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Twitter co-founders create online publishing site

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Went along with Ev before on free podcasting with Odeo, but then everything was deleted when they started Twitter. Brand loyalty should be mutual. Medium.com sounds interesting, but how will it differ from blogs and, by the same token, how will quality be improved after the quantity increases yet again with the ease of self-publishing? The key may be in just how users will be able to work with others. The Web has succeeded as an academic publishing medium to the extent that academic standards and ethics have been maintained, but there continue to be problems of duplication and changing URLs that break links and confuse original sources. Incidentally, the word "media" is the plural of "medium." The news media also stand on the rigor of their editing, but they serve different masters and end up inciting conflicts or dishing out celeb gossip because people supposedly want that (how did they know?). Still the point is that self-publishing equates with neither news nor academic publishing because of the lack of expert review. We shall see if anything significant comes of Medium.com besides teaching people the singular form of the word "media."

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Logged in with my Twitter account and saw the info from which this article by AFP was drawn. Biz Stone reminds us that they also started Blogger. Ev gave some hint about the shape of http://www.medium.com: "Collections give people context and structure to publish their own stories, photos, and ideas. By default, the highest-rated posts show up at the top." (Not too bright either to log into JT with my FB account, ever to go "where angels fear to tread"). Now we need a reason to view or start a "collection." This is a public service announcement.

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