Medium, Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama & Me
Thursday, February 07, 2019
Every once in a while I feel the glee of having a commonality that few would understand.
Consider that today I found out that I have three things in
common with the richest man on earth, Jeff Bezos. He is white, a man and writes
in the blogging platform called Medium. I write in Medium, too.
If that were not enough I have two things in common with
former American President, Barack Obama. He is a man and he writes for Medium.
Today Jeff Bezos posted this startling essay in Medium on a man called Mr. Pecker.
And as President, Obama wrote this:
While I have been blogging since Jan 2006 (4668 of them)
some years ago I read in my NY Times that there was an unusual blogging platform
called Medium that had been started by a former employee of Twitter. In fact
one of the requirements of Medium is to have a Twitter account. What makes
Medium and exciting and unusual blogging platform is its far more modern (than
my Google-owned Blogger) platform that provides analytics on how many people
look, glance, or actually write what you write in Medium. Notice in the link to
the Bezos essay that it has at the top left an indicator 9 Min Read. The
platform determines how long a possible reader stays on what you have written
and based on that you will know that while 50 people might have seen what your
wrote and the picture included but that in actual fact only 15 read it.
Medium has a handy
importing tool that means that I can import any of my Blogger blogs and then
modify it (if I want to ) once it is in Medium.
In the first year of Medium some of us could start a personal
publication. I have several. My most
popular one is this one:
Some people monetize their personal blogs. I don’t. Blogging keeps me safely at home
with my Rosemary and out of trouble.
But today I kind of feel happy that I share Medium with two
notable men.
