Medium as an RSS reader

As you may know, you can now read my posts on Medium thanks to their relatively new API, and support for it in IFTTT.

Yesterday I got a message from Mike Jones on Twitter: “FWIW now everything publishes to Medium I’ve returned to reading everything you publish. Just like pre-death-of-Google-reader.”

Two observations:

1. Medium can play the role of an RSS reader, at least how I, and my readers use it. They might want to develop that feature by directly supporting RSS, and allowing updates to posts to flow through to their version of a story. If, for example, I were to make a change to this story after Medium picked it up, those changes would not appear on Medium.
2. Google really hurt the blogosphere with the dominance of Reader and then its shutdown. It’s good to pay attention to that now. When you start relying on a dominant product, everything is good, because it hasn’t gone away yet. You don’t feel the pain until it goes away.