What if we in media are not in the content business? Oh, yes, we will produce content; that’s what we do. But perhaps our greatest value is not in what we produce but in what it produces: signals about people’s interests, about authority, about topics...

Economist's debate on the pros and cons of social media wraps up today. So far, 69% of readers have agreed with Jeff Jarvis, who is defending the motion that "society benefits when we share personal information online". Media Helping Media has published...

Internet. Although relatively not a new phenomenon, the growing development of Web 2.0 further boosts interactivity among Internet users. Hence, it facilitates the transformation of those who simply consume news to those who produce news in the digital...

That extreme transparency may have ruffled some, but the benefits he got were unarguable: He found a network of support and encouraged other men to get tested. This kind of “publicness,” a word he admits is inadequate, must be protected by laws just as...

The tweet has since been removed. The Tweet immediately drew critical response from some in her audience who called her "desperate" and "unethical", and other media watchers who said worse. Noted new media critic Jeff Jarvis tweeted , "Isn't that, uh,...

Jeff Jarvis has some interesting meditations on the future of our information economy: I have been arguing that vertical industries will be replaced by horizontal ecosystems made up of three layers: (1) platforms that enable (2) entrepreneurial ventures...

Jarvis sees an economy of pop-up corporations. (Image via Wikipedia) Jeff Jarvis has some interesting meditations on the future of our information economy: I have been arguing that vertical industries will be replaced by horizontal ecosystems made up of...

While there is no budget line for a dog replacement, the sheriff’s office has funds to buy the dog and train it. Any funds left over will be divided between the DARE program and Sheriff’s Marine Division. Sheriff James Voutour was approached by Joe...

Social networking Does society benefit when personal information is shared online? Or do social networks prompt the publishing of unhealthy amounts of personal data to little benefit? Author Andrew Keen and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis lead the...

The comments and discussion that take place around content are often as valuable as the original content itself. And the community engagement fostered by content sharing is an essential component of what Jeff Jarvis dubbed the link economy. Jarvis...

An appeal to all those who do not want ACTA As you know our freedom – not only in the Net – is endangered. And now we are told, that the American Congress refused to proceed with SOPA and PIPA. Nor is it going to ratify ACTA. Nevertheless the...

Mark Zuckerberg believes he is not changing human nature but enabling it. If you buy that – and I do – then I'd suggest buying his stock, for he has created the platform for the sharing economy. With its own new social network, even Google recognises...

Google's IPO in 2004 was a record $2bn (£1.3bn) Google went public in 2004, issuing an IPO of a then record $2bn (£1.3bn) which gave the company a market value of $23.1bn (£15bn). Digital media expert Professor Jeff Jarvis from the Journalism School at...

"The world moving towards more transparency could be the trend driving the most change over the next ten to twenty years," Zuckerberg said in The Facebook Effect. And as he told Jeff Jarvis for Jarvis' own paean to publicness, the book Public Parts,...

EW investigated the new privacy guidelines to determine what’s changing, what’s staying the same, and what you can do, if necessary, to protect yourself and your information. Here’s what we found out: Google’s subsidiary products has always collected...

An appeal to all those who do not want ACTA As you know our freedom – not only in the Net – is endangered. And now we are told, that the American Congress refused to proceed with SOPA and PIPA. Nor is it going to ratify ACTA. Nevertheless the...

The hook to every song sung at Davos is "jobs, jobs, jobs". The chorus of machers on stages here operate under an article of faith that growth can come back, that they can stimulate it, that this will create jobs, and that all will be eventually well. ...

There are both personal and professional components to it. Many people think that we are over-sharing, while others think that we're divulging way too much personal information. If you're looking to better understand what all of this publicness means,...

“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country – while keeping it available in the rest of the world,”