With the proliferation of new publishing platforms — and not just blogs or social networks, but also all-digital publishers like Medium, LinkedIn and the Huffington Post — how does a writer decide where they should put their work? Read more »
Evan Williams sees Medium, the blogging platform that he and Biz Stone launched last year, as a modern-day magazine. While Medium will eventually open to everyone, Williams said he wants the site to be “a great place for professional writers.” Read more »
Obvious, the company that came from Twitter co-founders and launched companies like Blogger and Twitter, is back in full force. The founders explained that the biggest venture, Medium, will now be operating independently. Read more at GigaOM »
Medium’s editorial strategy might be rounding into shape with the hiring of Evan Hansen, formerly of Wired, to work on Twitter founder Evan Williams’ new venture. Read more »
Just when many people seemed to think it was dead, new ventures like Svbtle and Medium are trying to reinvent blogging by adding curation and other elements. How they plan to monetize their content, however, remains a mystery. Read more »
An unlikely startup accelerator has cropped up in San Francisco Monday, aimed at tackling the big problems in journalism and media from a Silicon Valley perspective, where entrepreneurs aim to change how people consume information and aren’t afraid to fail. Read more at GigaOM »
Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter and the company’s former CEO during the beginning of its evolution from a side project into a major social-media entity, says that the influence of the network’s ecosystem has been overstated. But is that true? Read more at GigaOM »
Evan Williams and Biz Stone have launched a new web-publishing platform called Medium that they hope will be part of a reinvention of digital content. But apart from founders with a great pedigree, it’s not immediately clear what Medium offers that other services don’t. Read more at GigaOM »
What we know about Bilton’s new book deal. Read more »
It’s official: The last of Twitter’s founding triumvirate is stepping down from full-time duties at the 140-character phenom. Biz Stone is l… Read more »
Twitter COO Dick Costolo will take over as CEO, the company just announced, as current CEO Evan Williams steps aside in order to be “complet… Read more »
Twitter’s purchase of Twitter iPhone client Tweetie last week, along with its launch of a Blackberry app, have raised concerns among develop… Read more »
Watching Twitter CEO Ev Williams on stage at South by Southwest Interactive is a reminder that it’s still a work in progress — and watching… Read more »
Thought I was going to get away with twittering, not posting, about the first session of D7, the annual Kara Swisher-Walt Mossberg conferenc… Read more »
The rapid growth of micro-blogging service Twitter over the past year has led to endless speculation about the company’s future, from how it… Read more »
