Adam Tinworth
@adders.masto.onemanandhisblog.com.ap.brid.gy
Blogger, journalist and lecturer in audience strategy.
[bridged from https://masto.onemanandhisblog.com/@adders on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
[bridged from https://masto.onemanandhisblog.com/@adders on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Good piece from Om Malik comparing Anthropic and OpenAI’s business models and claimed revenue figures. It’s going to get very interesting if they decide to go public, and start having to show us the real numbers. As Om puts it:
"Welcome to 2026, when AI’s big boys have to start wearing their […]
"Welcome to 2026, when AI’s big boys have to start wearing their […]
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February 13, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Good piece from Om Malik comparing Anthropic and OpenAI’s business models and claimed revenue figures. It’s going to get very interesting if they decide to go public, and start having to show us the real numbers. As Om puts it:
"Welcome to 2026, when AI’s big boys have to start wearing their […]
"Welcome to 2026, when AI’s big boys have to start wearing their […]
Sitting on a train to London, and one chap lurches by carrying a bottle of Bells whisky and nothing else.
It’s 8.55 in the morning.
It’s 8.55 in the morning.
February 13, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Sitting on a train to London, and one chap lurches by carrying a bottle of Bells whisky and nothing else.
It’s 8.55 in the morning.
It’s 8.55 in the morning.
Avian doorway guardians.
February 13, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Avian doorway guardians.
It’s encouraging to see journalism returning to the idea of community being central to audience development after the decade-long detour of handing that all over to the social platforms.
But doing this well requires skill and expertise many of the organisations lack right now […]
But doing this well requires skill and expertise many of the organisations lack right now […]
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masto.onemanandhisblog.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:01 PM
It’s encouraging to see journalism returning to the idea of community being central to audience development after the decade-long detour of handing that all over to the social platforms.
But doing this well requires skill and expertise many of the organisations lack right now […]
But doing this well requires skill and expertise many of the organisations lack right now […]
Newspapers have always come and gone. The slow crumbling of the Washington Post is a tragedy for the legacy of that once-great title.
But we need a cycle of death and rebirth more than ever in journalism. Sometimes small fires let new diversity bloom in forests – and in media […]
But we need a cycle of death and rebirth more than ever in journalism. Sometimes small fires let new diversity bloom in forests – and in media […]
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February 9, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Newspapers have always come and gone. The slow crumbling of the Washington Post is a tragedy for the legacy of that once-great title.
But we need a cycle of death and rebirth more than ever in journalism. Sometimes small fires let new diversity bloom in forests – and in media […]
But we need a cycle of death and rebirth more than ever in journalism. Sometimes small fires let new diversity bloom in forests – and in media […]
I just had my first Christmas panto email.
There are no words.
There are no words.
February 9, 2026 at 12:14 PM
I just had my first Christmas panto email.
There are no words.
There are no words.
As journalism re-embraces community as a core component of audience work, we’re going to see publishers make the cardinal sin of community management:
Believing they own the community.
You can never own the community. You can host it, sure. You can - and should - serve it.
But you never own it.
Believing they own the community.
You can never own the community. You can host it, sure. You can - and should - serve it.
But you never own it.
February 9, 2026 at 10:08 AM
As journalism re-embraces community as a core component of audience work, we’re going to see publishers make the cardinal sin of community management:
Believing they own the community.
You can never own the community. You can host it, sure. You can - and should - serve it.
But you never own it.
Believing they own the community.
You can never own the community. You can host it, sure. You can - and should - serve it.
But you never own it.
Apple dinged over low-quality, scammy-looking ads on Apple News:
"Apple’s controversial partnership with Taboola to serve ads on Apple News seems to be going exactly as expected."
Shocker. Who could have predicted etc etc etc […]
"Apple’s controversial partnership with Taboola to serve ads on Apple News seems to be going exactly as expected."
Shocker. Who could have predicted etc etc etc […]
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February 9, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Apple dinged over low-quality, scammy-looking ads on Apple News:
"Apple’s controversial partnership with Taboola to serve ads on Apple News seems to be going exactly as expected."
Shocker. Who could have predicted etc etc etc […]
"Apple’s controversial partnership with Taboola to serve ads on Apple News seems to be going exactly as expected."
Shocker. Who could have predicted etc etc etc […]
A foxy nighttime encounter, on my way to collect my daughter.
February 8, 2026 at 10:50 PM
A foxy nighttime encounter, on my way to collect my daughter.
Reposted by Adam Tinworth
My January mini of the month, photographed in the new diorama at #warhammer Worthing.
February 7, 2026 at 7:08 PM
My January mini of the month, photographed in the new diorama at #warhammer Worthing.
For the last three years, I’ve been looking out over a courtyard from my desk at the university.
I’d never been in it in all that time.
Today, I finally rectified that.
I should work out there on a summer’s afternoon.
I’d never been in it in all that time.
Today, I finally rectified that.
I should work out there on a summer’s afternoon.
February 7, 2026 at 1:19 AM
For the last three years, I’ve been looking out over a courtyard from my desk at the university.
I’d never been in it in all that time.
Today, I finally rectified that.
I should work out there on a summer’s afternoon.
I’d never been in it in all that time.
Today, I finally rectified that.
I should work out there on a summer’s afternoon.
The good folks at Ghost have just ticked off a couple of items on my wishlist, with upgraded comment moderation and management.
Step by step, they’re turning this platform into the perfect audience-centric publishing platform […]
Step by step, they’re turning this platform into the perfect audience-centric publishing platform […]
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February 7, 2026 at 12:27 AM
The good folks at Ghost have just ticked off a couple of items on my wishlist, with upgraded comment moderation and management.
Step by step, they’re turning this platform into the perfect audience-centric publishing platform […]
Step by step, they’re turning this platform into the perfect audience-centric publishing platform […]
Admid all the noise around AI, it’s worth remembering that there are some areas where it is unquestionably creating benefits, like early detection of breast cancer.
I lost both my parents to cancer before I was out of my 30s. I’ll cheer this use of AI every step of the way […]
I lost both my parents to cancer before I was out of my 30s. I’ll cheer this use of AI every step of the way […]
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February 6, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Admid all the noise around AI, it’s worth remembering that there are some areas where it is unquestionably creating benefits, like early detection of breast cancer.
I lost both my parents to cancer before I was out of my 30s. I’ll cheer this use of AI every step of the way […]
I lost both my parents to cancer before I was out of my 30s. I’ll cheer this use of AI every step of the way […]
I just realised that this mug is probably over a quarter of a century old…
January 31, 2026 at 11:39 AM
I just realised that this mug is probably over a quarter of a century old…
You can mourn many things – including a phase of your working life.
https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/mourning/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=personal
https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/mourning/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=personal
Mourning
Any significant loss in life deserves – requires – a period of grief
www.coffeeandcomplexity.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:40 PM
You can mourn many things – including a phase of your working life.
https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/mourning/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=personal
https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/mourning/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=personal
Just discovered that Apple Creator Studio has an education discount: £29 per year, rather than £129. That’s a no brainer.
January 28, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Just discovered that Apple Creator Studio has an education discount: £29 per year, rather than £129. That’s a no brainer.
Life is not a football games. And sometimes we journalists have been guilty of making it one… https://onemanandhisblog.com/2026/01/life-is-not-a-football-game/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share
Life is not a football game
And an audience is not a tribal fanbase.
onemanandhisblog.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Life is not a football games. And sometimes we journalists have been guilty of making it one… https://onemanandhisblog.com/2026/01/life-is-not-a-football-game/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share
Well, this is uncomfortable.
Musk’s Grokipedia has quite an extensive page about me. It’s… not bad. But I’m not ecstatic that it exists at all. https://grokipedia.com/page/adam_tinworth
Musk’s Grokipedia has quite an extensive page about me. It’s… not bad. But I’m not ecstatic that it exists at all. https://grokipedia.com/page/adam_tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth is a British journalist, blogger, and academic with over 25 years of experience in the field, specializing in digital journalism, audience engagement, and content strategy. Beginning his career as a business journalist, he transitioned to digital roles in the mid-2000s, where he developed workflows and technologies for publishers, including building a blog network for Reed Business Information that generated millions of monthly page impressions across titles such as New Scientist...
grokipedia.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Well, this is uncomfortable.
Musk’s Grokipedia has quite an extensive page about me. It’s… not bad. But I’m not ecstatic that it exists at all. https://grokipedia.com/page/adam_tinworth
Musk’s Grokipedia has quite an extensive page about me. It’s… not bad. But I’m not ecstatic that it exists at all. https://grokipedia.com/page/adam_tinworth
That moment when you realise you’re trying to unlock your under-desk pedestal drawers with the key to your car’s roof box, and then you’re seized with an overwhelming desire to fill the box with camping gear and head to the woods.
January 28, 2026 at 9:36 AM
That moment when you realise you’re trying to unlock your under-desk pedestal drawers with the key to your car’s roof box, and then you’re seized with an overwhelming desire to fill the box with camping gear and head to the woods.
Om Malik:
"Cook is not stupid. He is not evil. He is trapped. The iron clasp of market expectations has turned him into what he never meant to be: a man who goes to parties at the White House while nurses die." https://om.co/2026/01/27/a-ceo-captured/
"Cook is not stupid. He is not evil. He is trapped. The iron clasp of market expectations has turned him into what he never meant to be: a man who goes to parties at the White House while nurses die." https://om.co/2026/01/27/a-ceo-captured/
A CEO, Captured.
I keep thinking about a line Lawrence Sanders wrote: a character asks whether money makes the world go round. The reply: “I do not believe it is money itself. After all, t…
om.co
January 27, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Om Malik:
"Cook is not stupid. He is not evil. He is trapped. The iron clasp of market expectations has turned him into what he never meant to be: a man who goes to parties at the White House while nurses die." https://om.co/2026/01/27/a-ceo-captured/
"Cook is not stupid. He is not evil. He is trapped. The iron clasp of market expectations has turned him into what he never meant to be: a man who goes to parties at the White House while nurses die." https://om.co/2026/01/27/a-ceo-captured/
Wow. I only just noticed the appearance controls in Ghost’s ActivityPub reader.
Lovely ... https://adders.blog/2026/01/27/wow-i-only-just-noticed.html
Lovely ... https://adders.blog/2026/01/27/wow-i-only-just-noticed.html
Wow. I only just noticed the appearance controls in Ghost’s ActivityPub reader.
Lovely stuff.
adders.blog
January 27, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Wow. I only just noticed the appearance controls in Ghost’s ActivityPub reader.
Lovely ... https://adders.blog/2026/01/27/wow-i-only-just-noticed.html
Lovely ... https://adders.blog/2026/01/27/wow-i-only-just-noticed.html
Today is tenuous links: what media publishers can learn about AI from…
Warhammer.
Slop for the slop throne! https://onemanandhisblog.com/2026/01/the-real-ai-opportunity/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=second-share
Warhammer.
Slop for the slop throne! https://onemanandhisblog.com/2026/01/the-real-ai-opportunity/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=second-share
January 27, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Today is tenuous links: what media publishers can learn about AI from…
Warhammer.
Slop for the slop throne! https://onemanandhisblog.com/2026/01/the-real-ai-opportunity/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=second-share
Warhammer.
Slop for the slop throne! https://onemanandhisblog.com/2026/01/the-real-ai-opportunity/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=second-share
Fascinating to see some details of the early life of a distant famous ancestor George Tinworth, in this Times piece.
"Although Tinworth’s mother, Jane (whose first three sons — like approximately a third of babies born in early 19th-century London — died in infancy), did her best to keep the […]
"Although Tinworth’s mother, Jane (whose first three sons — like approximately a third of babies born in early 19th-century London — died in infancy), did her best to keep the […]
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masto.onemanandhisblog.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Fascinating to see some details of the early life of a distant famous ancestor George Tinworth, in this Times piece.
"Although Tinworth’s mother, Jane (whose first three sons — like approximately a third of babies born in early 19th-century London — died in infancy), did her best to keep the […]
"Although Tinworth’s mother, Jane (whose first three sons — like approximately a third of babies born in early 19th-century London — died in infancy), did her best to keep the […]
London can be very literal sometimes.
Yes, I’m in Angel.
Yes, I’m in Angel.
January 23, 2026 at 1:30 PM
London can be very literal sometimes.
Yes, I’m in Angel.
Yes, I’m in Angel.
Substack now has an AppleTV app. But the headline calls it a “newsletter platform”.
It’s not. It’s an increasingly walled garden social content app, whose only difference from the others is the monetisation strategy is audience revenue, not ads […]
It’s not. It’s an increasingly walled garden social content app, whose only difference from the others is the monetisation strategy is audience revenue, not ads […]
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masto.onemanandhisblog.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Substack now has an AppleTV app. But the headline calls it a “newsletter platform”.
It’s not. It’s an increasingly walled garden social content app, whose only difference from the others is the monetisation strategy is audience revenue, not ads […]
It’s not. It’s an increasingly walled garden social content app, whose only difference from the others is the monetisation strategy is audience revenue, not ads […]