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Sometime back someone invited me to Medium and I am yet to try this out. I am still confused by to why I should try it out. Some questions I have: My domain (

by Cherian 13y ago

Sometime back someone invited me to Medium and I am yet to try this out. I am still confused by to why I should try it out. Some questions I have: My domain (website) represents an exercise in credibility, branding and personality [1]. Why should I move to Medium? Some people who write on Medium tell me the sheer number of views they get encourages them to write. Some have mentioned around 20K views in 3-4 hours. But this is a factor of “Editors pick” which will soon hit flooding issues and the rich gets richer issues in the front page. Can they ensure continuous coverage at this level ? Some time from now they’ll have to make money. They’ll charge you, run ads or sell to another company. This might not be in sync with your ideology. I pay $6 on prgrmr. Cheap enough. Is this acceptable to you? I agree maintaining a domain is more hard work than writing on medium but the feeling of “I own it” is incredible. Don’t you feel the same? If distraction free writing were the USP, I’d recommend my co-founder’s iaWriter [2]. It does not publish directly and that’s a big negative. Isn’t this good enough? [1]: http://www.gigpeppers.com/ http://www.gigpeppers.com/ [2]: http://www.iawriter.com/ http://www.iawriter.com/

lmm 13y ago
>My domain (website) represents an exercise in credibility, branding and personality [1]. Why should I move to Medium? If you care about that kind of thing and are good at it you probably shouldn't. Medium maintains its own credible brand, which is a godsend for someone who just wants to write, and not worry about design, branding or personality. >Some people who write on Medium tell me the sheer number of views they get encourages them to write. Some have mentioned around 20K views in 3-4 hours. But this is a factor of “Editors pick” which will soon hit flooding issues and the rich gets richer issues in the front page. Can they ensure continuous coverage at this level ? Of course they can't ensure anything. But you have xx potential readers (in a more immediate fashion than the way you have 1 million potential readers for anything you put on the web). For some people that helps. >Some time from now they’ll have to make money. They’ll charge you, run ads or sell to another company. This might not be in sync with your ideology. I pay $6 on prgrmr. Cheap enough. Is this acceptable to you? I have my own copies of everything I write. If medium brings in changes a year from now and I have to move somewhere different, it's no big. That it might go away at some time is no reason not to enjoy its benefits now. >I agree maintaining a domain is more hard work than writing on medium but the feeling of “I own it” is incredible. Don’t you feel the same? Nope. I want to write, and to be read, but I'd be happy to do so anonymously. It's not something I do to build up my personal brand or anything like that.
StavrosK 13y ago
This is completely off topic, but where did this "I am yet" nonsense spawn from? It's completely wrong, since you don't say "I amn't seen it yet", you say "I haven't seen it yet", therefore "I have yet to see it". Is it one of those things that people get wrong to sound more educated, like overusing "whom"?
- brianmcc 13y ago
  Interesting question - having always used the expression "I'm yet to do XXX" I didn't even realise how odd it might look to those unfamiliar with it. It's pretty standard English IMO, certain nothing I'd consider affectatious the way the use of whom absolutely can be. Some discussion here: http://www.englishforums.com/English/Versus/djxxm/post.htm http://www.englishforums.com/English/Versus/djxxm/post.htm including "I am yet to..." and "I have yet to..." express exactly the same sentiment. The use of "am" in this context is a throwback to the now obsolete use of "to be" as the auxiliary verb in the present perfect conjugation of certain verbs. Eg, I am come. Languages such as German and French continue to use both "to be" and "to have" as auxiliary verbs. "I have come" translates in German to "ich bin gekommen" and in French to "je suis venu".
  - StavrosK 13y ago
    Hmm, that's interesting, thanks for the link. "I am yet" looks completely foreign to me, and it doesn't help that I haven't managed to find any definitive citation on the matter. However, it does appear from a cursory search that you are right, and the two have slightly different meanings.

by Cherian 13y ago

lmm 13y ago

>My domain (website) represents an exercise in credibility, branding and personality [1]. Why should I move to Medium? If you care about that kind of thing and are good at it you probably shouldn't. Medium maintains its own credible brand, which is a godsend for someone who just wants to write, and not worry about design, branding or personality. >Some people who write on Medium tell me the sheer number of views they get encourages them to write. Some have mentioned around 20K views in 3-4 hours. But this is a factor of “Editors pick” which will soon hit flooding issues and the rich gets richer issues in the front page. Can they ensure continuous coverage at this level ? Of course they can't ensure anything. But you have xx potential readers (in a more immediate fashion than the way you have 1 million potential readers for anything you put on the web). For some people that helps. >Some time from now they’ll have to make money. They’ll charge you, run ads or sell to another company. This might not be in sync with your ideology. I pay $6 on prgrmr. Cheap enough. Is this acceptable to you? I have my own copies of everything I write. If medium brings in changes a year from now and I have to move somewhere different, it's no big. That it might go away at some time is no reason not to enjoy its benefits now. >I agree maintaining a domain is more hard work than writing on medium but the feeling of “I own it” is incredible. Don’t you feel the same? Nope. I want to write, and to be read, but I'd be happy to do so anonymously. It's not something I do to build up my personal brand or anything like that.

StavrosK 13y ago

This is completely off topic, but where did this "I am yet" nonsense spawn from? It's completely wrong, since you don't say "I amn't seen it yet", you say "I haven't seen it yet", therefore "I have yet to see it". Is it one of those things that people get wrong to sound more educated, like overusing "whom"?

brianmcc 13y ago
Interesting question - having always used the expression "I'm yet to do XXX" I didn't even realise how odd it might look to those unfamiliar with it. It's pretty standard English IMO, certain nothing I'd consider affectatious the way the use of whom absolutely can be. Some discussion here: http://www.englishforums.com/English/Versus/djxxm/post.htm http://www.englishforums.com/English/Versus/djxxm/post.htm including "I am yet to..." and "I have yet to..." express exactly the same sentiment. The use of "am" in this context is a throwback to the now obsolete use of "to be" as the auxiliary verb in the present perfect conjugation of certain verbs. Eg, I am come. Languages such as German and French continue to use both "to be" and "to have" as auxiliary verbs. "I have come" translates in German to "ich bin gekommen" and in French to "je suis venu".
- StavrosK 13y ago
  Hmm, that's interesting, thanks for the link. "I am yet" looks completely foreign to me, and it doesn't help that I haven't managed to find any definitive citation on the matter. However, it does appear from a cursory search that you are right, and the two have slightly different meanings.