Jeff Jarvis

Death, Steve Jobs and Social Media

Francine Hardaway | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Jeff Jarvis, Steve Jobs, Twitter, Tom Merritt, Leo Laporte, Apple, Kevin Marks, Google, Remembering Steve Jobs, Media News

Declamatory media gives us the outline of the facts. Steve Jobs is dead. But then something has to invest those facts with meaning. And that's the job of participatory media.

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Interview: White House's Dan Pfeiffer on How Twitter Pressured Congress to Act on Debt Ceiling Bill

Shira Lazar | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Rachel Sklar, Whitehouse, Dan Pfeiffer, Shiralazar, Whatstrending, Jeff Jarvis, Compromise, Shira Lazar, Technology News

On Friday, President Obama urged citizens to tweet their congressmen and women using the hashtag "#compromise." In the 48 hours after the president's call to action, the hashtag was used more than 22 thousand times, and reached an estimated 36 million users.

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How the #FuckYouWashington Twitter Movement Began: Interview With Jeff Jarvis

Shira Lazar | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: #Fuckyouwashington, Jeff Jarvis, Shira Lazar, What's Trending, Twitter Politics, Twitter Jarvis, Twitter Jeff Jarvis, Technology News

What first began as anger over the debt ceiling negotiations became something much more as tens of thousands of tweets flooded the social stream taking aim at the overall political process.

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3 Simple Things to Do Today Instead of Saying "Eff You Washington!"

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Russell Brand, Social Security, Hashtags, Taylor Swift, Nancy Pelosi, Jeff Jarvis, Twitter, Harry Reid, Medicaid, Medicare, Campaign for America's Future, Debt Ceiling Republicans, Twitter Debt Ceiling, Politics News

The president has embraced the failed policies of austerity economics, and he clings to them even as they're failing in Great Britain and poll numbers show that the American public hates them. But despair not, ye infuriated Americans. Here are three things you can do today.

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New Media Doesn't Kill and Aggregation Isn't Personal

John McQuaid | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Terry Jones, Jay Rosen, Bill Keller, Jeff Bercovici, Jeff Jarvis, Aggregation, Citizen Journalism, New York Times, New Media, Afghanistan, Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post, Journalism, Media News

The debate over news and new media is too often tribal. And though it may make for lively debate, tribalism impairs judgment.

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The Roman Spectacle of Charlie Sheen and the Gladiator Within Us

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Gaddafi, The Shadow, Jeff Jarvis, Fraternity Hazing, Twitter, Sadism, Iraq, Afghanistan, Media, Military Hazing, Piers Morgan, Huffington Post, Sorority Hazing, White America, Charlie Sheen Media, Media News

As we watch uprisings in other parts of the world, we don't recognize that it takes popular participation to stop the bullying. Instead, we fix our own addictions by visiting the modern Coliseum of TV or Twitter to see who said what.

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Note to Malcolm Gladwell: (Social) Media Matters

Kirk Cheyfitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Social Media, The New Yorker, Cairo, Jeff Jarvis, Hosni Mubarak, Media, The Nation, Malcolm Gladwell, Media News

Malcolm Gladwell makes a handsome living endorsing or attacking common wisdom in ways that sound smart. And now, he has wormed his way into the unfolding drama in Cairo.

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The Internet and the Bill of Rights

Francine Hardaway | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics of Egypt, Wikileaks, Jeff Jarvis, Aljazeera, Joe Lieberman, Middle East, Politics News

Whom do we think we are here in America? If I were a young Egyptian, I'd be furious at us. We export all our propaganda, our consumerism, our culture,...

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WeMedia's iPad Economy

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeff Jarvis, Wemedia, magnify.net, Apple, Ipad, Steve Rosenbaum, Technology News

Just a scant four weeks after the launch of the iPad, WeMedia had the wisdom to gather some folks to spend a day exploring the future of the iPad eco...

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140 Characters Politiku

Susanna Speier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Twitter, Alon Nir, Kotel, New York, 140, Angela Shelton, 92nd St Y, #140Char, Oz Sultan, Susanna Speier, Jeff Pulver, Jeff Jarvis, George Haines, Nick Bilton, Melinda Emerson, 140-Characters-Conference, Technology News

April's 140 Characters Conference at the 92nd street Y ran the gamut. Organizer Jeff Pulver sourced more idealistic twitter users than pragmatists, but there were enough in-betweeners to keep conversations unpredictably entertaining.

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Creation Myths: What the Argument That the iPad's Not for Creating Content Really Tells Us

Daniel Sinker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Creativity, Jeff Jarvis, Iphone, Apple, Ipad, Apps, Ipad Review, Apple Tablet, iPad Apps, Ipad Content, Technology News

The popular critique of the five-day-old iPad is that the device is only for consuming content. That it's not possible to create on an iPad. It's an odd critique and says more about the people making it than the device itself.

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Memo to Media -- iPad Won't Save News Industry

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Stephen Colbert, Ipad Release, Newsweek, Apple Ipad, Apple, Jay Rosen, Jav on Tech, Time Magazine, Jeff Jarvis, New York Times, Washington Post, Pew-Internet--American-Life-Project, News Media, Ipad, Technology News

We're living in a transition stage -- a very exciting time in which the "me" in "media" continually and more effectively flexes its muscles. The media's resurrection depends on its understanding of that reality. Not on the shiny, new iPad.

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Facebook Advances the New Unit of Reporting?

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Objects, Jeff Jarvis, Media, Facebook, Future of News, Marissa Mayer, Technology News

The deal is that a social object could be a living version of the whole story around a something.

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Making Sense of the Hyperlocal Landscape

Rachel Sterne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rachel Sterne, Jeff Jarvis, Community, Media News, Media, Citizen Journalism, Journalism, Groundreport, Hyperlocal News, Media News

New media guru Jeff Jarvis calls it the 'Holy Grail.' Michael Gluckstadt's Fast Company feature questioned its '$100 Billion Potential.' So what does ...

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Don't Get Cocky, Twitter

Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeff Jarvis, Elie Wiesel, Twitter, Howard Lindzon, Rachel Sklar, Twitter Lists, Stocktwits, User Interface, Facebook Redesign, Ashton Kutcher, Media News

Even the most loyal users can get turned off by a bad user experience. This is the Internet -- there's always something else waiting in the wings.

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Jeff Jarvis Prostate Cancer "Cured": Doctor

Buzz Machine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeff Jarvis, Jeff Jarvis Prostate Cancer, Cancer, Jeff Jarvis Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Media News

My surgeon called with the results of the pathology report on my prostate cancer. "It's all good news," he said. The cancer was contained to the prost...

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Jeff Jarvis: I Have Prostate Cancer

Buzz Machine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeff Jarvis, Jeff Jarvis Prostate Cancer, Cancer, Jeff Jarvis Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Media News

I have cancer, prostate cancer. When the doctor told me, he said that if you're going to get it, this is the one to get. It made feel as if I'd jus...

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Jeff Jarvis is a-Twitter

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeff Jarvis, Twitter, Journalism, Public Relations, Journalism School, Media News

It's my experience that journalists who routinely call PR people flacks are themselves hacks.

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The New Media Epiphany

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Internet, Dave Troy, Free Press, Myspace, Personal Democracy Forum, AT&T, Josh Silver, Dave Weinberger, Alec Ross, Twitter, James Assey, Danah Boyd, Cultural Divide, Facebook, Amanda Michel, Transparency, Mayhill Fowler, Gina Bianchini, Broadband, Propublica, Net Equality, Andrew Rasiej, Micah L. Sifry, Internet, Jeff Jarvis, Ning, Randy Zuckerberg, Hank Hultquist, New Media, Google, Media News

Two years ago, I had a personal epiphany at the Personal Democracy Forum: New media could change everything... From communications to politics to culture. At PDF '09: more revelations.

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Identifying the Elusive Influencer

Auren Hoffman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Total Customer Value, Twitter, Reggie Love, Walt Mossberg, United Airlines, Jeff Jarvis, TCV, Obama, Influencers, Facebook, Bare Escentuals, Business News

One wouldn't think of a personal assistant as being an influencer but Reggie Love talks to the most powerful person in the world twenty times a day -- he is Obama's personal assistant.

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TwitNotes from #PDF09

Eric Kuhn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Morley Winograd, Gen X, Mccain, Bloggers, Rnc, President Obama, Joe Rospars, pdf09, Obama, Washington Post, Frank Rich, Facebook, Mike Gravel, Iava, Mark McKinnon, Ana Marie Cox, Pdf, Obama 2008, David All, Jeff Jarvis, Skype, McCain 2008, Myspace, Craig Newmark, Twitter, Mayor Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, Macon Phillips, Alec Ross, Barack Obama, Personal Democracy Forum, New York City, Paul Rieckhoff, Gina Bianchini, Randi Zuckerberg, Andrew Rasiej, Simon Rosenberg, Ning, Youtube, Mellennials, Rachel Sklar, 311, Danah Boyd, Media News

Over 1,000 people descended upon the annual Personal Democracy Forum earlier this week. Here are some of my notes -- taken on Twitter, of course -- from the two day conference.

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Reports of the Death of Advertising Are Exaggerated

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Buzzmachine, Online Advertising, Jeff Jarvis, Accountability, Internet Advertising, Death of Advertising, Media News

Newspapers, TV and advertising aren't dying. There may be a few deaths in the family, but the distinguished line of TV, print and advertising inheritors can look forward to a continued life of citizenship.

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Journalism versus the Zombies

Paul Dailing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clark Hoyt, Old Media vs. New Media, Twitter, Zombies, Social Networking, Click and Clack, Nina Totenberg, Lou Dobbs, Media, Facebook, Journalism, Blogs, Sarah Lacy, Npr, Vlogs, Car Talk, Cnn, Jeff Jarvis, Ira Glass, New Media, Fox News, Sam Zell, Media News

The dead rising from their graves to consume the living and overrun the earth, like so many other new trend stories, first broke on Twitter. In its e...

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The Debate Over Online News: It's the Consumer, Stupid

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Associated Press Fair Use, Internet, Tom Curley, Timesselect, Ap, Newspaper Association of America, AP Fair Use, Eric Schmidt, Jeff Jarvis, Associated Press, New York Times, Ap Tom Curley, Online News, Online Newspapers, Saul Hansell, Media News

For me, the key question is whether those of us working in the media embrace and adapt to the radical changes brought about by the Internet or pretend that we can somehow hop into a journalistic Way Back Machine and return to a past that no longer exists.

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My Mother, the Future of Journalism

Rob Fishman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scarsdale Inquirer, Jeff Jarvis, Nicholas Kristof, The Daily Me, Scarsdale, Investigative Journalism, Huffington Post, Online Journalism, Journalism, Media News

The problem with online journalism is that the parts are weaker than the aspirational whole. Handouts, hobbyists and hired guns can fill short-term voids, but the dilemma of modern journalism, in the long run, remains.

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