"Agree strongly with the last point - any attempt to codify new roles at this point in time is probably pointless. Everything is changing so fast, jobs will need to evolve, too. A"
- Adam Tinworth
"I deplore this terrible deviation from your core values. Why taint the purity of the purple car with such pale imitations as purple trucks? ;-)"
- Adam Tinworth
"There have always been fluffy, lifestyle journalists, so I see no problem with you classifying yourself as one… :-) Yeah, I think the fact that most journalism is, in fact, hard work is a pretty major factor in never making 'citizen' journalism mainstream…"
- Adam Tinworth
"I find The CCBP weirdly life-affirming. This relentless mockery of the most inhuman aspects of social media makes me think than humanity isn't as gullible as it looks sometimes. :-)"
- Adam Tinworth
"It's not unlike the transition journalism has been through - news stories were around 350 words, features in multiples of 1,000 words based on the numbers of pages involved. Once there's no pages involved, all sorts of constraints disappear, so you need to find intelligent new ones to give your publishing form."
- Adam Tinworth
"I suspect there's a middle path: many business books I've read would have been better as two shorter books with the obvious padding cut. That would make each book significantly longer than a magazine article, but shorter than a traditional book. I suspect there's still too much writing to a set length so that you have something that feels "substantial" as a print product."
- Adam Tinworth
"The student sent me six questions, but the other three were so horribly generic - "what are your thoughts on blogging?" - that I skipped them for the purposes of this post. And, actually, skipped them in my reply to the student, too."
- Adam Tinworth
"Actually, I'm quite intentionally challenging that shorthand in my post. As you note, skill and quality - professionalism, dare I say it - don't actually map well to the paid/unpaid spectrum. Too much of the debate around what we're trying to avoid calling "citizen journalism" is tied up in the delusion that "because I'm paid, I must have higher standards" - and that's clearly not the case."
- Adam Tinworth
"Well, that's one solution Tobes… :) Generally speaking, I find tablets and ebooks are perfect partners. Never really got the hang of reading them on traditional monitors."
- Adam Tinworth