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Can anyone post a summary? Obnoxious ID/paywall obscures almost the entirety of the article.

• n4bz0r 5y ago
  It's a bit hard to do so as the article is all over the place. Aside from laying out the overall history of blogging, author tells how blogging enhances his writing. A couple of quotes: > The availability of a deep, digital, searchable, published and public archive of my thoughts turns habits that would otherwise be time-wasters — or even harmful — into something valuable. > Blogging isn’t just a way to organize your research — it’s a way to do research for a book or essay or story or speech you don’t even know you want to write yet. It’s a way to discover what your future books and essays and stories and speeches will be about. The entire article: https://pastebin.com/c128TpGw https://pastebin.com/c128TpGw
  • publicola1990 5y ago
    Thanks.
• hiichbindermax 5y ago
  Delete your cookies for medium. Or even better, don't allow the website to set any and you should be able to read most content there. Otherwise a private session could also help?
  • jraph 5y ago
    Disabling Javascript is a very easy way to deal with Medium. uBlock Origin is your friend. I call this "progressive degradation" (have a perfect baseline, and degrade it with more advanced technology). [1,2,3] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20898947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20898947 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23874802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23874802 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23108022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23108022
• rkachowski 5y ago
  Here's my attempt. Brand building is bullshit, the real benefit for authors in regular blogging is to focus ideas to the point where your next book / article / essay is already clear in your mind. It also works as research into a topic. Private blogging is more like a log file, public blogging requires more discipline. A memex machine was designed to expand memories, a set of searchable private and public blog / text files works the same. The author has done this all his life and was able to produce a 1500 word essay with over 20 references in an hour.
  • publicola1990 5y ago
    Thanks.
• wcerfgba 5y ago
  Seems kind of ironic to me that Doctorow would publish on Medium.
  • abdullahkhalids 5y ago
    It does seem contrary to the general principles he fights for. He just started it this month https://doctorow.medium.com/about https://doctorow.medium.com/about Some of what is on this blog is also available on https://pluralistic.net/ https://pluralistic.net/, but not this particular piece, which was published 6 days ago. Not sure why. It's genuine though https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1393620868597620738?s=20 https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1393620868597620738?s=20
  • input_sh 5y ago
    Considering he also published a whole "book" there[0], I think there's a financial incentive. [0] https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59 https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capit...
• DennisP 5y ago
  https://archive.is/m9dty https://archive.is/m9dty
• FriedrichN 5y ago
  Allowing only first party CSS/images works for me, which is my default mode anyhow.
• ______- 5y ago
  > Can anyone post a summary? Obnoxious ID/paywall obscures almost the entirety of the article. First paragraph: > I’ve been a blogger for a little more than 20 years and in that time I’ve written a little more than 20 books: novels for adults; novels for teens; short story collections; essay collections; graphic novels for adults, highschoolers and middle-schoolers; a picture-book for small children, and book-length nonfiction on various subjects. I’ve written and delivered some hundreds of speeches as well, for several kinds of technical and non-technical audience, as well as for young kids and teens. https://www.outline.com/764w9T https://www.outline.com/764w9T