With the crazi­ness of run­ning a WordCamp last week I didn’t have much time to read through my Instapaper queue. Thankfully, I had some extra time to catch up on things tonight. Interestingly I had a lot of arti­cles that hit on sim­i­lar themes. Last week seemed to be the week to pub­lish pieces about publishing.

Scott Hanselman’s Your words are wasted was first up. It speaks to my belief in the impor­tance of open source soft­ware and own­ing what you pub­lish. As he says, “I con­trol this domain, this soft­ware and this content.”

It’s been a while since I’ve read some­thing from the Nieman Lab but I think I need to start fol­low­ing them more closely again. 13 ways of look­ing at Medium was well done. They save the crit­i­cal ques­tions for the end and there could have been more of those, but it’s an inter­est­ing look at Ev Williams’ new pub­lish­ing tool.

The Dangers of Being a Product Instead of a Customer was another good post. As Diego writes there, “I’d much rather be a cus­tomer of web ser­vices than a product.”

Anil Dash’s mus­ing on streams was inter­est­ing as a some­what higher level piece. People do read on the inter­net, they just require con­tent to be pre­sented in the right way.

Interesting stuff going on.