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12 Apr 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Daniel Goldman
Thanks to Brave and Medium bringing back custom domains, BAT tipping is open. As any long time reader knows, I’m rather critical of the monetization system on Medium. It wasn’t bad back in 2019, but things have gotten progressively worse. Medium...
23 Mar 2020 3 minute read 4 comments Daniel Goldman
The biased treatment of coronavirus related articles on Medium is revolting. Just like we have Twitter, Facebook, Quora, Stack Exchange, and so on, I'm hoping that the writing community will have a number of platforms on which to write, including Vo...
16 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman
Just a quick memo. I want to help the writing community grow and prosper. And since I'm fairly platform agnostic, I have a number of different locations where I'm working to improve the community. One of them is now Quora. You can follow the new Quor...
11 Dec 2019 3 minute read 2 comments Daniel Goldman
How unprofessional behavior at one of Medium’s official publications left me with a great deal of disappointment. Ever been ghosted? You just stop getting any communication from the person, with no word whatsoever. This is the story of my experie...
28 Oct 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman
Sharing our stories and clapping for each others’ articles is great, but we need a more interactive environment to share our writings. The Status Quo I do use Facebook, as well as Twitter, and both are useful platforms, but they’re not enough, espe...
22 Sep 2019 5 minute read 15 comments Daniel Goldman
I started writing on Medium at the end of January. It seemed like a decent platform at first, but I quickly came to realize that it had significant flaws, especially in its failure to maintain a high degree of transparency and ethical standards. Ther...
22 Aug 2019 10 minute read 4 comments Daniel Goldman
Question: Does Medium focus too much attention on its own projects, at the expense of the majority of their writers? Medium has a lot of great authors. Some of these authors are very popular. However, a lot of their continued popularity stems from...
26 Jul 2019 3 minute read 1 comment Daniel Goldman
And another week has passed. I lost track of time on this article, and wrote most of it today. I swear the weeks are going by faster and faster lately. FJA is now over the 60 follower mark (on Medium), which is great. I’m hoping to see the 100 follow...
15 Jul 2019 2 minute read 3 comments Daniel Goldman
See? It’s annoying when authors make assumptions about you, right? Some of my articles have titles that rely on general calls to action, but I generally don’t reference my reader in the title. I don’t like to make assumptions about my readers. But...
12 Jul 2019 3 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman
It’s Friday already? When did that happen? How has everyone’s week been? It’s been kind of busy here, as I’ve been trying to promote this publication and get some work done on other projects. There isn’t too much to report in the FJA department. We’r...
