New Statesman (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Despite my being in this remote region, I wasn't alone: people were travelling with me through the words of my blog The American journalist Jeff Jarvis has come by my house to interview me. Here I am, face to face with one of the most incisive technology journalists of today - via his blog BuzzMachine - and he is asking me what I think of the internet. I find the idea mind-boggling, to say the least;...
Winds of Change.NET (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
I'm sorry for stealing Gerard Vanderleun's oft-used title for this, but I really can't think of any other name for the opportunity the Ceiling Cat has placed in my lap today. See, I was reading Jeff Jarvis' feed , as I usually, do, and he was commenting favorably on the New Jersey Star Ledger's video newsroom; he mentioned that there had been some dialog with a blogger , which I thought might be amusing,...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last fall, I was invited to a new media conference run by Jeff Jarvis . There I met one of the guys helping Jeff run it — Dave Cohn. Dave has come up with the idea that maybe donations from communities of like-minded or even just interested people are one [...]
PersonaNonData (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Following on from my post on branding last week, Jeff Jarvis interviews Paul Coelho and finds the perfect example of an author embracing his power as a brand. He's making more money in the process as well. He is a pirate. Coelho discovered the power of free when a fan posted a Russian translation of one of his novels online and book sales there climbed from 3,000 to 100,000 to 1m in three years. "This...
Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
In the chapter on publishing in his forthcoming book, Jeff Jarvis writes this: So here’s the question: Why shouldn’t books have ads to support them as TV, newspapers, magazines, and radio do? Ads in books would be less irritating than commercials interrupting shows or banners blinking at you on a web page. Would it be any [...]
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
In a recent On the Media interview with Carole Tarrant, the Roanoke Times editor defends the place of user comments online - an embattled subject in recent weeks, one taken up by blogging heads Gawker and BuzzMachine, alike. While many...
Small Business SEM (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Never has the opinion of the individual been as powerful as it is today. One negative blog post or product review can spread online in a flash and change the direction of a company. Need proof? See Jeff Jarvis’ 2005 blog post, Dell lies. Dell sucks, which created the “Dell Hell” phenomenon and forced the [...]
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
As BuzzMachine blogger, Jeff Jarvis, writes, "Let's get this straight, people: Local TV news sucks. It is no model for what newspapers or anyone should do in video online. It's cheesy. It's unbearable." And so, the Star-Ledger (New Jersey) recently...
mathewingram.com/work (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
From Jeff Jarvis comes word of the launch of Ledger Live, a daily video news show from the newsroom of the New Jersey Star-Ledger newspaper. Designed and produced with the help of video journalism pioneer Michael Rosenblum, who has helped newsrooms in the U.S., Britain and elsewhere turn journalists into VJs. The Legder Live broadcast, [...]
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
I have to agree with Jeff Jarvis - the approach the Star Ledger is taking to local news reporting looks very real. why bother with a huge studio, the "Starship Enterprise" command deck (etc) - when you can instead show a working reporter in the newsroom, and cut to graphics or on the street reporters as needed?
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
From Jeff Jarvis: The imperatives of the link economy It’s not content until it’s linked. It's amazing how many people still don't understand this. Your content can be optimized like nobody's business, but without links it just doesn't matter. If a tree falls in the forest...
Linux Journal (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Jeff Jarvis is working on a book called What Would Google Do? Since Google just did something good for me — and for a market that needs help desperately — I thought I'd share my experience with Jeff and the rest of you. What Google Did for me was radically improve one of the most annoying experiences in the Webbed world: registering a domain name. read more
Etaoin Shrdlu (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
When Jeff Jarvis dies (and I hope that's a long time from now), perhaps the best choice for an epithet would be " Do what you do best and link to the rest. " In that short phrase he has summarized much central, essential truth about media in the new globally networked world. As we struggle with reshaping our operations to fit into new revenue realities, you need to understand these issues at a fundamental...
Sister Toldjah (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
LOL. This is hilarious (via Jeff Jarvis): Reading the story was delightful enough. Hearing him tell it makes it even better.
Etaoin Shrdlu (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Many of the smart, passionate people who are arguing for a new definition and practice of journalism – I'm thinking here mainly about Jay Rosen , Howard Owens ( jayrosen_nyu and howardowens on Twitter) and, in a somewhat different way, Jeff Jarvis – are in danger of suffering from baby-with-the-bathwater syndrome. Too often, they propose simple, categorical resolutions to complex and nuanced issues....
