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Susan Mernits (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
A few years ago, I sat in a meeting with Jeff Jarvis , Brian Oberkirch , Grace Davis , Andy Carvin and others and listened to everyone talk about how to handle disasters post-Katerina--and how we nerds could possibly help. That memory makes it especially sweet to see the Gustaveinformation center and tools many of the same folks --and others, including my friend and web site builder Deanna, have pulled...
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BusinessWeek Online - Blogspotting (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
I've been asked to give BW colleagues a how-to on blogging next week. This is for the basic stuff that Jeff Jarvis zipped past when he tackled the more substantive issues here last spring. So, we'll go over: 1)...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
For this week's Separated at Birth, we have BuzzMachine.com's Jeff Jarvis . Does Jeff look like... South Park Elementary's guidance counselor Mr. Mackey? New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media
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LB's Rambles (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
I have to agree with Jeff Jarvis on this one: sending 15,000 reporters to the political convention(s) is stupid. I've pretty well been ignoring the convention this week (and expect to do the same for the Republicans next week) for...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
In my throat-clearer for this week, I took gentle exception to the Jeff Jarvis/Jack Shafer notion that news organizations would be better off relying on C-SPAN for the conventions than sending reporters. I still stand by that claim, but after finally catching some post-game network coverage of the convention last night, it's clear that you'd be infinitely better off as a viewer using the largely unfiltered...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Gentlemen, start your contrariness! Ten days before this week's swoop-down of 15,000 journalists (including a handful of us from reason ) onto Denver for the Democratic National Convention, two media harrumphers I frequently agree with, Jack Shafer and Jeff Jarvis, both advocated journalistic boycotts of the proceedings. Said the Buzzmachinist : The outcome of the conventions is known. There will...
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Hugo Zoom (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
photo of Brian Conley(on the right) and Jeff Jarvis, c. 2006, courtesy somethingtobedesired.com from a sequence of emails from Eowyn Rieke, Brian Conley's wife: 1.Brian Conley, founder of Alive in Baghdad was arrested Tuesday, August 19th while in Beijing. Press inquiries may be directed to press@aliveinbaghdad.org 2. According to the US Embassy (last update received 11:30 pm US EDT
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
By Coelho, Paulo 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.
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SMS Text News (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
So says Eric Schmidt, because mobile is more targeted — and Google targets. That’s the message reported by Jeff Jarvis (highlighting some tidbits from a recent CNBC interview). When in doubt about the mobile industry, I always sit back and think of Eric. “They’ve seen the writing on the wall, surely'” I tell myself, “They [...]
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Jeff Jarvis may well be right about political conventions these days being nothing more than contemptible âstaged events to get media coverageâ and therefore not worthy of reporting on, but theyâre tailor made for the quirky news stylings of CNNâs veteran correspondent Jeanne Moos, whose âbeatâ is the offbeat, so to speak. In todayâs âMoost [...]
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Diary of a wordsmith (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Over the last few months, media commentators have been engaged in a debate over the future of sub-editors. Jeff Jarvis blogged today in the Guardian that subs are a luxury. But are they? I've posted before on what sub-editors do , so let's look again at what's going on... A small number of UK newspapers have already dumped their subs completely, not just for online but also print editions too. Newspaper...
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Beet.TV (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
As network television has largely abandoned live coverage of the national political conventions, the online media world is expanding coverage and resources. The Washington Post and Newsweek have just announced extensive Web casts from both conventions. Newsweek's Jon Meacham and...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Jeff Jarvis submits: I was talking with a media exec who started a blog ad network — bless him — but who I thought was taking too high a share of the revenue: at least half. That’s a natural reflex, perfectly understandable: Get what you can. Other networks do that. But the problem for me is that by taking too much, he excluded me from the network — I’m sticking with BlogAds, which takes only 20 percent...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
As Denver prepares ( with a makeover! ) for 15,000 journalists to descend upon the Mile High fortress for the upcoming Democratic National Convention, Jeff Jarvis wonders if maybe that number isn't just a tad excessive. The Buzzmaster argues that "sending 15,000 journalists to the conventions remains a shameful waste." Instead real journos should focus on their local constituencies: Those reporters...
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smays.com (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
From the BuzzMachine: "Forbes.com reports that the number of journalists covering the conventions this fall will remain at the same level as 2004 and 2000: 15,000 of them. What a waste. The outcome of the conventions is known. There will be no news. Why are these news organizations sending so many staffers there? Ego. That’s it, pure ad simple: Our man in Denver. Instead of your woman. It’s for bylines,...
