Jeff Jarvis Quotations

What made the voice of the people somehow less important than the paid professional journalist?

Now that the actual number appears to be lower, that doesn't make this any less of a tragedy or any less of a horrendous failing of our government. Now it's a tragic revision. So it's not as bad as we thought, so it's OK? Of course it's not.

Now that's a case of the pot calling the kettle metal.

If someone is coming from a particular location, a certain ad may be more popular there, ... The system can use all the signals available, and the system itself learns the correlations between them.

I think the best of it is that journalism knows it has not done its best. That is new.

Owning broadcast towers and printing presses were useless. The Web proved to be a better media in a case like this.

Our goal is to create a platform to organize the world's news using the best of technology, community and editors.

Anybody can own a broadcast power now. We're going to have more and more choices. TV will no longer be one-size-fits-all.

The business strategy is if we can get a critical mass of very local content and a local audience, then we can target ads better than we ever could down to a town level.

That's why, when most people are slowing down, at a certain age, he's coming on strong.

This is really the first time since William Randolph Hearst that a young journalist can think like an entrepreneur.

The audience isn't an idiot. The audience can figure out that the mayor didn't have an actual count. They reported what officials said, with no basis in fact to question that in any way. Are they not supposed to report it?

I want students to explore the relationship of the media with the public.

If you want to boycott search and links, then you will die on paper.

Like most other creatives, I struggle with self-sabotage, self-doubt, and feeling like an imposter more often than not. I struggle with expressing myself, because it does sometimes feel easier or safer not to.

I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow

The cost of independence has dropped.

Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.

Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)

I can use my credit card to send money to the Ku Klux Klan, to antiabortion fanatics, or to anti-homosexual bigots, but I can't use it to send money to WikiLeaks. The New York Times published the same documents. Should we tell Visa and MasterCard to stop payments to the Times?

Do what you do best, and link to the rest

Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.

Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.

What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us

The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.

The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.

gossip stopped being mere gossip and became an industry.