It took one day for someone to come up with a workaround to show portions of The Daily for free online. The Daily: Indexed is posted on Tumblr. Inspired by a Tweet from LR pal Rex Sorgatz, Waxy.org’s Andy Baio says he created the Tumblr to give people easier access to the stories online:
“Why did I do this? The Daily’s publishing free, web-based versions to every article, but without an index, it’s very inconvenient to find or link to individual articles from the web. And since the iPad app appears to only carry today’s edition, it makes finding any historical articles you’ve paid for nearly impossible.
Note that Baio’s goal is to index the already free stories that The Daily has said it wants people to share. The Daily does not have a homepage. The Tumblr site encourages people to subscribe to The Daily and has a link to do so. We’ll be fascinated to see if News Corp encourages this.
