{"id":8864,"date":"2017-08-22T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/22\/news-2637\/"},"modified":"2017-08-22T10:46:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T18:46:09","slug":"news-2637","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/22\/news-2637\/","title":{"rendered":"Medium to Writers: Please Clap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/599c7aab4898176684f53d71\/lede\/1503427245103-shutterstock_296439956.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:44:05 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Publishing platform Medium <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.medium.com\/expanding-the-medium-partner-program-3be09dd146e4\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Tuesday that it will allow a &#8220;small group of writers and publications&#8221; to join its Partner Program. Writers participating in it will now get paid based on &#8220;engagement.&#8221; The primary signal of that engagement is how many &#8220;claps&#8221; (Medium&#8217;s version of a like) a post receives. <\/p>\n<p> In other words, the more claps your article gets, the more money you make. <\/p>\n<p> Earlier this year, Medium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/04\/business\/media\/medium-job-layoffs.html?mcubz=1\" target=\"_blank\">laid off<\/a> a third of its staff, and promised to work on finding a more sustainable business model. It soon <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/22\/medium-debuts-its-paid-membership-subscription-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a> a paid subscription service, which allows customers to access exclusive articles for $5 a month. Previously, Medium divided an individual subscription fee among all the articles a person read that month. Now, articles with more claps will be given a larger share of the pie. Medium didn&#8217;t reveal how much a single clap would factor in. <\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 550px;\" data-iframely-id=\"nOYc1aH\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> The problem is that unlike a &#8220;like&#8221; on Facebook or Twitter, you can &#8220;clap&#8221; at a Medium post as many times as you want, and people are already starting to abuse the system. Journalist Karen K. Ho, for example, posted a Medium <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@karenkho\/please-clap-f91bc071e1ae\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> that only said &#8220;Am I doing this correctly?&#8221; and has already received over 2,000 claps. <\/p>\n<p> In a genius move, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_tessr?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Tess Rinearson<\/a>, who describes herself as a former Medium employee on Twitter, showed how a banana could be used to continuously clap at an article by balancing it on top of a phone. <\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 550px;\" data-iframely-id=\"6DSBpjv\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 100%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8220;There is a lot we need to figure out to make this work right,&#8221; several members of Medium&#8217;s product team wrote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.medium.com\/expanding-the-medium-partner-program-3be09dd146e4\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> announcing the new revenue model. It looks like it! <\/p>\n<p> We&#8217;ve reached out to Medium for comment and will update this post if we hear back. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/vbbz43\/medium-to-writers-please-clap\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/599c7aab4898176684f53d71\/lede\/1503427245103-shutterstock_296439956.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:44:05 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is\u2026.probably not going to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[13960,4657,13958,13957,7610,13959,2518],"class_list":["post-8864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-claps","tag-journalism","tag-likes","tag-medium","tag-pay","tag-revenue","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}