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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Jeff Jarvis submits: Google’s (GOOG) hubris may have finally gotten the better of them. See this from the official Google blog about the launch of Knol , the Wikipedia-About.com-Associated-Content it just officially launched: The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people’s heads: millions of people...
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Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Jeff Jarvis writes that "Actually is the new 'y'know'":The most overused and unnecessary word on broadcast is "actually." Start counting how many times it is used by TV people and you'll hate me for driving you nuts. While I'm kvetching,...
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BusinessWeek Online - Blogspotting (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Remember Mad-libs, those word games where you fill in random adjectives, adverbs and nouns and then read them in a ridiculous text? Well, from what Jeff Jarvis is reporting, the spam-bloggers, or sploggers, are teaching that same skill to computers....
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Wordblog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The intro on Jeff Jarvis’s Digital Media column in the Guardian today had a familiar ring. It was, given a bit of subbing to sharpen it up, the same as one on his blog on July 10. Is this testing the argument or, in the web jargon, some form of “crowd-sourcing” or a kind of informal [...]
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Lost Remote (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
I got a kick out of reading this blog post from Jeff Jarvis. Because this has happened every year during panel discussions at NAB-RTNDA for eight years running. I think I like Jarvis’ approach: if some curmudgeon news director wants to trivialize the importance of the web and pull you into a debate, [...]
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Around the Corner v2 - MGuhlin.net (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Jay Rosen , as cited by Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine) , defines Citizen Journalism: When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in their possession to inform one another, that’s citizen journalism. Here's an my adaptation: When our children, previously known as the class, employ the press tools they have in their possession to teach one another, that's education. Whatcha...
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dustbury.com (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
As uncovered by Jeff Jarvis: In my ego searches, I just saw a splog that copied text of mine but ran it through ridiculous almost-synonym replacements. I'm assuming this is done to fool Google into thinking it is original content and perhaps to fool the text cops folks like the AP hire. I won't link to them on principle but a sample: This: "Yesterday, I was on a panel with Terry Heaton at the Public...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Jeff Jarvis submits: It’s bad enough that the FCC is against free speech and the First Amendment. Now it’s against capitalism. Get a load of commissioner Jonathan Adelstein’s ridiculous conditions on the long, long, long overdue Siriux-XM merger: He told the companies that they would have to agree to cap prices for their service for six years after the merger, set aside one-quarter of their radio...
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Orbitcast (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Will the iPhone disrupt radio? That's what new media gurus Steve Rubel and Jeff Jarvis think, and I tend to agree (to a point). Just the fact that Pandora is the fourth most popular free app on the iPhone (next to Apple's remote, AIM, and weather) is evidence enough that there's a strong interest in streaming audio. Bear in mind that Steve, Jeff, et al. are literally on the bleeding edge of this stuff....
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Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
I’ve come across a couple of incidental comments on the post I wrote last night about watching the reinvention of the metro daily. (Incidental comments work like this: Ryan Sholin excerpted a few grafs from my post, which Howard Owens commented on at Ryan’s site. Jeff Jarvis picked up on Howard’s comment and posted a shortish [...]
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Jeff Jarvis submits: Alan Mutter runs the numbers to see which newspaper companies could be taken private and Mark Potts fears they could be taken private by private-equity blood/cash-suckers. A few examples: Mutter says the Times Company (NYT) would need to borrow $2 billion to go private, Gannett (GCI) $4.5 billion, and McClatchy (MNI) a K-Mart flashing blue-light special of only $467 million. But...
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The Real Estate Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Here is a new little applet that is pretty cool to play with, Wordle. I would describe it but in this case pictures do tell the story. Make your own here, and a hat tip to Jeff Jarvis. Tags: wordle Other Posts You May Be Interested In: IndyMac Hurt by Piggyback and Builder Loans Downpayments Growing As Mortgage Lenders [...]
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Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Jeff Jarvis doesn't think much of the new ad campaign by the World Association of Newspapers - and I don't blame him. Really - how arrogant is this: "We've done the search. You only have to turn the pages". "Sit back and consume, darn you! Stop all that two way responding stuff!" Technorati Tags: newspapers
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newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Jeff Jarvis is a director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York and a MediaGuardian columnist. He blogs at Buzzmachine and has written an excellent piece about the UK's awful libel laws, which David Cameron or Nick Clegg could win brownie points from the media by repealing, except they are too handy for our political class.
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Jeff Jarvis submits: Alan Mutter compiles the bad news for news and media stocks. What’s worse than bad news? Really bad news? The shares of five newspaper publishers plunged to new lows in early trading today, including the shares of GateHouse Media, which fell to $1 per share, threatening its ability to remain listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Tumbling to new lows alongside GHS were Gannett...
