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Why We Are Here => Web Development => Topic started by: rcjordan on January 04, 2017, 09:49:58 PM

Title: Online publishing site Medium to cut 50 jobs, change business model
Post by: rcjordan on January 04, 2017, 09:49:58 PM
The company's ad-driven publishing model was "becoming an extension of a broken system", Chief Executive Evan Williams wrote

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-medium-layoffs-idUSKBN14O27F

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-04/twitter-co-founder-ev-williams-medium-cuts-one-third-of-staff
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That the one you like, ergophobe?
Title: Re: Online publishing site Medium to cut 50 jobs, change business model
Post by: ergophobe on January 04, 2017, 10:37:18 PM
What do you mean by is that the one I like?

The whole Medium phenom has always sort of escaped me. I'm curious to see what it means to reward people for creating value rather than clickbait. Clickbait is easy to measure and reward. How will they measure "value" I wonder.
Title: Re: Online publishing site Medium to cut 50 jobs, change business model
Post by: rcjordan on January 04, 2017, 10:50:45 PM
I thought you mentioned that you read there regularly. 

>reward people for creating value rather than clickbait

He's living in a dream world.
Title: Re: Online publishing site Medium to cut 50 jobs, change business model
Post by: ergophobe on January 05, 2017, 02:10:00 AM
Lots of stuff on Medium pops up in Pocket or various other aggregators, but I don't make any special effort to go there.

>>I thought you mentioned that you read there regularly.

Wouldn't surprise me. Personally, I never believe anything I say.
Title: Re: Online publishing site Medium to cut 50 jobs, change business model
Post by: ukgimp on January 05, 2017, 10:36:20 AM
For me, it's one I grab the UN of in case one day I need it.

Not core.