the startupist
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Ghost is on a mission to simplify blogging. It is funding now on Kickstarter.
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New Gawker looks very Medium. New Gawker also supports the theory of annotations as the new comments.
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Medium “comments” as notations in correspondence to specific paragraphs.
Smart. Kind of Branch-y though, no?
Medium, upon cursory review, actually appears to be inventing the future of blogging.
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Quora's Inevitable "Blog Here" Announcement Small changes and tweaks to Quora’s Q&A community over the past few months have led many to speculate that blogging would become an inevitable core feature of the Quora experience.
There was a time when bloggers had to cultivate and grow their own audience around their blog. With Quora, an interested audience awaits (selected statistics shown below). An interested audience with fingers. Fingers with the ability to downvote your post. So blog on Quora - but make sure whatever you write is worth reading.
Quora is following a greater trend in “pre-cultivated audience” blogging. Interesting startups in the same general space pursuing related goals in different ways include Medium, Branch, Svbtle, and Tumblr (loosely).
RELATED: Even though I like it, won’t be using Quora for blogging. Brad McCarty from TheNextWeb won’t be either. Here’s why.
