My Medium Cheat Sheet

I enjoy reading and spending time browsing Medium and writing in it. I use it as my blog, as my go to source for exciting news, opinions, idea centre, topic reading, a lot.

But writing and sharing information and getting around in Medium is not necessarily very…

One of those serious musings that provoke thoughts, this time on the “medium” itself. This is an intriguing take on writing and reading in Medium, essentially emphasises that not many people use it and notes are not same as comments.

About notes, as a user, I haven’t thought of this granular difference between comments and…

Thoughts on interacting in Medium from a user’s perspective

Rachel Baxter wrote a comment on Medium’s potential using direct messaging. In Medium, it is possible to post direct responses at the level of ideas. If you think of a document as an organisation of streams of idea, and each…

A beautiful meditation on the future direction of Twitter but the article goes beyond that. The possibilities that Dash describes about the “Internet of things” and increasingly “Internet of Me” (not mentioned in the article but might as well be) are eye openers. For instance, Twitter as a stream of messages that flow in as devices talk to each and…

Writing in Medium, and what if Medium walks away one fine morning?

Greg Storey writes here a very nice epiphany/meditation in the form of conversations on web writing and writing on Medium as such. Thinking about cross posting contents and sharing on Medium and elsewhere, I was…

Seriously, twitter?

I can understand that the limits to how much one can write is set at 140 chracters. Brevity is the soul of wit. But this is…

Medium encourages critical thoughts

The other thing is, your thought hatches new ideas. This is new. From movable types we now have movable thoughts.

This is a very good article on why you should write on Medium. I certainly see a lot of value in using Medium every day and have started moving my writings here. It is free, allows free form long writing, beautiful professionally done interface, easiest interface to write, wysiwyr (what you see is what you write) interface, and all for free.