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twitterati
Martha Stewart Shaken: Truck Crash Ruins Perfect Lawn
David Gregory was recognized by a confused fan; a Wall Street Journal editor was flummoxed by Twitter and Martha Stewart was rattled by an accident. The Twitterati were flustered. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by cheap_sunglasses: The Marthacave does not accept deliveries! Use the service entrance, people... 1 Responses | Other threads
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blogging for dollars
New New York Times Survival Strategy: Become a Fancy Blog-Software Company
Why has the Gray Lady assigned full-time reporters to communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey? Even a Times editor admits the paper will never make money on microjournalism. But they could market software to bloggers. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Jasper Reardon: This isn't a new strategy for the Times, really. For instance, the About.com deal that everyone derided was mostly in... 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Cheating Media Moguls Across the Twittersphere
For the media, Twitter is the new confessional. Xeni Jardin admitted to watching an illicit movie, Peter Kafka overcharged his boss, and Jeff Jarvis admitted to being an all-around fraud. Today's crimes against Twitter: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by abmw: Jardin's tweet is lifted right out of the Classic American novel, "A Confederacy of Dunces", by John Kennedy Toole. 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Twitter Spits on Cold Racists
The Twitterati did not have a good day. Professional web personality Amanda Congdon hates racists, crackpot visionary Jeff Jarvis still hates the media, but TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington is hated most of all! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Shamoononon, Vampire Grater - Now SWF: Also, is it Los Angeles or Louisiana that is full of racists? 3 Responses | Other threads
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los angeles times
A Newspaper's Online Fairy Tale
The editors and writers of the Los Angeles Times could shut off the presses tomorrow and live off its website, media pundit Jeff Jarvis claims. But the numbers don't add up. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Lizstless: Or, you know, maybe like decades of knowledge selling ads actually is worth something and they actually sell for more... 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To
Twitter is supposed to save journalism 140 characters at a time. Media people love it, and we love media people, so let's take a look at what the Twitterati have to say for themselves. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by jbsacks: If rachelsklar knew what she was talking about, she'd use dictionary.com instead. Who wants to type a fuckin' dash into... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
The Top Ten People Who Should Be Unemployed in a Just 2009
Obviously we live in a cruel and absurd universe of well-rewarded idiocy and undeserved second chances, but if we didn't, these are the ten people you'd meet in the nu-depression's breadlines. More »
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By PareeneComment by CodePink: Those women in the LIPSTICK BUNGLE picture really have shiny legs. Holy crap, those are shiny. Are my legs supposed... 13 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
Let's Reminisce About Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly published its 1,000th issue earlier this year—and maybe that was enough, since they're rumored to be considering killing their print edition next year. Let's look back at EW's fun history! Okay: More »
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Comment by the fung: I will never forgive Gleiberman for giving my beloved Anchorman a C+. Never. 4 Responses | Other threads
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jeff jarvis
No Print Media Welfare — Except For Me
Web publishing zealot Jeff Jarvis like to yell Darwinian slogans at print journalists . "There is no divine right for newsroom jobs," he wrote earlier this month. "Nor is printing and trucking an eternal verity of the field." It was surprising, then, to hear the media futurist's complaint about today's cover story on him in the Observer: The paper didn't promote his new dead-trees book! And after he gave the reporter so much of his precious time: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by garbanzo314: @BooWahBabe: Why does not the rest of the world see this? Jarvis simply has skimpy credentials in the new media... 3 Responses | Other threads
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print is dead
How Newspapers Can Reinvent Themselves
With the full onset of consistently declining revenues and mass layoffs, newspapers have now finally accepted the depth of their plight. Now the war wages on as to how — and whether — print can become more commercially viable through innovation. In an article discussing how industries rework themselves to stay relevant, the NYT blissfully throws doubt on her ability to survive in this economic climate. Is there at least some solution that could save the local paper? More » -
media
The Future of Journalism Is In the Hands of Idiots
Jeff Jarvis, former TV Guide and People TV critic and founder of Entertainment Weekly, is now an internet expert. He was one of those guys who became internet-famous back when there were like six bloggers, all of whom were guys whom 9/11 turned into HAWKISH ACTION HEROES, and they all brayed about the Islamist Menace and felt quite proud of themselves for being former liberals who grew balls and for some reason none of them went away? (Another one of those guys is Nick Denton!) Anyway! Then he became an internet futurist, which means spending a lot of time gloating about the death of print and babbling about the future of media gallivanting around to conferences and "consulting" and just wasting everyone's time with obnoxious writing and simplistic evangelizing for a miserable digital future. Now he's in an immature fight with Ron Rosenbaum, who is much smarter than he is, if also old and blinkered, about THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM. It's fucking bleak. More »
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By PareeneComment by BullfightsOnAcid: If listicles and tits are the model then would a listicle of tits be a super model? 3 Responses | Other threads
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jeff jarvis
No one hates journalists like a former journalist
"Something has changed in the last year or two," Slate's Ron Rosenbaum says of Entertainment Weekly founder turned professional conference-goer Jeff Jarvis. "It's the callous contempt for working journalists that grates. It's a contempt for the beautiful losers." True, it's puzzling to watch new media pundits spit in the faces of all the sad, doomed newspaper reporters whose careers are being eroded by the Internet. Rosenbaum goes way longer than Slate ever lets me write, so I've pull-quoted his best 100 words: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by Figaro: I bet FOX and those idiots there will take him once he overstays welcome on other people's blog rolls... ahahhaha.... more » | Other threads
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the 250
Citizen journalists rush to fill Internet's shortage of A-lists
I blame Guy Kawasaki. Ten days after the relentless listmaker joined the advisory board of Vancouver-based citizen journalism hub NowPublic, the site published a link-baiting "The 50 most influential people in New York." We've had this piece in our inboxes since Friday morning, but we couldn't figure out how to get anyone in the Valley to care about a list topped by Noah Brier and Jeff Jarvis. More interesting is me-blogger Anil Dash's take on the genre: "First and foremost, organizations create these lists to promote their own authority." Exactly. We've been pitched to do a Valleywag 100 or Valleywag 40 or whatever by consultants who crank out marketing events for a living. But they balk when we ask for a deck of playing cards emblazoned with the faces of 52 People We Want Gone.
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By Paul BoutinComment by raincoaster: How about a post on "Hot Girls of Valleywag?" Me! Me! Pick me! more » | Other threads
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boycotts
Bloggers Stop Posting AP Stories to Fight AP's "Stop Posting Our Stories" Policy
As we reported last week, the Associated Press sent a copyright complaint to a harmless little left-wing news aggregating site demanding they remove posts that featured "39 to 79 words" of their precious, precious copy. Over the weekend, after outrage from various blogs, they retreated. But they're not giving up! Blogs will bow to them! They will set standards, and blogs will naturally decide to follow these standards on their own accord, because that's how bloggers act! More »
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By PareeneComment by it takes a lot to laugh: @CrankYank: Exactly - pick on some small blog (and a liberal one at that, hmmmmm). I'm still not convinced that... more » | Other threads
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struggling writers
Sad Writer Says Mom Never Noticed His Byline
Jeff Jarvis, who invented Entertainment Weekly, used to work for the Chicago Tribune, where his mom would read his stories and then tell him all about them, because the old coot didn't realize he had written them himself. You know, this kind of thing happens. Just yesterday my wife told me about this crazy new publisher that wasn't going to pay advances or accept returns. The daughter of a newspaper bureau chief told me how her dad couldn't get anyone in the family to read his stuff. But Jarvis, now an angry blogger, isn't like the rest of us. He wants to take out what his mom did to him on an entire profession, so today he said on CNN some local newspaper writers should be fired because of his mother: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by britneyspearstears: @Seeräuber Jenny: Still, more voices are usually better than fewer. ...especially in my head. more » | Other threads
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slate
'Slate' Mean to Hillary, Jeff Jarvis Weeps
Last night, Slate launched their new "Hillary Deathwatch," a recurring feature that will measure Hillary Clinton's odds of winning the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. Right now they have her at 12%. Also there is a little cartoon of Hillary Clinton standing atop a sinking ship. Cute! Entertainment Weekly founder and blog evangelist Jeff Jarvis raves: "I never liked Slate. And now I like them less." The truth comes out! Jeff never liked you, Slate. Him and Salon used to make fun of you behind your back in 1998, after Internet High School let out. [Slate]
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By PareeneComment by CleophusWayne: @derby: Jeff Jarvis? I'm not even sure of that one. more » | Other threads
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quotable
Blogfather Jeff Jarvis on Lacy's Zuckerbomb
Writes Jeff Jarvis, the magazine veteran who turned blogger a few years ago:When it became obvious that the audience was hostile to her — cheering Zuckerberg when he told her to ask a question — she acted hurt, as if this hour was about her. Worse, she told us how tough her job was. It wasn't tough. It was a privilege and she was blowing it. And at the end, when she said that people should send her an email telling her what went wrong, she was so 1994; she didn't understand that the people in the crowd were already coalescing in Twitter and blogs into an instant consensus. Oh, if only there'd been a back-channel chat projected on the screen beside her. Then, she could have seen.
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1938media
Jason and Jeff Are Jerks
I was cruising youTube looking for clips of Jason Calacanis' keynote speech today at the Blog Business Summit. Some of the blogs covering the talk had mentioned Jason was filmed and hoped it would be posted online in the near future. I didn't find JC at the BBS, I found something much better, 1938 Media going off on Netscape's Jason Calacanis, Buzz Machine's Jeff Jarvis collectively call them both a-holes for going after PayPerPost. I don't know who 1938 Media is, but he's my new hero. More » -
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Media Bubble: Hot Properties
• Pinch Sulzberger and cousin Michael Golden hope that a $4 million employee bribe might help them keep their jobs for a little while longer. [NYO] More » -
rocketboom
Midyear predictions: Rocketboom hooks up, Ballmer holes up, Wozniak shapes up
Just like Christmas in July, New Year predictions deserve a mid-year refresher — especially since Valleywag wasn't here for New Year's. Valleywag predicts that by the end of 2006: More »
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dell
Dell starts blog, Internet continues bitchslapping Dell
Dell loses at the Internet again today, as the much-maligned computer maker launches a corporate blog full of first-person press releases and in-house videos. (One clip shows how with Dell's revolutionary Remote Support, customers can get frustrated at customer service technicians on their own screen in real-time.) The tech blogging crowd are rolling their eyes. More » -
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Media Bubble: Nick Denton Not Sleeping Under Bridge Yet
• Jeff Jarvis thinks everything's about the web. We're as shocked as you are. [Guardian] More » -
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Remainders: It's New Year's in July
- Batting .000 on his New Year's predictions, Firefox developer Blake Ross rushes out a second batch:
Citizen journalism will finally topple Old Media, ushering in a remarkable new age of incisive journalism—"That Dude Across the Street Walks His Dog;" "Local Mail Arrives Ten Minutes Past 4." Illegal immigrants will protest the discriminatory name, forcing the blogosphere to rechristen the new model "Asscasting," short for "Broadcasting while sitting on my ass, which will never leave this chair."
- Batting .000 on his New Year's predictions, Firefox developer Blake Ross rushes out a second batch:
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bayosphere
Backfence buys Bayosphere, SF crushed under weight of citizen journalists
Backfence, the community journo site where every writer's a "neighbor" — I think that translates as "comrade" — broke out of its Maryland and Virginia circuit to buy the Bay Area's news-by-the-people site, Bayosphere. More »
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By ndouglasComment by irinaslutsky: now i know why they said no to the March 2 Under the Radar -- they were busy buying stuff,... more » | Other threads
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entertainment weekly
'EW' Copy Stained With Jeff Jarvis' Tears
We can't wait to see next week's issue, containing the highly-anticipated essay on Kung-Fu Hustle as a post-post-modern homage to Six Feet Under, plus exciting new changes to the masthead. More » -
new york magazine
Michael Wolff, embed
NY Mag media reporter Michael Wolff is an official "embed" and is reporting from CentCom. Jeff Jarvis reports: "Today, Gen. Renuart called on him as 'the gentleman with my kind of haircut.' Wolff asked the general whether the media was misrepresenting the progress of the war... or not. 'The media is reality,' the general replied. 'The media is a snapshot of what it sees at that point in time.... The challenge has been the immediacy.... I don't think the media has had an adverse effect... I think most of the commanders are comfortable.' [Ed. note—"the media is reality"? There's a frightening thought.] More » -
tina brown
Remainders
· Petition that actor French Stewart change his name to "Freedom" Stewart [via MeFi] More » -
tina brown
The Week's media bias panel
FilmMagic has pictures from the March 10 media bias panel at Grand Central—presumably taken before the sparks flew. Notice a smiling Janeane Garofalo before moderator Harry Evans told the panelist to stay and sign their books except Janeane because "you don't have a book." See also a smiling Tina Brown before she "dissed" Entertainment Weekly founder Jeff Jarvis. (Jarvis says, "She didn't diss me; she only ignored me; when you're famous, you have to do that all day.") More » -
entertainment weekly
Tina Brown day
Entertainment Weekly founder Jeff Jarvis on a recent brush with Tina Brown: "I was sitting, at random, next to two people who happened to know Tina Brown. She came over to say hello to them. Verbal hugs and virtual kisses...Brown talked about her upcoming TV show on CNBC (and how she's not sure she should do the Oscars if we have a war on... and besides, this is Harvey's year). I tried to be polite and interested and join in the conversation, which is what you do where I was raised, and so I tried to task a simple conversational question: When is the show starting? I get ignored. Poof: I am not there. She looks at me. She does not see me. I mutter to myself, I started a magazine, too, honey, and mine is alive and profitable." That's our Tina! And hey, it's Tina Brown Day at Gawker! (Oh, who are we kidding? Every day is Tina Brown Day at Gawker. All we care about, really, is Tina Brown and expensive restaurants.) Send your Tina stories to tips@gawker.com. More »
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