Ev Williams, co-founder of Twitter and Medium, writes about publishing, the internet, and selling companies.
HN links it for his statements on Medium's aims, his sale of Twitter shares, and open versus closed services.
It referred to a real and serious phenomena, but now the phrase has been muddied by political rhetoric. It's still a problem, and it's different enough from the old clickbait sensationalism and conspiracy theory chain emails that it deserves its own name.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-new-yellow-journalists-opportunity-comes-in-clicks-and-bucks/2016/11/20/d58d036c-adbf-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html?postshare=9481480360195210&tid=ss_tw
https://medium.com/@ev/i-found-it-interesting-that-when-i-went-to-read-zuckerbergs-post-about-misinformation-there-were-2ce1393bd76f#.hs64bjm1y
The ethos behind Medium is one of openness and democracy—like the Internet itself.
Evan Williams.
https://medium.com/@ev/what-were-trying-to-do-with-medium-e2f5bfcf0434
He is chan/rging the world.
Very interesting read with Ev's recent post about open vs closed services and the future in mind ("Sometimes things stay stuck"): https://medium.com/@ev/sometimes-things-stay-stuck-a0796cc638a3
Evan Williams' post on the sale: https://medium.com/@ev/why-im-selling-some-twitter-shares-e5b81386a796