Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvisis an American journalist, professor, public speaker and former television critic. He advocates the Open Web and argues that there are many social and personal benefits to living a more public life on the internet...
struggle live-life self
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.
baseball hate dull
I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow
independence cost
The cost of independence has dropped.
forever lasts needs
Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.
years doctors needs
Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)
new-york ku-klux-klan cards
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?
links
Do what you do best, and link to the rest
essentials
Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.
kids differences tvs
Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.
keys people intellectual
Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.
ego care fragility
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
reading writing blogging
The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.
opportunity response sane
The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.
boycott die search
If you want to boycott search and links, then you will die on paper.