Twitter Founders New Medium (Examples): Personalized BBS as a Trend? Will "Medium" Be a Hit?

Will "Medium" at Medium.com be the new Pinterest?
by the founders of Twitter - at Welcome to Medium

examples --

When I was a kid, Evan Williams etc. - nostaligic photos and "clever" texts
This Happened to Me, Evan Williams etc. - "not so clever" texts
The Obvious Collection, Biz Stone - improving the world
The Writer's Room, Steven Johnson - memory and procrastination

This is essentially a new twist on information "bulletin "boards" -- BBS in the old days (there is really nothing new under the sun) -- but you just never know what people are going to find interesting or useful.

Is personalized BBS in the trend?

Williams has a stellar track record as founder of Blogger and Twitter.
He tends to come up with things that people ultimately find useful, even if not used the way originally intended, so that one is curious to see what this will lead to.

Still in development and by invitation only.

See other reports at:

Christina Warren, Mashable, Twitter Founders Want to Reinvent Digital Publishing – Again

Will Dalton, ITPRoPortal.com, Twitter founders launch Pinterest-like site 'Medium'

Seth Flegerman, BusinessInsider.com, Twitter Cofounders Unveil Their Newest Project, An Online Publishing Platform Called Medium

EU Cookie Law Rules: Only Strictly Necessary Cookies Allowed Without Opt-In: European Union "Article 29 Working Party" Issues Advisory Opinion

The Register in the UK via Out-Law.com writes that the Article 29 Working Party, a committee composed of one representative from the national data protection authority of each Member State of the EU, has issued a quasi-regulatory advisory opinion about consent exemptions to the the EU Privacy and Electronic Communications (e-Privacy) Directive.

"Strictly necessary" cookies like those required for online banking or online payment are exempted from the opt-in requirement, i.e. in cases where the service to which the cookies relate would not work without the cookies and where the cookies are "pivotal" to the transmission of communications.

However, not all questions about the "EU Cookie Law" are that clear.
Read the full article.