The Medium Model: Can Writers Live Large?
John Koblin · 05/03/13 04:00PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18mkadlqso8mljpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
What comes next after unpaid microcontent? Try 4,700 words about foreskins, at about $3 a word. That, according to a source, is what Sloane Crosley supplied to a new project called Medium, from Twitter co-founder Ev Williams. Williams won’t pay you for a Tweet but, for now at least, he might pay you depending on who you are.