, &ldquo;walled gardens,&rdquo; and although sometimes beautiful, they were small, stifling gardens. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Du","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}