Medium.com April 2016 CMS News

https://thebolditalic.com

http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/replies/68035

"Medium is making its pitch for the commercial publishing web. I guess that's where the money is. Best of luck! (I want the bloggers.)" https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/717356855383756801 - but Dave Winer wrote that on Twitter and not on his own blog site. #medium #publishing #writing #media
From: JR's : micro blog - Apr 05, 2016 - reply

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JR: http://www.techmeme.com/160405/p13#a160405p13
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JR: http://mediagazer.com/160405/p12#a160405p12
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JR: http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/5/11362398/medium-for-publishers-the-awl-bill-simmons-the-ringer
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JR: "Starting today, more than a dozen operations — including The Awl, Pacific Standard, and the revived local San Francisco site The Bold Italic — are migrating to Medium. More are on their way later this year, including Simmons' site and new offshoots of Time Inc. magazines Money and Fortune."
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JR: media dorks can finally rest easy with medium's news in recent weeks that medium is a platform. finally, the media has an answer to their question, "what is medium?" the media cannot function without their questions being answered.
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JR: "Medium is offering new design tools for these publishers to customize their sites, custom URLs, and a migration tool to more easily bring the property over to Medium. "
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JR: "It also lined up a handful of brands, including Nest, Bose, and Intel, to create native advertisements that can be found at the bottom of posts from sites published by Medium, with revenue sharing plans in place. "
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JR: "And it's promising to cross-promote stories published on Medium across its network, offering small sites a traffic boost. Aside from splitting ad revenue, there's no cost to publishers for any of these features."
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JR: sounds like a good plan for medium in their long, slow growth idea. medium launched to the public for reading in september 2012, but it was not open to everyone for writing until about a year later. medium has taken a slow approach to development. prob cause they are in it for the long haul.
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JR: some businesses and orgs want to research, write, edit, and publish, and then repeat. they don't have the time to worry about silos and the open web and blah blah blah. they want to get their job done and then move on. medium may make this easier for many orgs. it's not medium's fault.
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JR: hah! here's an example of the media's angst over the media being unable to classify, define, or categorize medium ...
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JR: "This new initiative is a sensible move for Medium, which looks to be on the cusp of solving its identity crisis. Since launching in August 2012, the San Francisco-based company has shifted its focus enough times that it could be hard to discern a master plan." ---- hilarious and so predictable
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http://www.theawl.com/2016/04/i-also-could-have-gone-with-medium-cool

http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/04/medium-gives-publishers-new-ways-to-make-money-instant-articles-and-amp-support-are-on-the-way/

https://medium.com/electric-literature/electric-literature-is-moving-to-medium-433e21cfed69#.19rlsp1l4

http://www.talkingnewmedia.com/2016/04/05/medium-introduces-medium-for-publishers-to-attempt-to-attract-content-producers/

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/04/05/medium-will-let-pay-subscribe-favorite-publications/

https://femsplain.com/making-new-homes-27dbfb2e694c#.bpw28cok8

http://digiday.com/publishers/medium-brings-publishers-including-awl-hairpin/

https://medium.com/the-story/making-medium-more-powerful-for-publishers-39663413a904#.nae6lk59k

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/05/the-awl-and-other-indie-publishers-are-moving-to-medium/

https://medium.com/the-story/revenue-on-medium-5e7e6218f70c#.pxkiajuoh

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/medium-now-way-power-entire-sites-including-ads/

https://psmag.com/introducing-the-new-psmag-com-3309d91fcd6d#.iiq7473d3

https://publishers.medium.com/index.html

http://www.poynter.org/2016/medium-becomes-latest-tech-company-to-lure-publishers-aboard/405247/

https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/717678408130555904

Turns out that Medium is http://Wordpress.com , w/o open source, nicer editor, confusing comments, and no more flow than your own blog.

A gross observation. Confusing comments? Not to me. Medium uses the reply-as-a-blog-post as its "commenting" system. Granted, the margin notes function still exist, but I rarely notice them nor access them when I do see them. Medium started with margin notes or comments. But I like their reply-as-a-blog-post feature.

Medium is more than a nice editor. For publishers who like to earn a living, they like Medium because of the audience size.

#medium