I guess this is the direct counter-argument to my comment in the thread about Svtle.<p>Is it true that people actually don't care about keeping ownership over their content? I find it so strange that these services which are pitched directly at people who consider themselves to be brilliant also become the archive for your stuff. It just seems like a conflict of interest when, yes, what exactly is their game plan?
Most of the posts on medium are so poorly written or blatantly false I just avoid the whole domain now. So in my eyes they have a lot of work to do to fix their branding.
"Ideally, Williams envisions Medium much like a magazine creative director, inviting the types of items that may show up in a magazine, from features to top-ten lists to cartoons to even video."<p>Good. The internet needs more top 10 lists.
I think mediums UI is nice, but as far as i can tell, you cant include code snippets so its almost useless for blogging about programming - until the change that, I am going to continue to use jekyll.
So, you can type text into a box and people can comment on it. And it has a nice font.<p>My startup idea is that we sell chairs, but the chairs are nicer than some other chairs and they say 'chair' on them. Can I get $25 million too?
The cool thing is Ev is rich enough now to pay back the full $25M personally if he decides to pull another Odeo/Twitter.<p>...though I imagine most investors will keep their money in play this time :-)