The past week or so I’ve enjoyed writing on Medium.com. I mentioned a post about Tina Fey’s “Bossypants as Startup Bible” here before, and since then I’ve written two more:
eBay’s Sublime Terror: Staring down the precipice while hunting Babylon 5 DVDs
and
Barnes & Noble’s real problem: In praise of chunky scale
Medium.com is a wonderful, collaborative, clean, well-lighted place to write, and it’s fantastic to have the comments juxtaposed next to particular paragraphs rather than as floppy addenda at the end of a post.
I also love the curation, the community, and was tickled to be listed in the Editor’s Picks.
On the downside, why can’t it be easier to have what I write there cross-posted over here, to my own website? Surely it should be easy enough for them to create a “share this post on wordpress” button at the bottom of the page right next to the “share this post on Twitter” and “share this post on Facebook” buttons?
Convergence, the dream of the first wave internet pioneers before the dotpocalypse of 2000, is still just a dream.
Along these lines, I’m taking Rebelmouse for a test drive to see if it’s a good aggregator of my stuff online, as well as, perhaps, a replacement for iGoogle before it goes away in November.
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