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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Jeff Jarvis

1. December 3, 2012 06:50 AM

   Anti-paywall dead-enders

   Why worry about evidence when you can argue against straw men?

   By Ryan Chittum

   In 1944, Lt. Hiroo Onoda was sent by the Japanese Army to the remote Phlippine Island of Lubang with instructions to never surrender to the Allies and to fight to the death. “We’ll come back for you,” his commander wrote. “But until then, so long as you have one soldier, you are to continue to lead him. You may have...

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2. October 26, 2012 02:50 PM

   Appending Larry

   Google's "premature release" spins off another viral meme — and an ethical question

   By Sara Morrison

   A recent Reuters article on Google's prematurely released earnings report noted that a Twitter parody account was created to mock the "PENDING LARRY QUOTE" in the company’s unfinished document: "[W]ithin minutes, though, an unknown prankster set up a "PendingLarry" Twitter feed to hypothesize what the missing quote might be. Among the highlights: 'Man, our privacy was WAY violated today.'" After...

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3. August 21, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: Fake or real Jeff Jarvis?, Wolf on Ryan, robots and labor

   Replacing copyright with something called "creditright"

   By Ryan Chittum

   This may seem like a Fake Jeff Jarvis post, but it's real-life Jeff Jarvis: Creators don’t need protection from copying. That’s futile. Copying can’t be stopped. Thus copying is no longer a way to exploit the value of creation. People don't need protection from stealing. That's futile. Stealing can't be stopped. So what do creators need protected? What are their...

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4. December 23, 2011 05:05 PM

   Audit Notes: Newsstand Success, Paywalls and Tacos, WSJ on Debt Collectors

   By Ryan Chittum

   How much has Apple's Newsstand increased sales of magazine apps. It's hard to say, but Peter Kafka posts a chart showing Popular Science, at least, has clearly benefited: That spike toward the end coincides with the launch of Newsstand, which looks to have sent Popular Science app subscriptions roughly a quarter to a third above the trendline. As it stands,...

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5. November 14, 2011 01:16 PM

   Debating Starkman’s “Confidence Game”

   Rounding up responses

   By Alysia Santo

   Dean Starkman’s critique of future-of-news gurus Jeff Jarvis, Clay Shirky, and Jay Rosen, among others, made a bit of splash, as these things go. C.W. Anderson, an assistant professor of media culture at CUNY’s College of Staten Island, tweeted this shortly after the publication: @Chanders: In honesty: actually curious to see if @deanstarkman's piece can lead to a real debate...

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6. June 28, 2011 04:03 PM

   The Article Is Journalism’s Yellow Mustard

   Launch pad: Newsbound.com

   By Josh Kalven

   CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by Josh Kalven, founder of Newsbound, can be found here. If you’re the sole founder of an early-stage startup and you’re beginning to execute your concept, there’s a moment where you actually feel the company growing inside of you. You feel...

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7. December 21, 2011 11:00 AM

   The Hole In FON Theory

   Continuing the discussion about the future of news with Clay Shirky

   By Dean Starkman

   I thank Clay Shirky and other posters for their responses to “Confidence Game: the limited vision of the news gurus.” Since Clay and I are going to differ on a few things, I’ll start with a sentiment worthy of a faculty club cocktail hour, namely, that I’m pleased with how the debate has unfolded. I appreciate Shirky’s straight-from-the-shoulder tone—it’s...

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