Medium
Posts about the publishing platform Medium, which was founded by Ev Williams
Medium makes publications more prominent in its apps Paid Members Public
Medium is making Publications, its approach to creating “websites” within the platform, much more prominent in its apps [https://blog.medium.com/a-new-home-for-your-favorite-publications-in-the-medium-app-289443747d42#.40dnb9r17] : > Only publications that you follow on Medium will be featured on your app’s home screen (and only when they have new posts to read)
Ev Williams: preserving the web's chaos at Medium Paid Members Public
Interesting profile of Ev Williams [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/ev-williams-is-the-forrest-gump-of-the-internet/486899/] , the man behind Blogger, Twitter and now Medium, over at The Atlantic: > But as I spend more time with Ev, I catch him thinking of Medium as a project philosophically akin to the “Foundation”
Google News Lab is on Medium Paid Members Public
Google News Lab is on Medium [https://medium.com/google-news-lab] Worth a follow, as they’re funding some interesting stuff.
Bill Simmons' The Ringer heads to Medium Paid Members Public
Talking of publishing platforms, Bill Simmons’ new venture, post-Grantland and ESPN [http://espnmediazone.com/us/espn-statement-regarding-grantland/], is heading to Medium [https://medium.com/@el/medium-home-of-the-ringer-829dd263f955#.d9g8rm3ik]: > We first talked to Bill in December. Over the ensuing weeks, it became clear that we have a shared passion for raising the
Medium: cutting journalists out of the news equation Paid Members Public
There’s a certain genius to Medium that I think gets easily lost. Medium [https://medium.com] has solved the biggest problem in blogging: maintaining a blog. Look, running a blog is hard work. I’ve been running this one for 12 years now, and it remains a hungry beast
Journalists: want to pitch Medium? Paid Members Public
For those who aren’t aware, within Medium are several publications they run in-house, including Backchannel [https://medium.com/backchannel], a tech magazine, and Matter [https://medium.com/matter], which is an evolved form of the long-form science journalism crowd-funded startup which I’ve written about in the past [http:
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
The website is diffusing to death Paid Members Public
Simon Owens’ reason for cross-posting to his blog, Medium and LinkedIn [https://medium.com/marketing-102/why-every-blog-post-should-be-crossposted-to-linkedin-and-medium-659be418ebe9] : > The harsh reality is that only a tiny fraction of your social media followers will click on a link to an outside website, and most prefer to interact and consume content that’s
