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Slightly off topic, but the fact that the world's richest man who owns a tech giant chose to publish this on a closed platform like Medium should be worrisome f
by romanovtexas 8y ago
Slightly off topic, but the fact that the world's richest man who owns a tech giant chose to publish this on a closed platform like Medium should be worrisome for the future of the open web. On the other hand, this might just be the biggest brand endorsement for Medium till date.
- danso 8y agoI mean, Amazon doesn't really have an associated "official" blogging platform, not in the way that Google has Blogger, Yahoo has Tumblr, and Twitter has Medium. Also worth noting that Amazon's spokesperson used Medium when writing a rebuttal to a high-profile investigation of Amazon's business practices in 2015: https://medium.com/@jaycarney/what-the-new-york-times-didn-t-tell-you-a1128aa78931 https://medium.com/@jaycarney/what-the-new-york-times-didn-t...
- romanovtexas 8y agoBlogger and Tumblr aren't like Medium; maybe a good comparison for them would be Wordpress. Twitter's official blog isn't on Medium. So doesn't "have" it - blog.twitter.com
- mejari 8y agoOnly HN could turn Jeff Bezos publicly outing a company attempting to extort him with naked photos into a threat to the "future of the open web".
- WrtCdEvrydy 8y agoThis is good for bitcoin?
- romanovtexas 8y agoI mean, he's talking about journalistic standards. Having an open web is crucial for having good journalism on the web.
- buboard 8y agofor all its faults medium is not a closed garden
- romanovtexas 8y agoIt has a paywall, forces users to have an account to read the stories published on the platform. It's not a champion of the open web, either. http://scripting.com/liveblog/users/davewiner/2016/01/20/0900.html http://scripting.com/liveblog/users/davewiner/2016/01/20/090...
- buboard 8y agoa signup wall, the content is still available though i agree that they are becoming increasingly annoying