This article by Alexis Mardrigal talks about a year old project by the co-founders of twitter that still remains unknown. Medium is like a blog but done with the intention to narrow down the content and and for people to share ideas, "designed for little stories that make your day better and manifestos that change the world." Madrigal talks about how Medium recently has been gaining some power, and mentions the five latest posts that circulated widely on the web. She says the two of the articles were impressive and two were not, the fifth one seemed like it did not belong to the site. A couple of the articles on medium are driven towards it, the producers of medium pay a few of the writers to currently submit their work and a few articles are freely submitted, although the website is invite-only access to post. The author explains her outside view on the strategy of Medium, by being more than a blog, and having bigger objectives such as substituting magazines in the future.
This article is really well composed, and has a lot of reasearch and thought put into. The author does an analysis of the website Medium providing her opinion on what the website is and what it is becoming. This shows the credibility and research of the article. It is an informative article, although it is very opinion centered. The attention getter is very effective, it mentions a very known social media today, Twitter, and it works as an attention magnet in the subtitle of the article also. In general the body paragraphs are really well done, except the fact that they are a bit disorganized, the order should be separated in opinion and explanation of the website. The conclusion is weird for the fact that it leaves questions so the reader can form his own opinion, after stating her opinion throughout the whole essay.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/what-is-medium/278965/
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