{"id":5456,"date":"2016-02-16T19:53:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5456"},"modified":"2016-02-08T19:54:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:54:56","slug":"linked-anywhere-but-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/02\/16\/linked-anywhere-but-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: “Anywhere but Medium”"},"content":{"rendered":"

via Dave Winer\u2019s Scripting<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I guess the thought is that it’s wasteful to start a blog if you’re not sure you’re going to post that often. It’s something of a paradox, because blogs are not large things on the storage devices of the hosting companies. If they’re doing it right, a blog is smaller than the PNG image in the right margin of this post. They’re tiny little things in a world filled with videos and podcasts and even humble images. Text is very very very small in comparison.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

Because I cross-post my stories to Medium through RSS, you will be able to read this there. I guess they won’t recommend it. It probably won’t appear on the front page of Medium. See there’s the other problem with ceding a whole content type to a single company. Since you’re counting on them not just to store your writing, but also build flow for it, the inclination is to praise them, to withhold criticism.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

I only want to point to things that I think have a chance at existing years from now. And things that are reasonably unconflicted, where I feel I understand where the author is coming from.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

We can avoid this, it’s not too late. You have a choice. Post your writing to places other than Medium. And when you see something that’s interesting and not on Medium, give it some extra love.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

Is it necessary that a Silicon Valley tech company own every media type? Can we reserve competition in the middle of the web, so we get a chance for some of the power of an open platform for the most basic type of creativity — writing?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dave Winer is a smart guy. He\u2019s been around for a while and has seen this happen before. Dave remembers Mahalo, Digg, Google Reader, Delicious, Blogger, Livejournal. I remember them all as well and we know that centralized media owned by one company is a bad idea. It always fails and your writing goes away with it.<\/p>\n

Blogging is so old-school now. Yet, it\u2019s the only place on the web that I own my server, my connection to it and the content on it. It\u2019s mine and I can put anything I want here. Maybe no one will read it but it\u2019s mine. That\u2019s a very rare thing today. Go read Dave\u2019s blog and support an independent writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Dave Winer\u2019s Scripting: I guess the thought is that it’s wasteful to start a blog if you’re…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T01:59:26Z","apple_news_api_id":"fd5fa5cf-9741-458d-81d5-958c62954c56","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T01:59:26Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A_V-lz5dBRY2B1ZWMYpVMVg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1q0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8481,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2021\/03\/25\/linked-the-mess-at-medium\/","url_meta":{"origin":5456,"position":0},"title":"Linked: The Mess at Medium","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Via The Verge:\u00a0 Worse, the data suggested that Medium\u2019s original journalism was not converting free readers to paid subscribers. 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