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- One Reason Why Google Should Want Twitter
- Jeff Jarvis submits: Here’s a good clue as to why Google should be interested in Twitter. It’s not just search. It’s currency. Google isn’t good at currency. It needs content to ferment; it needs links and clicks to collect so PageRank can determine its value. But in...
- External links 2009-04-06
- Google vs. AP: Saber-Rattling
- Jeff Jarvis submits: Forbes quotes AP head Tom Curley saber-rattling in negotiations with Google: “Curley warned that if Google doesn’t strike the right deal with the AP soon, ‘They will not get our copy going forward.’” This is more than mere negotiation. The AP has been making noise about...
- External links 2009-05-04
- New York Times: The Clock Is Ticking
- Jeff Jarvis submits: The Observer’s John Koblin reports that the New York Times NYT is considering putting a meter on usage of its site and charging once you’ve read too much. Incredible. by Jeff Jarvis
- External links 2009-05-17
- Google Wave: The New News
- Jeff Jarvis submits: Never underestimate Google GOOG. That should have been my 41st WWGD? rule. Just as I was thinking they were behind the curve on the live web - and argued they should buy Twitter - Google attacked it from the left flank with Wave. In...
- External links 2009-06-01
- Online Advertising: Stop Selling Scarcity
- Jeff Jarvis submits: You have to love - or at least pay attention to - Digg’s new advertising system enabling users to vote on ads: The more that users digg an ad, the less the advertiser pays. That’s a reversal of advertising but it’s the way advertising probably needs...
- External links 2009-06-04
- Google: Keeping the Public Eye Public
- Jeff Jarvis submits: In a few countries around the world, we’ve seen a backlash against Google’s GOOG Streetview as somehow an invasion of privacy, even though what Google captures is the very definition of public: What can be seen in the open. I wish that journalists would...
- External links 2009-06-22
- NYT to Charge for iPhone App?
- Jeff Jarvis submits: Paid Content reports today that The New York Times Companies’ NYT Martin Nisenholtz is talking about charging for the paper’s mobile app. On the face of it, this seems to make sense: People are paying for mobile content and functionality (ring tones vs. earth-shattering...
- External links 2009-06-25
- Talking with Google's CEO About the Post-Industrial Era
- Jeff Jarvis submits: At the Aspen Ideas Festival, I got up to a mic to ask Eric Schmidt a question. No, it wasn’t, “what would Google do?” I wanted his reaction to a notion I’ve talked about here that has crystallized since I wrote the book: that we are...
- External links 2009-07-01
- Google's Eric Schmidt on the New World
- Jeff Jarvis submits: Here’s video from the Aspen Ideas Festival with Google CEO Eric Schmidt responding to my question about what follows the industrial age. by Jeff Jarvis
- External links 2009-07-03
- News Links: The John Henry Fight of Man vs. Algorithm
- Jeff Jarvis submits: I interviewed Josh Cohen, product manager for Google News, this week for the Guardian MediaTalkUSA podcast out early next week and asked him how many clicks to news sources Google News causes. The answer: a billion. And then I saw this PaidContent report on...
- External links 2009-08-03
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- Catching Up With… Jeff Jarvis
- Byline: Geoff Van Dyke WHEN WE LAST HEARD FROM JARVIS... He was the TV critic for TV Guide. Before that, Jarvis was the associate publisher and Sunday editor of the New York Daily News, and, in 1990, the founding managing editor of Entertainment Weekly. Jarvis has also held positions...
- Research articles 2002-12-01
- Murdoch and the Internet: Then and Now
- Jeff Jarvis submits: In 2005, Rupert Murdoch gave a rousing speech to the American Society of Newspapers Editors calling on them to listen to digital natives. This Monday, his deputy, Les Hinton, gave a speech to the World Association of Newspapers in India warning them to beware geeks bearing...
- External links 2009-12-01
- "Rebounding" from Job Loss, "WWGD?" and "Wired to Care"
- Jack Covert Selects, the series of reviews from 800CEORead looking at important business books, has three recent reviews at three new books: The most recent is Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss, made poignantly topical by Covert as he notes the shutting down...
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- How Will Journalism Survive The Internet Age?
- Not by spending days on end in conferences talking about how to save journalism. Too bad, because if that’s all it took you’d think we’d be awfully close to a solution by now. Ditto if all we had to do was good journalism—but we know that isn’t enough either...
- External links 2009-12-01
- Be Like Google, or Die?
- Can companies be like Google? I've argued on this blog that most cannot, any more than my wearing Nike shoes makes me like that other Mike. But Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor who also writes the blog Buzz Machine, has a new book out, "What Would Google Do?" arguing...
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- The Newbies are Coming
- Back in the days when the Internet was really restricted to us nerds and geeks, people in newsgroups predecessors of chat groups were fretting that easier access to all things online provided then by AOL would result in our world being swamped by the newbies. ...
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Potential FTC Fines Raise Big Blogging Questions
- The Federal Trade Commission has released its revised guidelines concerning the use of endorsements and testimonials in advertising. The revisions include a focus on "bloggers" and social media users, requiring them to properly disclose when they have received payment in the form of either money or product from a company...
- News items 2009-10-06
- Local Advertising: An Opportunity, If Fleeting
- Jeff Jarvis submits: The promise of local ad support for news will come only if a new population of very small businesses can be served in new and effective ways - before Google GOOG beats everybody else to it. That’s apparent in the results of Webvisible and Nielsen surveys...
- External links 2009-02-17
- Reinventing Airlines With Onboard Social Networks
- Harvard Business Review editor Thomas Stewart says its clear the airline industry has declared war on its customers. How else to explain American Airlines charging passengers for checked luggage, starting with $15 for the first piece -- even if it's just a briefcase. Stewart wonders why American...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Newspapers Are Learning to Share
- Jeff Jarvis submits: Among the great benefits - yes, benefits - of the internet for newspapers are opportunities to find new efficiencies. Do what you do best and link to the rest is one. Share is another. Newspapers have always been bad at sharing. That’s why they never...
- External links 2009-01-05
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