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No, that's not a little bit Spotify, Patreon, and Pocket. It's just a paywall. Just because Medium is hip doesn't make this a new chill ideaPermalink On twitter.com
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So I'm supposed to pay Medium to curate for me? Than what exactly is the point of Medium? Isn't the social graph supposed to automate this?Permalink On twitter.com
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You know, I didn't think I could be more angry today, but lo and behold: Medium. niemanlab.org/2017/03/media-is-broken-so-mediums-launching-a-5month-member-program-that-offers-small-upgrades/Permalink On twitter.com
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So yeah, this is the exact same model as Every Digital Media company only you're going to do it with more people contributing bad content?Permalink On twitter.com
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And just to be really clear here, Medium is basically saying: "We have no competitive advantage except that people give us free content"Permalink On twitter.com
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Medium isn't close to the first publishing platform to do this. Here's others in the category Medium is entering: Forbes Thought CatalogPermalink On twitter.com
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So welcome to the New Medium everyone: it's going to just be Thought Catalog for the Silicon Valley set.Permalink On twitter.com
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Actually... hahahahahahhahaha... you know what Medium is going to be most like? MTV's College Publisher. Basically the same model.Permalink On twitter.com
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Yes, the lack of Medium-Plus is the only thing that has been holding back writers from the pieces they really wanted to write.Permalink On twitter.com
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Also, nice that Medium has come up with the Series of Different Shaped Boxes layout that every single other media org has been doing.Permalink On twitter.com
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LOLOLOL. So just like the Yahoo News Digest app. Medium is reinventing the Yahoo News Digest app? Or... you know... the newspaper?Permalink On twitter.com
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Sillicon Valley in a nutshell: we've reinvented the three-editions-a-day newspaper, a format we helped destroy, only now it's "satisfying"Permalink On twitter.com
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Do you think at any point in the process of planning at Medium someone was like 'hey doesn't this entire model not make money?'Permalink On twitter.com
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I bet someone did and then another person said "They said that about Facebook" and that shut the conversation down.Permalink On twitter.com
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This whole 'pay for Medium as a newspaper' concept is perhaps, altogether, the least original idea ever to come out of the startupland.Permalink On twitter.com
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Today we hit the mark of Medium's momentum as a hot startup exceeding its biz capability. It's in no-man's-land of well funded uselessness.Permalink On twitter.com
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So what about news orgs using Medium to host their sites? Do they get anything from being 'curated', since they're not getting ad dollars?Permalink On twitter.com
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If a professional publication gets curated into Medium's Hot New Home Page, for which Medium receives money, does the pub get a cut?Permalink On twitter.com
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I can't wait to laugh at the dumb schmuck who buys Medium.On twitter.com
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