My blog mentor used to say keep your posts short. One point per post. Three paragraphs should do it.
Well, here it is. The perfect post. Albeit leading to 3,000 >more< words of juicy goodness about a trade that is being eroded, outsourced and killed off as mainstream media declines. Over on Subs' Standards, I've just posted up the final chunk of a three-part epic looking back over my 21 years as a sub-editor.
And here is it: RIP Sub-editing 1987-2008. Enjoy! Meanwhile check out these taster pics: of my old-skool kit and the changing size and shape of technology…
