blog platforms
Medium: a post-advertising business? Paid Members Public
Interesting summation of Medium’s current business philosphy [https://medium.com/@ev/its-about-business-model-4cb23333bc5d?source=linkShare-616a00ae793c-1502634346] from Ev Williams: > If remuneration is not part of the equation for why you publish, I can’t imagine a stand-alone web site serving you better than Medium in terms of cost, simplicity, and,
Crowdfunded blog platform Typed announces its forthcoming demise Paid Members Public
Typed, the crowdfunded blog platform I wrote about [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/02/typed-blog-platform-crowdfunding.html] way back when, is dying [https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/typed-com-future/13772/2]: > For the last 8+ months, Typed.com has been running at a loss. I’ve tried hard to make
Ghost wants to be a publishing partner for 3 journalism startups - and help them find a business model Paid Members Public
Ghost is looking to fund new journalism initiatives.
The Sun runs on WordPress Paid Members Public
Things I didn’t know [https://vip.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/bigwp-returns-to-london-next-week/]: > News UK moved thesun.co.uk to WordPress.com VIP last summer, becoming the fastest growing newspaper site in the UK, with well over 20 million monthly unique visitors, and tens of millions of page views
Medium goes large - to a $400m valuation Paid Members Public
Medium, the blogging platform created by Ev Williams, has just take on a big new chunk of investment [http://recode.net/2015/09/28/ev-williams-medium-raises-57-million-for-the-best-stories-and-ideas-on-the-internet/] : > Medium, the publishing platform hatched by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, has raised $57 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz. It’s the
Tory digital privacy moves scare off Ghost Paid Members Public
Here’s an actual product moving overseas [http://blog.ghost.org/digitalocean/] thanks to the UK government’s moves on digital privacy (as opposed to a notional one [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/05/follow-up-on-the-brighton-tech-company-quitting-the-uk.html] ): > The UK’s newly elected Conservative government recently pledged to scrap the
Medium: defined Paid Members Public
From a footnote by Dr Drang [http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/05/not-taken/#]: > They call it Medium because it’s neither rare nor well done. That’s still making me chuckle an hour after I first read it…
Trying out Typed Paid Members Public
So, another new blog platform. For years it felt like we'd narrowed things down to a handful of established blogging platforms, and innovation had slowed to a (relative) trickle. Now, all of a sudden, we have new blog platforms coming think and fast. Most recently there was Ghost
