Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 .
SeekingAlpha Media Stocks (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Jeff Jarvis submits: Tweet : How bankruptcy can help a newspaper get theah from heah: Don’t squander it. ** I fear that Tribune Company – and other newspaper companies – will come out of bankruptcy having squandered the opportunity it presents to rebuild from the ground up. Complete Story »
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Internet is trying to eat itself Web visionary, Tim O'Reilly, has suggested that the we could be heading into an "ugly time" on the internet mirroring the browser wars of the nineties. Talking at the Web 2.0 expo in New York, O'Reilly warned that a number of moves by big organisations like Apple, Google, Facebook and Digg could make the web a closed system. O'Reilly believes that things...
Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Jeff Jarvis has an interesting post about the “swine flu of stupidity spreading about the Murdoch meme of blocking Google from indexing a site’s content (to which Google always replies that you’ve always been able to do that with robots.txt – so go ahead if you want). I love that The Reach Group (TRG), a [...]
In Search of Perfect Client Service (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
I strongly endorsed a new book by Jeff Jarvis , What Would Google Do? If you want to see Googley thinking in action, check out Michelle Golden's post, Think Your Clients Use Your Firm's Website? Here's the advice: Firms also talk about putting valuable content and tools behind this client-only wall. This is exactly opposite of what your content strategy should be. Put your content and tools "out...
MasterMaq's Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Here are my weekly notes: Another really busy week ahead! I’m speaking at Tech Days on Wednesday. Also attending LTEL, DemoCamp, and an open data event coming up on Saturday! Amazon announced a bunch of really interesting AWS-related things lately, including datacenters in Asia and a new SDK for .NET developers. Another great post from Jeff Jarvis: the [...]
This Week in Tech (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Hosts: Leo Laporte , Jeff Jarvis , Baratunde Thurston , and John C. Dvorak Modern Warfare 2 is the biggest media launch of all time but PC gamers are hopping mad, how come usability expert Jakob Nielsen's site looks so bad, and so long Geocities... For additional show notes, visit the wiki page for this episode . Links to stories we covered (and then some) are available from Delicious or in our Friendfeed...
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Jeff Jarvis gets some interesting data from a research group in Germany - it's clear that mainstream publishers need Google a whole lot more than Google needs them: TRG took the content of the 1,000 domains controlled by the 148 German publishers that signed the so-called Hamburg Declaration(a veiled shot at Google) and analyzed how critical they are to Google search results. TRG asked the question:...
The Shifted Librarian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
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Strategic Inspiration for you (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
I came across this 19 second video with Jeff Jarvis through this blog posting. When you think about a company you work for, how generous would you say that the people working for the company are?
Og så alligevel... (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
One of the bloggers I read regularly is the American journalist Jeff Jarvis. Jarvis provides insight into the changing media landscape, and has written a book called “What Would Google Do”, which uses Google as a case in point of these changes. One of the most interesting aspects of this is what Jarvis calls the “the [...]
baithak (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
How the U.S. Funds the Taliban By Aram Roston - The U.S. government is funding the very forces its troops are fighting -- funds that add up to a huge amount of money for the Taliban. Diplomacy: A monumental task for American Muslims - As a Muslim, I condemn the horrific tragedy that occurred at Fort Hood last Thursday. My heart goes out to the families of American service members who were killed and...
CJR Daily (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Taking place at Yale today and tomorrow is a conference: "Journalism & the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?" Participants include Paul Starr,Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, C.W. Anderson, Tom Rosentiel, Columbia's own Michael Schudson...and many other luminaries. You can follow the live-stream of the conference proceedings here, and the Twitter feed
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