Publishing on the web is changing drastically. Medium is one of these few companies which are building the future of publishing and reading. We're excited to join forces with them and continue building the open web in this new era!
We shouldn't wait for Medium
Medium has to create a miracle in the economics of publishing. But the users of Medium just want an easy and elegant blogging system. It doesn't seem like a match, long-term.
Medium vs. Own Blog: What Actually Drives SaaS Traffic
Where to publish something has becoming a difficult decision for a lot of businesses. You read so many stories about using various channels to distribute content and grow traffic, it’s hard to know what does and doesn’t work. Medium, in particular, has become a major player in the world of startup content, but is it really that great?
Medium has been great for us
More readers, wider distribution, new audiences. An enjoyable place to write. Win, win, win. Win. Just about a year ago we switched this blog, Signal vs. Noise, to Medium. Here’s the post announcin…
Death by a thousand likes: How Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web
Here’s one way to understand the symbiotic relationship between publications and platforms in the digital age. Publications depend on advertising dollars to keep producing content, so they need to hold readers’ attention. Big platforms like Facebook and Twitter already have plenty of attention, but they need vast quantities of content to fill up their newsfeeds. It seems natural, then, that publications have started relying on platforms to drive readership.
How to write Medium stories people will actually read
More than 30 million people use Medium each month. They come here in search of something worth reading. Something substantial. And you can give it to them. Medium’s algorithms put you on a level playing field. Your stories can dominate news feeds. Yo...
Chad Kohalyk (@chadkoh@indieweb.social)
Web publishing is facing its next challenge: a new iteration of centralizing platforms. BUT there is also a new wave of open protocols and standards that can help us gain our independence. Next month in NYC we are gathering a group of frontier technologists and popular web publishers to discuss how we can sail into this next platform shift as captains. #ProtocolsForPublishers https://pfp.unternet.co
Building trust in the open
How Protocols for Publishers points to the future of journalism – and the web
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Writing, newsletters, blogging, and reader-growth tools built to help creators publish on the open web and keep direct relationships with their audience.
Inside Medium: an attempt to bring civility to the internet
Long-form writing site Medium has become a megaphone for the powerful and powerless alike - the BBC meets its creator.
Medium: Read and write stories.
On Medium, anyone can share insightful perspectives, useful knowledge, and life wisdom with the world.
eLife receives Wellcome boost to build open publishing ecosystem
The new investment will back development of collaborative publishing tools and services for the benefit of the global scholarly community.
Medium's Evan Williams To Publishers: Your Website Is Toast
Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Websites are in about the same place as dinosaurs were at the tail end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago. Which is to say, about to go extinct. So says Evan Williams, a confounder of Twitter and Blogger and now CEO of Medium, the publishing platform he [...]
Matter
Matter brings newsletters, feeds, and read-later into one beautiful interface. It’s the ultimate reading client for the open web.
