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The punctuation finds its home
Companies have stupid fetishes about their names. Tribune Company isn’t The Tribune Company, it’s Tribune Company – no damned “the.” Time Inc. isn’t Time, Inc., we were informed when I worked there, it’s Time Inc. In a corporate dining room, there used ...
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Murdoch madness
I’ve had a fair number of press calls on the Murdoch/Bing sillliness and here are the points I’ve been making: Were Bing to pay News Corp. to drop Google, it would be a double-play in Google’s favor: Microsoft would lose money and gain little. News Corp. would lose traffic, ...
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The half-life of news
At a Yale conference a week ago, Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer talked about the life cycle of the value of news in his business. When a piece of financial news come out, it is at its most valuable for a very short time, he said. I asked him later how long that is. “Milliseconds,” ...
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New Business Models for News talk
Here’s my talk on CUNY’s New Business Models for News at our summit in New York: Jeff Jarvis on New Business Models for News 2009 from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo . And here’s my latest Prezi:
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Newspapers want enemies, not friends
On today’s On Point, Michael Wolff, Steve Brill, and I talked about Murdoch and Google and the show’s blog quoted me thusly: But News Corp isn’t the only one making the mistake here. I think the mistake that Google has made in this – and I’m an admirer of Google, I wrote a book to ...
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Gained something in the translation
Tweet : A tweet paraphrased my link-economy line and showed me I’ve been saying more than I thought I have. ** In Twitter today, one @rpaskin paraphrased something I’ve been saying – and said again in my talk at Web 2.0 Expo Tuesday (generously covered in that link by Aneta ...
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Podcast madness
I had the privilege of being on This Week in Tech with Leo Laporte, John Dvorak, and Baratunde Thurston right after appearing on This Week in Google with the aforementioned Leo, Gina Trapani, and Mary Hodder. Much fun.
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The opportunity of bankruptcy
Tweet: How bankruptcy can help a newspaper get theah from heah. Don’t squeander it. ** I fear that Tribune Company – and other newspaper companies – will come out of bankruptcy having squandered the opportunity it presents to rebuild from the ground up. At the New Business ...
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’nuff said
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Nose, face, cut, spite: Blocking Google
Nose, face, cut, spite: Blocking Google
buzzmachine.com — There’s been a swine flu of stupidity spreading about the Murdoch meme of blocking Google from indexing... a site’s content (to which Google always replies that you’ve always been able to do that with robots.txt – so go ahead if ... (more) Nose, face, cut, spite: Blocking Google
WWGD? – The videos (7)
At last! A week of videos comes to an end. Here are the last of the videos from the aborted v-book edition of What Would Google Do? : Here I ask how Googley headhunters would operate: And, finally, a video from Oxford about the future of the university:
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WWGD? – The videos (6)
And they never end: Here’s the sixth day of videos from the aborted v-book edition of What Would Google Do? : A touch dated now, here’s a video I made on my Flip a year ago arguing that it was the Googley way to do video because it serves the creation generation: A very ...
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My advice to German media
I have an op-ed in today’s Welt Kompakt newspaper in Germany giving my advice to a German mediasphere that I see becoming more protectionist. It’s not online (ironically) but so you can see the play, a PDF of it is here and here . This is my original English text: * * * At the ...
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WWGD? – The videos (5)
And they never end: Here’s the fifth day of videos from the aborted v-book edition of What Would Google Do? : First, a lesson in turning a challenge into an opportunity from the German publishers of the Wikipedia Lexicon: This one’s probably not for you. It was intended as ...
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The balance shifts
At yesterday’s New Business Models for (Local) News summit at CUNY , I ran what I called a reverse panel with big media folks – NY Times, Washington Post, Gannett, Star-Ledger, Impremedia, Politico – sitting up front but ordered to listen to the wishes and needs of the people ...
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WWGD? – The videos (4)
Sick of me yet? There’s more to come. Here are two more videos from the aborted v-book edition of What Would Google Do? : An argument to connect even the customers of products into their own instant communities so they can share what they know (attn: GaryVee): And how to win ...
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The future of business is in ecosystems
Last week, I said that the future of news is entrepreneurial (not institutional). Today, a sequel: The future of business is in ecosystems (not conglomerates or industries). At the Foursquare conference last week, I was struck by the miss-by-a-mile worldviews held by the chiefs of big, old ...
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WWGD – The videos (3)
Another two videos from the aborted v-book edition of What Would Google Do? : In this, I recreate at my whiteboard slides some of you have seen about a process v product view of our emerging world: And introducing Schwagman:
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WWGD – The videos (2)
Yesterday, I threatened you with a stream of videos that were supposed to be in a v-book edition of What Would Google Do? . Here are two more. First, a discussion about beta-think – releasing products as betas to learn and collaborate – and the end of the myth of perfection:  ...
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WWGD? – The videos
In addition to What Would Google Do? the book , the ebook, the Kindle book , the audio book , the video , and the PowerPoint , we were planning to release a so-called V-book with videos interspersed throughout the digital text. Never happened. So in a bald effort to drum up sales anew for my ...
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