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Medium, a blog good enough for presidential candidates and billionaires

sudshr47 March 8, 2019

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Medium has reinvented itself many times over, but one facet of its identity seems to be sticking: it’s becoming the writing platform of choice for billionaires, billionaire politicians, and anti-billionaire politicians alike.

On Friday, senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren published a blog post on Medium with her plan to break up Big Tech, including Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Gotta love the use of a tech platform to call out the tech industry.

But this wasn’t the first time eyeballs flocked to Medium for a major — if slightly more salacious — announcement. In February, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos chose Medium to make his bombshell announcement that the National Enquirer was trying to blackmail him with dick pics, and that he was not afraid! Read more…

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Medium buys Bay Area mag The Bold Italic to add to its paywall

sudshr47 February 12, 2019

Medium is seeking to juice up its premium subscription content in its home market with the acquisition of The Bold Italic. The 10-year-old online culture magazine will go behind the $5 per month Medium Membership paywall. The deal will keep The Bold Italic afloat when other San Francisco-local publications have struggled, following the shutdown of […]

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Medium’s latest pivot leaves some independent media in the lurch

sudshr47 May 10, 2018

Medium has abruptly pulled a feature that allowed publishers to operate paywalls on its platform, leaving some independent media scrambling for alternative options to maintain a crucial source of revenue. The company this week shuttered a two-year program that let media run paid subscription services on its site. Nieman Lab reports that Medium contacted its 21 remaining […]

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Medium pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony in the best way possible

sudshr47 April 14, 2018

It’s been a very long week for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Dude survived over 10 hours of Congress grilling him on the Cambridge Analytica scandal that has rocked the world.
But is his skin thick enough to brush off all the jokes derived from his c…

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Medium is now paying partners cash bonuses for quality work

sudshr47 March 22, 2018

A year ago, publishing platform Medium debuted a new business model where readers could pay a monthly fee to access exclusive, curated content, and would reward participating partners by offering a revenue share based on a metrics like time spent reading and the more explicit “claps” – Medium’s form of the “Like.” Now, Medium will […]

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt wrote an actual 2,000-word essay defending Luke Skywalker

sudshr47 January 18, 2018

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Despite the overwhelmingly positive reviews, The Last Jedi was still a pretty divisive film.

The portrayal of Luke Skywalker’s character, in particular, seems to have drummed fans into a kind of rage-fuelled frenzy of debate. Was it true to Luke’s character to act the way he did? Was his role badly written?

Even Mark Hamill himself waded in.

The point is, people have pretty strong opinions when it comes to Star Wars.

And Joseph Gordon-Levitt is no exception.

I finally saw #TheLastJedi (okay involuntary BB-8 emoji). Then got sucked down a rabbit hole reading people’s starkly differing opinions about it. Couldn’t help it, had to wade in. So I wrote a thing here… https://t.co/ct3YOgJfgL

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt (@hitRECordJoe) January 16, 2018 Read more…

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