My Medium.com Rant
Friday, September 11, 2015
On November 9, 2013 I read this http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/business/a-founder-of-twitter-goes-long.html in my NY Times. I was intrigued and I joined. By then I had written over 3000 daily blogs for my Blogger blog which I had started in January 2006. I would modify some of my blogs and re-post them into Medium. Every once in a while I did this backwards and wrote something in Medium and re posted it into my blog.
It was fun.
I particularly enjoyed Medium’s statistics which told you if people had only
glanced at your posting or actually read it. Like Blogger but much more
detailed you could see where people came to see your blog. As of late I have
noticed that entry to my Blogger blog is through Facebook and that Facebook is
also important with Medium. Medium makes it easy to post your individual essay’s
URL into Twitter and Facebook with two simple clicks.
I do not
in any way hope that Medium will give me fame and fortune. I do it for fun. It
gives my day and life as a retired magazine photographer a bit of a routine of
order. I believe that the photographs in my Medium essays are some of the best.
At the very least they are mine and I do not appropriate them from elsewhere. I
have done my best to not mimic the recent trend in newspaper headers for
articles that are questions such as, “Is Clinton now toast?” with the almost
universal equivalents that trend in Medium.
One recent
godsend was something called Import Story by which with the placing in a window
your blog’s coordinates it would magically appear in Medium and you are given
lots of control to modify it, change your pictures and move it around.
Sometimes this feature does not work too well but I have found roundabout ways
to do what I want in spite of the snags.
The folks
at Medium do not resist to attempt to improve your experience and tinker with stuff. In one of these
misguided (to me) bits of tinkering people who read your essay can now
highlight paragraphs and sentences. I have yet to attempt to remove this (to
me) defacement of my copy. I don’t understand this feature. That I am not
under 30 but over 70 (in fact I am 73) might explain this.
When you
have 3600 Blogger blogs and you find that quite a few of these might be
modified to run in Medium you might happily take advantage of Import Story.
But no more
to the many Uh –oh! I get when I attempt to open my statistics (Medium cannot
seem to cope with my at least 150 postings) I now have one Uh-oh! that has been in
effect for two days. It is the image above that tells me that I am toast for
one day.
As to what a Medium day is I am in confusion. It's been two already.
As to what a Medium day is I am in confusion. It's been two already.
