If It Wasn’t for Me, Would Bob Metcalfe Have Found Ethernet?
Me and Bob: On the one hand, you could say that the conflict I’m about to describe proves that everything goes back to high school. On the other, you could look at it from the perspective of the...
View ArticleSlate’s Ron Rosenbaum Calls Jeff Jarvis ‘The Sarah Palin of Gurus'; Jarvis...
Call it the Rumble in the RSS Reader: Ron Rosenbaum, former Edgy Enthusiast for The Observer and current Slate ‘Spectator’ columnist, took a sharp pin and attempted to pop the increasingly inflated ego...
View ArticleThe Web Guru
If you wanted to wipe out the American media establishment in one blow, you might have targeted the Grand Ballroom on the third floor of the Plaza hotel at around 9 a.m. on Nov. 12. The Foursquare...
View ArticleLineup for November 26th, 2008
What should media organizations do to survive? "We should embrace change,” Jeff Jarvis tells John Koblin. “Instead, too often we fight change. That’s the nature of organizations and institutions that...
View ArticleRosenbaum v. Jarvis Round Four (Five?): Web Guru ‘The Billy Joel of Blog...
Remember how back in November former Observer ‘Edgy Enthusiast‘ columnist Ron Rosenbaum used his Slate ‘Spectator’ column to call out Buzzmachine’s Jeff Jarvis as "the Sarah Palin of Gurus"? At the...
View ArticleJeff Jarvis: ‘Give Government Permission to Fail’
Two years ago, at Davos, the annual summit of great technological and economic minds, a media scion of one of the most powerful journalistic voices in the world was demanding answers from Facebook’s...
View ArticleHow the Social Media Gold Rush Enabled ESPN Scammer Sarah Phillips
Sarah Phillips (Courtesy Deadspin) The self-obsessed world of online journalism came close to a singularity moment early this month, when an up-and-coming young sports columnist was exposed as a...
View ArticleApple’s Free Ride: Why Journalists Treat Product Launches Like News
Last month, America’s reigning (self-appointed, mind you) journalism expert Jeff Jarvis had some harsh words for the 16,000 reporters who traveled to Tampa to cover the Republican National convention....
View ArticleLinkedIn Cofounder Reid Hoffman Kicks Off the 2012 Guardian Activate Summit
Betabeat is reporting today from the Guardian Activate Summit, a meeting of the minds thrown by British newspaper The Guardian to
View ArticleTwitter Suspends Beloved Account @NYTOnIt After Trademark Violation Claims...
Update: Our long national nightmare is over. Twitter has reinstated @NYTOnIt, under the condition that it gets a new logo or
View ArticleNews Corp. To Shutter Its iPad Magazine, The Daily, on December 15th
Rupert Murdoch’s less than two-year-old foray into digital-only publishing has officially come to an end with the news that The Daily,
View ArticleYour Attempts to Get Google Glass Are Pretty Embarrassing
Google announced a campaign this morning that would allow non-developers to score a pair of Google Glass by tweeting a
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