{"id":2304,"date":"2012-08-23T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/08\/23\/as-dave-winer-noted-medium-does-content\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:57","slug":"as-dave-winer-noted-medium-does-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/08\/23\/as-dave-winer-noted-medium-does-content\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>As Dave Winer noted, Medium does content categorization upside down: \u201cInstead of adding a category to a post, you add a post to a category.\u201d He means collection in Medium-speak, but you get the idea: Topic triumphs over author. Medium doesn\u2019t want you to read something because of who wrote it; Medium wants you to read something because of what it\u2019s about. And because of the implicit promise that Medium = quality.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2012\/08\/13-ways-of-looking-at-medium-the-new-bloggingsharingdiscovery-platform-from-ev-and-obvious\/\">13 ways of looking at Medium, the new blogging\/sharing\/discovery platform from @ev and Obvious\u00a0\u00bb Nieman Journalism Lab<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Blogging for its relevance to project SAKE, where I am also struggling with finding alternative\u00a0organizational\u00a0schemes for\u00a0contributions\u00a0from players. A stream metaphor seems wrong. Also, we really want to incentivize quality over quantity (or frequency) of posts. Medium might have gotten a few things right, there.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Dave Winer noted, Medium does content categorization upside down: \u201cInstead of adding a category to a post, you add a post to a category.\u201d He means collection in Medium-speak, but you get the idea: Topic triumphs over author. Medium doesn\u2019t want you to read something because of who wrote it; Medium wants you to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/08\/23\/as-dave-winer-noted-medium-does-content\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[982],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-sake","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}