[chuhnk]

Think of Medium as a new age New York Times. Curation will be done by the general public rather than a paid editing team. Think of the shift of real time news to Twitter. It's basically the same idea for long form journalism. You may disagree at this point in time but given a few years it'll end up being just that.

[MaybiusStrip]

Twitter became the de-facto source of real-time news because there was no good alternative. Replacing a reputable institution like the NYT is a completely different game.

It's not even a good comparison. The NYT is a daily newspaper. The better-written pieces on medium have aspirations closer to what you'd find in The New Yorker or Vice. You have absolutely no precedent for thinking public curation will yield better results than the professionals who work for those institutions. In fact, most of the evidence so far (reddit, digg, etc...) indicates the contrary.

[tobiasu]

I find the assertion that the general public will curate high quality content pretty amusing.

One only needs to look at the front page of reddit or youtube to see what kind of an intellectual world we live in.

[trumbitta2]

If this is really the case, then Medium will be illegal in Italy. You have to be very very wary of how and what you write on your own, personal blog, here. Thanks Silvio.