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Morning Conference: blogrolls, audience engagement and the discovery problem
Why Substack and Medium are looking back on 2001's tech to solve the biggest challenge in media
Medium
Posts about the publishing platform Medium, which was founded by Ev Williams
Blogging
It's 2019, and you still need to own your content
Beware the roach motels of the platforms - if content is your business, you still need to own and publish it yourself.
Medium
Medium hunting for a magazine acquisition — and a sustainable business model
Is Medium slowly becoming the Huffington Post circa 2008? It's hunt for more content suggests it might be.
Medium
Medium: destroyer of journalism
Ev Williams is full of a world of good intentions - but journalists who trusted Medium are paying the price.
Medium
Medium kills the reader memberships of its final partners
Medium continues the cull of all the features that made it a worthwhile platform to build a business on.
Medium
Medium goes all in on being a social network for content
Medium is leaving custom URLS behind - and that makes it a dangerous place for publishers.
blog platforms
Is Medium aiming to be the Facebook of long-form writing?
Stowe Boyd has some serious questions about the future of Medium [https://medium.com/@stoweboyd/is-medium-following-the-facebook-playbook-6a21b3db6e7d] : > And what about Medium? Are we better off because of Medium’s mechanisms to suggest to us what to read, or would we be better off with thousands of independent curators and publishers,
Blogging
Why is the journalism business so dismissive of Medium's new model? An experiment.
This morning, I’ve written a 2,000 word blog post about journalism and publishing strategy. But, you’ll note, this is the first blog post on here today. What’s going on? Well, Medium recently expanded their partner program [https://blog.medium.com/expanding-the-medium-partner-program-3be09dd146e4], allowing more writers to lock
blog platforms
Medium: a post-advertising business?
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,
dickbars
These are the days of the dickbar
You know those little floating sharebars that appear on sites like Medium? You know, they look like this: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2017/06/img_6334-1.png?ssl=1] Well, John Gruber is no fan [https://daringfireball.net/2017/06/medium_dickbars] : > I’m
How The Economist plays the platform game
How do you recruit new subscribers - especially young ones? For The Economist, social platforms are a big part of the equation…
Bobbie Johnson
Medium, serialization and the death of Matter
Talking of Medium, as we were [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2017/02/medium-tech-startup-elte.html] , Matt Locke had a great idea on how Medium could bring a new but familiar business model to the journalism web [https://medium.com/storythings-ltd/the-future-of-medium-should-be-episodic-91a29467a14a#.mrzxsuhzj] : > There is another, intriguing possibility – building a