Try reading this article replacing Medium with posterous/tumblr/subvtle/Google +/Wordpress Yes, and? The point remains the same and remains valid, it just appl

Try reading this article replacing Medium with posterous/tumblr/subvtle/Google +/Wordpress Yes, and? The point remains the same and remains valid, it just applies to more than just medium: if you don't host it yourself, it might disappear tomorrow, no natural catastrophe necessary, simply because it's the choice of people other than you. The content publishing is a commodity, nothing revolutionary or wrong with it. For me there is nothing right with it. We're not talking about the expensive and heavy printing presses of old; everybody should have at least one of them new-fangled ones, of not a dozen, just because hey why not.