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Jeff Jarvis

On AT&T’s new charges for data

June 3, 2010

I think my position is summed up very well by a comment from Nic Wise to a hysterical post by Jeff Jarvis: “While this is going to effect the digerati, 79.75 million of the 80 millions iPhone users in the US will never notice. Except the smaller bill.” As is usually the case, the digerati [...]

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Google is not leaving China. So why pretend it is?

March 30, 2010

Jeff Jarvis is well-known for his love of all-things Google, but his latest Guardian column is probably his most hype-laden yet. I don’t think Jeff is responsible for the headline, but it sums up his position quite well: “Google is defending citizens of the net“. The issue, of course, is China and Google’s decision to [...]

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Translating Google

January 30, 2010

Jeff Jarvis fires off a couple of questions in an apartment in Davos to the Googlers. Here are Eric Schmidt’s answers, with some handy translations from Google-speak. Schmidt: Phones: Will they have a tablet? “You might want to tell me what the difference is between a large phone and a tablet,” Schmidt said. Translation: You [...]

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Why “process journalism” is neither journalism, nor process

July 17, 2009

Jeremy Toeman, talking about the truly absurd “Twittergate”, sums up why process journalism fails: “But this is par for the course if your job is breaking news as fast as possible, as there is no reward for being late nor is there a penalty for being inaccurate.” With process journalism, there is no penalty for being [...]

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The Jeff Jarvis conundrum

November 16, 2008

I have a certain amount of sympathy for Ron Rosenbaum's post about Jeff Jarvis. Like Ron, I used to be an avid reader of Jeff's blog, and liked it a lot. And, like Ron, I've become disillusioned by Jeff and his arguments over the past year. Let's make this clear from the start: a lot [...]

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