Funny Medium Entries - Where the Lolcows Submit Content, Created by the co-founder of Twitter

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Before I go into what is so cowish about this website, a little bit of background is needed on what exactly this site is supposed to be. I am pretty sure that MovieBlob and his friends have also been members of this site before.

This article from 2014 has a little bit of basic information on them and what they do:

Today, social journalism is popping up everywhere and in many different variations. Aside from Forbes, the Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger,announced they’d be converting into a hybrid platform. Gawker launched an integrated reader platform called Kinja. And there are the many well financed start ups in the space, including BuzzFeed, Medium (backed by Twitter co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone) and Vox Media (which lured Ezra Klein from the Washington Post.) Significantly, LinkedIn has its formidable new contributors network of “Influencers” (Bill Gates! Richard Branson! Jack Welch!), now slickly integrated into its news app, “Pulse”; Facebook has its new media-formatted news app, “Paper.”; and you still have to turn to Twitter if you want the up-to-the-second thoughts of luminaries or famous journalists like David Carr, whose content is paid for courtesy of the New York Times. (Thanks, Mr. Sulzberger, Jr!)

So when USA Today media critic Michael Wolff dismissed the “Forbes vanity model” as devaluing the authority of media brands, I thought I’d respond. I titled my column “Why Michael Wolff is Wrong.” Forbes had tripled their audience to 45 million user visits a month, I argued, replaced their sensationalistic slideshows with meaty content that requires sustained reader engagement, and created tens of millions of dollars in value for the owners. Here then, is at least one way for some journalistic media properties to thrive.

For good measure, I even hip checked the digitally progressive media Mr. Carr for expressing similar doubts about the Forbes model.

Carr gently responded on Twitter: “@edsussman. Open edit platforms seemed less sexy today after Fortune's story about people using for pump and dump.”

Oops.

As Carr implies, the mainstream media generally holds itself to much higher standards than social sharing platforms (which are essentially amoral about content ethics or quality – they’ll publish anything) even though it has meant ceding the information revolution -- and most digital ad revenue -- to 23-year olds in flip flops.

Even putting aside the extreme example of contributors possibly breaking the law (the SEC is now investigating the Forbes pump and dumpers), what about lousy quality of social journalism in general? What about weak writing, factual mistakes, unfettered self-promotion and covert advocacy? Is all social platform content inherently untrustworthy or is it possible to elevate it with journalism’s standards of higher quality and ethics?
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I don't know that much about this website before, but I've been seeing more cowish people who have written for this website that keep popping up in all this Alison Rapp discussion that's been had. They seem like a very Buzzfeed like site where people submit whatever they want to it. I don't know why we never had a thread for this site before but it seems sorely needed around here. Kelly Ellis is someone with potential to become a full blown lolcow later on. I shared what I found with @Hellfire and she already fits the bill for being part of a little rat king herself. Right now, I consider her a lolcalf but a name that should be looked at closely in the following weeks. There are at least several other people like this you can find on Twitter where they mention that they write for Medium.

I am just going to put all the info that both of us found into this thread as a sort of public infodump.

https://twitter.com/justkelly_ok/with_replies

https://plus.google.com/+KellyEllis

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyatmedium

https://www.google.com/webhp?source...&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=kelly ellis game developer

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/kelly-ellis-claims-she-was-sexually-harassed-at-google-2015-3

http://www.buzzfeed.com/salvadorhernandez/google-kelly-ellis

All their tweets to Wu.

http://archive.is/pIcOV

https://twitter.com/search?q=from:justkelly_ok to:spacekatgal&src=typd

Minor rat king action going on, like 1-2 tweets to other rats.

https://twitter.com/search?q=from:justkelly_ok to:srhbutts&src=typd

https://twitter.com/search?q=from:justkelly_ok to:sschinke&src=typd

https://twitter.com/search?q=from:justkelly_ok to:unburntwitch&src=typd

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=from:justkelly_ok to:thequinnspiracy&src=typd

Lots to Randwhale

https://twitter.com/search?q=from:justkelly_ok to:randileeharper&src=typd

They are rat kinged to Iggy.

https://twitter.com/search?q=from:justkelly_ok to:iglvzx&src=typd

Harassment tweets.

https://twitter.com/search?q=harassment from:justkelly_ok&src=typd

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I love this chick so much that she gets her own thread now.

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/kelly-ellis.19443/
 
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