Jeff Jarvis Quotes

#1. For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.

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#2. 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?

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#3. Indeed, education is one of the institutions most deserving of disruption
and with the greatest opportunities to come of it.

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#4. There are in fact no masses," said sociologist Raymond Williams, "there are only ways of seeing people as masses."11

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#5. News is a stream of events, questions (and sometimes answers), debate, increasing information, and evolving understanding.

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#6. The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.

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#7. Serving targeted masses of niches - as Google does - is the future.

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#8. Once the industry has been pared to its essence and its essentials, once we determine what matters most and needs protection, once we find the means to support that work, then journalism can grow again.

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#9. digital subscribers produce a new revenue stream estimated at $160 million a year.

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#10. The most successful enterprises today are networks - which extract as little value as possible so they can grow as big as possible - and the platforms on which those networks are built.

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#11. Journalism that matters, arguing that if it is not advocacy, it is not journalism - that is, if it does not strive to have a positive impact on the lives of citizens, then it is not journalism.

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#12. In the real world, the tests are all open book.

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#13. Should we continue to serve people as a mass now that we can serve and connect them as individuals?

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#14. My one great fear about advertising and media is that they, too, will become irrevocably unbundled, that marketers will no longer have need of media,

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

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#16. Mobile isn't just another content-delivery mechanism. Don't try to be mobile first. Be user first. Context over content, that's the lesson of mobile.

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

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#18. 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.

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#19. Your company is the company it keeps.

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#20. This practically unlimited supply of advertisers in a fluid marketplace appears to be a new economic model that may insulate Google from some of the dynamics of an economy built on mass and scarcity. Google has its own economy.

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#21. The cost of independence has dropped.

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#22. When you hand over control, you start winning.

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

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#24. In the future, journalists must ask: How do we encourage and support flows of information?

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

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#26. TV on the internet can now be freed from the need to fill a clock. It can expand past video.

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#27. You don't start communities, he said. Communities already exist. They're already doing what they want to do. The question you should ask is how you can help them do that better.

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

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#29. 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

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#30. Nobody sells native advertising better than BuzzFeed, with an entire staff devoted to creating its trademark listicles and quizzes just for sponsors: How To Rank Your Happiness By Jars Of Nutella

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

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#32. Do what you do best and link to the rest

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#33. Memorization is not as vital a discipline as fulfilling curiosity with research and reasoning ... Internet and Google literacy should be taught to help students vet facts and judge reliability.

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#34. I'd like to see every news organization, large and small, newspaper and blog, sponsor FOIA clubs in their communities to get scores, hundreds, thousands of citizens helping to open up data.

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#35. They are all fighting to know who we are, where we are, and what we want.

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#36. As content creators, we separate ourselves from the public while we create our product until we are finished and make it public - because that is what our means of production and distribution long demanded; only now are we learning to collaborate during the process.

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#37. Make it so obvious even a computer couldn't be confused.

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

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#39. We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.

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#40. Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.

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#41. Note well that investigative journalism springs mostly from two sources: whistleblowers' leaks and beat reporters' expertise.

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

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#43. Where some see a new world disorder, others see the opportunity to bring organization.

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#44. Sometimes, news is best served fresh. Sometimes, it's better when baked.

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#45. We no longer need companies, institutions, or government to organize us. We now have the tools to organize ourselves. We can find each other and coalesce around political causes or bad companies or talent or business or ideas.

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