blog platforms
Medium: defined
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…
Medium
Posts about the publishing platform Medium, which was founded by Ev Williams
freeconomics
A rule of thumb for Medium
Marco Arment, 18 months ago [http://www.marco.org/2013/08/05/be-your-own-platform]: > Treat places like Medium the way you’d treat writing for someone else’s magazine, for free. It serves the same purpose: your writing gets to appear in a semi-upscale setting and you might temporarily get
business models
If Medium is exploiting you - that's your problem
Matthew Butterick [http://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html]: > Among web-publishing tools, I see Medium as the equivalent of a frozen pizza: not as wholesome as a meal you could make yourself, but for those with out the time or motivation to cook, a potentially better option than just eating peanut
Blogging
Medium's evolution as a publishing platform
Medium continues to evolve at a fair old clip; * First we had the launch of its more “bloggy” interface to encourage more short form writing [https://medium.com/the-story/a-less-long-more-connected-medium-c345db2d6a56] . * Then they brought writing to the iOS app [https://medium.com/the-story/tell-your-story-anywhere-ef28fedf347], finally: But the most interesting – and possibly
Blogging
One Man & His Medium Blog
I probably don’t need more places to write – but I’ve decided to give Medium a go, for a little while at least. My first post is up, exploring the brief bout of Blogger’s Block [https://medium.com/@adders/bloggers-block-1ff21eed5c1a] I just went through. [Adam Tinworth](https://medium.
Blogging
Medium is a long-form social message
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/12/welcome-to-medium.jpg] Simon Owens has written a really nice piece exploring what Medium is trying to do [http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/12/how-medium-is-trying-to-bring-back-the-web-we-lost/?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pbs%2Fmediashift-blog+%28mediashift-blog%29&utm_medium=feed&utm_
magazines
Medium just became an online magazine platform
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/06/medium-logo-jun-2014.png] An e-mail arrives from Medium, outlining the changes to their Collections [https://medium.com/the-story/the-future-of-collections-79e6ea385113] (collections of articles posted on Medium): > Collections will have now have three types of participants: Owner, editor, and writer. * The
Medium
Medium versus News
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/09/Medium.png] Medium is rejecting chronology as the key way it presents potential reading material [https://medium.com/about/e80cb20d3f03] to users: > Our goals are different: we want to give you great stuff to read. We have tens
blog platforms
Is Medium just a content farm?
Is glossy, exciting new blogging site Medium just a content farm [https://medium.com/writers-on-writing/336300490cbb]? > But it all neatly glosses over one ugly fact: Medium is just an upscale version of the same old business model used by shady content farms the world around. And it contributes to
Blogging
Messages about Medium, an Obvious new publishing tool
Well, look at that. Another web tool to reinvent social publishing that we hoi polloi can’t use yet. The Medium might to be the message this time – the users given access to the Medium are. Anil Dash made some good points earlier that this “private quasi-public beta” is actually