Recovering Journalist (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
This is frickin' brilliant. (Hat tip to Jeff Jarvis, and a deep bow to the author, AOL DailyFinance's Sam Gustin.) Then he got an idea! An awful idea! The Grinch got a wonderful, awful idea! "I know just what to...
Tim Oren's Due Diligence (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Jeff Jarvis heaps some well-deserved contempt on Murdoch's whining about online readers, and then lays out some specific and worthwhile suggestions on how to turn a dud news site into something that can make money. If you care about new...
DefinitiveInk (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
At a bar last night, I was talking to someone smart who made an excellent point: that a very quiet, revolutionary act in the history of publishing had just taken place. (This person compared this moment to Gutenberg, which might be a little bit far afield but not that far off!) That is that Joshua Micah Marshall is hiring a publisher for Talking Points Memo, the blog he started all on his own in 2000,...
Johnnie Moore's Weblog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Jeff Jarvis has a pithy rant against corporate fussiness over how their names get spelt. Apparently, "AOL" has just become "Aol." with some hoohah about the importance of the period, or full stop as they may or may not allow us Brits to call it. This kind of thing has always made me laugh. Years ago, when dinosaurs walked the land, I worked for an ad agency called Valin Pollen....
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Jeff Jarvis submits: I’ve had a fair number of press calls on the Murdoch/Bing sillliness and here are the points I’ve been making: Were Microsoft ( MSFT ) to pay News Corp. ( NWS ) to drop Google ( GOOG ), it would be a double-play in Google’s favor: Microsoft would lose money and gain little. News Corp. would lose traffic, shifting away from the search engine with more than 60%...
Inc.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Murdoch's Google gambit shakes up the blogosphere . The Financial Times reports that Rupert Murdoch is in talks with Microsoft to remove his news empire, which includes the Wall Street Journal and Fox News, from Google's search listings. The move, which has been mulled by some commentators for years, and had recently been floated by Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis, could reshape both the search and...
Kempton - ideas Revolutionary (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
From Jeff Jarvis “The half-life of news“, “At a Yale conference a week ago, Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer talked about the life cycle of the value of news in his business. When a piece of financial news come out, it is at its most valuable for a very short time, he said. I asked him later how [...]
News Dissector Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Murdoch courts trouble if he blocks Google on news Jeff Jarvis, media blogger and author: “It’s nothing short of suicidal.” Murdoch’s proposal is a gamble, and one that could hurt News Corp instead of helping it. [SNIP] News Corp’s proposal is a way to get a cut of the action. Risks include destroying ad revenue most news websites depend on if [...]
fredzimny ccccc blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
View more documents from Sabin Buraga. Related articles by Zemanta Reommending new Study: How Communication Drives Performance – John Baldoni – HarvardBusiness.org (fredzimny.wordpress.com) Jeff Jarvis about “The Future of (your) Business Is in Ecosystems” (fredzimny.wordpress.com) Google Reader Unleashes A Gaggle Of Nice Social And Feed Management Updates (techcrunch.com)...
The Flack (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Two pieces broke over the weekend that make me wonder if the modern practice of public relations may finally be getting its just due. Or maybe the PR biz hasn't changed as much as we'd all like to think. Both stories touch on the old and the new, the yin and the yang, the steadfast and the social sides of our dichotomous profession. The first piece gave props to Hollywood PR peeps for putting butts...
Media: PDA | guardian.co.uk (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
How much would Google be affected by news outlets removing their content and siding with Microsoft's Bing? The war of the search engines enters a new phase as Microsoft considers paying publishers to put their content on its search enging Bing - presumably in the hope they will do as Rupert Murdoch has suggested and remove it from Google. But how much would this actually hurt Google? A recent German...
Brand Experience Matters (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
I recently heard two charming hotel stories that demonstrate how easy it is to make a small gesture that can make a huge difference to the guests brand experience. Story one David Benson (a mate at work) occasionally stays at the Charlotte Street Hotel . The last time he stayed he found a card on his pillow welcoming him back. Story two John Abraham (he told this story during a recent Satmetrix webinar)...
Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Jeff Jarvis on New Business Models for News 2009 from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo. Very interesting IMHO, and one of the pointers to what some kinds of journalism will look like in a networked world.
An Awfully Big Blog Adventure (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
As a break from editing the bare breasts and sex out of my Egyptian novel Eye of the Moon for a US publisher, I’m reading Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Jeff Jarvis’s What Would Google Do? simultaneously. The three make very odd companions while I shift from 1500 BC to the 16th century, and then on to the digital world of now. In What Would Google Do? Jeff Jarvis suggests we have to...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
On Point Radio Jeff Jarvis , Michael Wolff , and Steven Brill were guests on this morning's "On Point with Tom Ashbrook." (Brill once again refused to name any news organizations that have signed up with Journalism Online.) Listen to it .
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