Re:Renewing Medium’s focus
by tonystubblebine on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:30PM
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Just to call it out: innovation is a tactic, not a goal.
I'm pretty sure the goal of people at Medium is to create value and it's not obvious to me how much innovation is required.
For 15 years or more the world has demonstrated a huge appetite for personal publishing: Blogger, MovableType, LiveJournal, WordPress, Twitter, Tumblr.
And in this moment, a lot of those options have not aged well. They haven't stayed particularly current and a lot of them seem institutionally incapable of modernizing.
So, Medium can provide an enormous value just by being the same thing we already know works but done in a modern way.
I'm pretty sure the goal of people at Medium is to create value and it's not obvious to me how much innovation is required.
For 15 years or more the world has demonstrated a huge appetite for personal publishing: Blogger, MovableType, LiveJournal, WordPress, Twitter, Tumblr.
And in this moment, a lot of those options have not aged well. They haven't stayed particularly current and a lot of them seem institutionally incapable of modernizing.
So, Medium can provide an enormous value just by being the same thing we already know works but done in a modern way.