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News is a subset of the conversation «

Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Buzzmachine - By Jeff Jarvis - May. 21 (Opinion) - Here’s a tale that reveals how journalists tend to think of their role in the conversation that makes up news and society. I think the conversation is happening all around us, with or without the journalists. I teach now that it’s the role of the journalist to add value to that conversation: verification, debunking, facts, reporting, context, platforms, teaching…. The late James Carey defines the role differently. As Jay Rosen explains in the Carey Reader: “The press does not ‘inform’ the public. It is ‘the public’ that ought to inform the press. The true subject matter of journalism is the conversation the public is having with itself.” But I’m seeing that news organizations think it is their role to lead the conversation (they set the agenda), allow the conversation (you may now comment on our story, now that it’s done), and judge the conversation (see Bill Keller’s sniffing at vox polloi). That’s why I went theatrically batshit on Twitter against the BBC for holding the first day of a meeting this week about *social media* under Chatham House Rule, which decrees: “participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.”

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Cookie Madness!

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Buzzmachine - By Jeff Jarvis - Jul. 31 (Opinion) - I just don’t understand Julia Angwin’s scare story about cookies and ad targeting in the Wall Street Journal. That is, I don’t understand how the Journal could be so breathlessly naive, unsophisticated, and anachronistic about the basics of the modern media business. It is the Reefer Madness of the digital age: Oh my God, Mabel, they’re watching us!

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Bizarro identity

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Buzzmachine - By Jeff Jarvis - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - I’m still trying to get my head around Facebook’s moves to become the king of identity online. Hell, if Leo Laporte couldn’t quite figure it out on yesterday’s taping of This Week in Google, then I’m not capable. But here’s where I am. Help me advance this…. I think my problem is this: I want the exact opposite of what Facebook did. I want the Bizarro Facebook. Instead of Facebook controlling my identity, I want to be able to control and publish and set access to and rules for the use of my identity online, allowing Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, anyone access to it under my terms. When I tweeted that, ad man Rishad Tobaccowala tweeted: “you are right. What we want closed (our data) they want open. What we want open (create and transfer) they want closed.” He then added: “When it is so easy to “like” is it really like? A profusion of “liking” will soon be like… Noise.” Agree.

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News(paper) in the cloud ?

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Buzzmachine - By Jeff Jarvis - Apr. 13 (Opinion) - I think it’s possible today to run a news organization — up to the point of publishing — from the cloud, changing not only the production process of news but also its culture. John Paton, CEO of Journal Register, is about to prove it with his Ben Franklin Project. John and I were sitting in my CUNY office as he told me about the technology he’s saddled with at this orphaned newspaper company where he just took the helm. He used a term I swear I hadn’t heard in well more than a decade: “VDT.” That stand for “video display terminal,” the old, dumb box that was wired into newspaper mainframes. I was talking with a bunch of young journalists shortly afterwards and they’d never heard of VDTs (though they thought it could be cured with a shot). Well, Paton still has VDTs.

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Italy endangers the Web

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Buzzmachine - By Jeff Jarvis - Feb. 24 (Opinion) - Dangerous precedent: A judge in Milan has convicted 3 Google execs for privacy violations, holding them responsible for a user-uploaded video on YouTube. Google's response: "It attacks the very principles of freedom on which the Internet is built."

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Cheap Laptops

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Buzzmachine - By Khan - Sep. 15 (Comment) - Online PC shop offering laptops, desktop computers, netbooks, software, video games and mobile phones.

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AP, hole, dig

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Buzzmachine - By Jeff Jarvis - Jun. 16 (Opinion) - The AP is still trying to preserve its way. But, as I often say, protection is no strategy for the future. In the story - which, note, I'm only summarizing here, without the quotes from the AP that might better state its stance (ahem) - the agency comes off like a policy ping-pong game, going back and forth:

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So how would you solve Iraq?

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:18:40 -0800

Buzzmachine - By Jeff Jarvis - Mar. 17 (Opinion) - I come with the question and neither an answer nor an attitude: So how would you solve Iraq? And, no, “getting the hell out of there” is not an acceptable answer, dooming the Iraqis to the civil war many have already declared, and to worsening bloodshed and anarchy. From a humanitarian — that is, a liberal — perspective, we cannot abandon these people to such terror.

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