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Most of the posts on medium are so poorly written or blatantly false I just avoid the whole domain now. So in my eyes they have a lot of work to do to fix their branding.
I'm with you on this. In my eyes it's the "Experts Exchange" of our time.
I guess this is the direct counter-argument to my comment in the thread about Svtle. Is it true that people actually don't care about keeping ownership over their content? I find it so strange that these services which are pitched directly at people who consider themselves to be brilliant also become the archive for your stuff. It just seems like a conflict of interest when, yes, what exactly is their game plan?
Think of Medium as a new age New York Times. Curation will be done by the general public rather than a paid editing team. Think of the shift of real time news to Twitter. It's basically the same idea for long form journalism. You may disagree at this point in time but given a few years it'll end up being just that.
It's not even a good comparison. The NYT is a daily newspaper. The better-written pieces on medium have aspirations closer to what you'd find in The New Yorker or Vice. You have absolutely no precedent for thinking public curation will yield better results than the professionals who work for those institutions. In fact, most of the evidence so far (reddit, digg, etc...) indicates the contrary.
So, you can type text into a box and people can comment on it. And it has a nice font. My startup idea is that we sell chairs, but the chairs are nicer than some other chairs and they say 'chair' on them. Can I get $25 million too?
If only medium would produce something...other than blog posts...
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Really? My perception is that "the HN crowd" is known for being pedantic know-it-alls criticizing every minute detail of anything. "Man-child" seems much more Slashdot/Reddit/Digg/4chan plus the rest of the internet.
I like the irony of a person talking about pedantic know-it-alls, via a comment that dissects the exact meaning of the phrase "the HN crowd".
If I wanted to be pedantic I would point out that even if your impression were correct it still wouldn't be ironic.
I guess this is the direct counter-argument to my comment in the thread about Svtle. Is it true that people actually don't care about keeping ownership over their content? I find it so strange that these services which are pitched directly at people who consider themselves to be brilliant also become the archive for your stuff. It just seems like a conflict of interest when, yes, what exactly is their game plan?
> Is it true that people actually don't care about keeping ownership over their content? Sometimes, it can be good for things. Take parody, for instance. My favorite Medium collection is "CSS Perverts"[1], which is basically really silly, fake articles about programming stuff. Sample article: "How Node.js will replace JavaScript." Because it's on Medium, people are more willing to believe that Jenn is serious, and so…
Why would a billionaire, proven operator and executor raise a round?
If only medium would produce something...other than blog posts...
Same type of questions: what's the difference from other blogging sites? What's the business model? Maybe because of its huge user base? I think all these questions have already been answered though.
"Ideally, Williams envisions Medium much like a magazine creative director, inviting the types of items that may show up in a magazine, from features to top-ten lists to cartoons to even video." Good. The internet needs more top 10 lists.
Top 10 lists might be the lowest form of journalism but accepting articles as top 10 lists allows us to avoid the "fake article that actually is a top 10 list" situation. A nice price to pay.