Medium

Posts about the publishing platform Medium, which was founded by Ev Williams

Medium: defined 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…

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

A rule of thumb for Medium Members Public

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

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Adam Tinworth
freeconomics

If Medium is exploiting you - that's your problem Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
business models

Medium's evolution as a publishing platform Members Public

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

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Adam Tinworth
Blogging

One Man & His Medium Blog Members Public

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.

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Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Medium is a long-form social message Members Public

[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_

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Medium just became an online magazine platform Members Public

[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

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Adam Tinworth
magazines

Medium versus News Members Public

[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

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Adam Tinworth
Medium