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WINNERS AND SINNERS, RECAPPED
Why I’m Live-Blogging Medium Day Events on Saturday, August 12
I’m here to help if you want to learn from its speakers but promised to take the kids to Chuck E. Cheese then
Medium has bushwhacked a lot of territory in the blogosphere.
It’s given bloggers a way to get paid for their stories. It’s created a clean, ad-free space for their posts. It’s seamlessly integrated into the platform the Unsplash library of more than five million photos, which makes it easy to upload high-quality royalty-free images.
But Medium trails much of the blogosphere in one respect. It hasn’t embraced live-blogging, the real-time posting of stories about an unfolding event, such as a TV show, a natural disaster, or the tallying of results from around the country on Election night.
Medium potentates know how engaging and live-blogging can be: They’ve given a prominent spot to @LizaDonnelly, a writer and cartoonist for The New Yorker, who has uploaded to Medium her sparkling “live-drawings” of events such as the Academy Awards and the Jan. 6 hearings.
Would Medium benefit from more near-real-time stories? I hope to find out on Medium Day, Aug. 12, when I’ll live-blog highlights…
