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The temporary web
Jeff Jarvis worries that streams, such as Twitter, threaten the longevity of the Web.
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Twitter is to web pages what web pages are to old media. Our experience of information is once again about to become fragmented and dispersed.
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My own worry is that I’m twittering more and blogging less. Twitter satisfies my desire to share. That’s mostly why I blog – and that’s what makes the best blog posts, I’ve learned. I also want to store information like nuts underground; once it’s on the blog, I can find it. But when I share links on Twitter, they’ll soon disappear. I also use my blog to think through ideas and get reaction; Twitter’s flawed at that – well, I guess Einstein could have tweeted his theory of relativity but many ideas and discussions are too big for the form – yet I now use Twitter to do that now more than this blog.
Nose, face, cut, spite: Blocking Google
Jeff Jarvis weighs in on Rupert Murdoch's "threat" to pull his sites out of Google's search index.
The future of news is entrepreneurial
Jeff Jarvis argues just what the title says: News' future will involve journalists becoming entrepreneurs and finding ways to meet the demands of smaller audiences.
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What should government do? Broadband for all. I’d start – and stop – there.
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I wish that the capital that has gone into not-for-profit news ventures in cities across the country had gone instead into creating for-profit enterprises: so we can prove the market, so we can learn how to make news sustainable. That is god’s work.
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Guardian to become 24/7 Web-first newspaper
The Guardian's guidelines for being a Web-first newspaper. These are from 2007.
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If we don’t update our site continuously readers will go elsewhere.
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It means publishing more of our news according to the demands of the web rather than the rhythms and expectations of a newspaper
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News’ Forbidden City
Murdoch and other media leaders are meeting in China. Jeff Jarvis thinks they're a self-appointed group of "leaders" only looking for ideas amongst themselves -- ideas to prop up outdated business models.
Is journalism an industry?
Jarvis argues that declining employment numbers are a poor way to gauge the health of an industry -- journalism -- in the midst of major restructuring.
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the fall news as an industry paralleling the end of the industrial economy. That’s not just about shedding the means of production and distribution now that they are cost burdens rather than barriers to entry. It’s about the decentralization of journalism as an industrial complex, about news no longer being based solely on employment.
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So is employment the measure of news? No. Is it the proper measure for every industry? Not necessarily. Is it the measure of the economy? Not as much as it used to be. Media is becoming the first major post-industry. Others will follow. You just have to know where to look.
A poor craftsman blames others’ tools
Jeff Jarvis criticizes a pair of posts from journalists who find no value in Twitter because, Jarvis says, they fail to see how Twitter can be a tool to improve journalism -- "not just violate its age-old dictates."
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In these screeds, we also get a glimpse of these Journalists’ definitions of journalism. I say that news was made into a product by the necessities and limitations of its means of production and distribution in print and broadcast. News is properly a process, I believe. Cohen says, no, it must have a beginning, middle, and end, a narrative he sets, an order he gives, a chaos he rejects. He says elsewhere in his column that presence is necessary to do journalism; he thus says that it takes a reporter to report, that news without the journalist him or herself bearing witness to it is not real news. He puts The Journalist at the center of news. I say the journalist is the servant of news. I tell my students to add journalistic value to what is already being spread – reporting, fact-checking, perspective, answers – but recognize that the news is there with or without them. It is gathered and spread by the people who see it and need it with new tools, like Twitter. Like it or not.
New rule: Cover what you do best. Link to the rest
A 2007 post from Jeff Jarvis in which he gives us the popular catchphrase "Cover what you do best. Link to the rest."
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Cover what you do best. Link to the rest.
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In the rearchitecture of news, what needs to happen is that people are driven to the best coverage, not the 87th version of the same coverage.
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A way for newspapers to make sure others don’t unfairly profit from their work - without erecting a pay wall
John Temple explains the legal theory behind the Marburger Bros. ideas about how to help newspapers fight free-loading aggregators. The brothers and their ideas got wrangled up in the Jeff Jarvis-Connie Schultz firefight a few weeks back.
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To remedy this problem, the Marburgers say, Congress should restore the exception. They want to lift the ban on applying common-law rights against unfair competition and unjust enrichment in the case of news that was established by the INS vs. AP case. They would like a single sentence added to the copyright act. This is what they think it should say: “The copyright act does not abolish statutory or common law unfair competition and unjust enrichment regardless of whether the contested publication infringes copyright.”
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Their proposal would create the opportunity for newspapers to get a court to order “competing commercial free-riders to pay compensation.”
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Politics makes….
Jeff Jarvis reacts to the reaction of Plain Dealer columnist Connie Shultz to Jarvis's earlier criticism of her connection to journalism-related legislation via her senator husband. (Complicated, eh?)
Journalistic narcissism
Journalism has become more about the journalists than about the issues, writes Jeff Jarvis.
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Behold the hubris of that: They decide what is important. Because we can’t. That’s what it says. That’s what they believe.
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The press has become journalism’s curse, not only because it now brings a crushing cost burden but also because it led to all these myths: that we journalists own the news, that we’re necessary to it, that we decide what’s reported and what’s important, that we can package the world for you every day in a box with a bow on it, that what we do is perfect (with rare, we think, exceptions), that the world should come to us to be informed, that we deserve to be paid for this service, that the world needs us.
The King of Twitter
Jeff Jarvis examines what the Iran election and Michael Jackson's death say about news in the age of social networking -- and he finds reason to keep his faith in the crowds.
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Back in 2005, I said that TV news was paying more attention to Jackson’s trial than the audience was, as evidenced by discussion on blogs, which lost interest in the story long before TV did; indeed, they never obsessed on Jackson as TV did and TV believed we wanted to.
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Once the supernova of news explodes – taking down Twitter search and YouTube and jamming GoogleNews search – we probably to seek out TV, but it quickly says all it has to say and the rest is just repetition.
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Posner’s dangerous thinking
Jeff Jarvis responds to a post on Judge Richard Posner's blog, saying that Posner's thinking is outdated and dangerous.
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Good God. Posner is not just trying to mold the new world to old laws – which is issue enough – but is trying to change the law to protect the old world and its incumbents from the new world and its innovators. He is willing to throw out fair comment and free speech for them. That is dangerous.
A newspaper publisher lies
Jeff Jarvis responds to false comments made about Jarvis by publisher Arnold Garson.
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Garson did not bother to research or check his facts and instead chose to libel me just because we disagree and I dare to criticize newspapers’ stewardship of journalism. Who does he think he is - a blogger?
NewBizNews: Paid content models
Jeff Jarvis looks at some of the factors that will feed into new business models for news. He wants to fill these out in as much detail as possible.
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At the end of the day, what we’re trying to do is make hard, unemotional business judgments. The question is not whether content should be free or whether readers should pay; “should” is an irrelevant verb. The question, very simply, is how more money can be made. What will the market support?
The speech the NAA should hear
In anticipation of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's speech to the Newspaper Association of America, Jeff Jarvis presents this speech, which he wishes the NAA membership would hear instead.
What’s a medium?
Are all media converging? Does it matter whether you're a print, broadcast or radio journalist anymore?
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They all learn how to gather news and tell stories in audio, video, blogs, live blogs, wikis, Twitter, social tools, and whatever comes next. Of course, they also learn the eternal verities of journalism and techniques of reporting and writing. They are now exposed to the fundamentals of the business of journalism. As they progress through other classes in their subject specialties, they are required to create stories in various media.
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We also watched our students from any track work in any track. And we’re getting better (and still need to get better) at requiring work in many media throughout the program.
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Journalism students’ role in the new news marketplace
Jeff Jarvis ponders the future of some kind of collaborative assignment network between news outlets that could involve student reporters looking to build their experience and clip files.
The Great Restructuring
Jeff Jarvis on the economy and how the current economic downturn is changing everything
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* Newspapers will vanish. Magazines are in worse shape than I would have guessed and many will go. Books‘ channels of manufacturing, distribution, and sales will go through upheaval.
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* Broadcast media will become meaningless, replaced by digital delivery.
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Whack-a-mole with micropayments
Jeff Jarvis takes a whack at micropayments, which are rearing their heads again
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