Topic: Jeff Jarvis

Is Print Doomed?

A blogger and a magazine exec square off. Is paper too one-way in an interactive world, or will the Web actually beathe new life into dead trees?READ»

Is Hyperlocal Journalism's Savior?

It's been the week of hyperlocal. And by week, I mean the past two days, since Twitter accelerates the online journalism news cycle to roughly the rate at which we breathe. I hadn't finished exhaling the news of Everyblock's sale to ...READ»

How to Launch a Career With Your Blog

Your blog can get you the career of your dreams. READ»

Personal Branding Hall of Shame Redux

Thank you, Jeff Jarvis. Jeff Jarvis, as you remember, was the blogger who outed Dell for its egregious customer service, which he called “Dell Hell.” Recently, I entered my own “Dell Hellish Dell” when I spent about five ...READ»

Beyond the Freedom to Connect

After the lunch break at Freedom to Connect, Jeff Jarvis, proprietor of BuzzMachine interviewed First Amendment Attorney Robert Corn-Revere. Their wide-ranging conversation addressed how legal precedents in the broadcast media world ...READ»

Is Print Doomed?

A blogger and a magazine exec square off. Is paper too one-way in an interactive world, or will the Web actually beathe new life into dead trees?READ»

Another 10tag for Technorati: 10dreams

Now that Steve Rubel and Jeff Jarvis have started something, I think it might be fun to play along and start a couple of Top 10 tags of our own for Technorati. It really demonstrates to me the power of social networks when I see ...READ»

Stuff By Us, Part Two

Another soundbite from a Davos discussion on user-generated content. In something of a metaphor for the UGC phenomenon, much of the most trenchant stuff came not from the formal panel members but from the audience. Jeff Jarvis, ...READ»

Search-Engine Strategies '09

What's today's best search-engine strategy? "Look beyond the search engines," says What Would Google Do? author Jeff Jarvis, who will give a keynote address at this event. Traditionally, companies looking to get discovered ...READ»

Get Small Fast

I loved Small is the New Big as a little summer meme. Jeff Jarvis riffed on Seth's original post. Seth did, too. The short version: Customer intimacy, speed, flexibility and new opportunities to outsource everything but the core ...READ»

How To Hack Harvard

College tuition has risen more than any other component of the cost of living for the last 18 years. But in the Internet era, information is free and ubiquitous. To the extent education is a knowledge industry, it would seem ...READ»

Dude, You're Getting Dell'd

Or: Are you really ready for the rise of DIY media? We'll let others hash out if Web 2.0 is the right term for what is happening on the Web right now. What is already having an impact on the way we do business is the arrival of ...READ»

FTC Responds to Blogger Fears: "That $11,000 Fine Is Not True"

Bloggers say the FTC is threatening hefty fines if they take freebies. Not true, an agency rep tells Fast Company.READ»

Fast Company Recommended Events December 2009

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My Book, by Me

How to subvert an industry for under $30.READ»

New Rules for Wikipedia?

CNET reported on Friday that Wikipedia, the massive user-collaborated online encyclopedia, is planning on imposing stricter editorial rules and "freezing" pages that contain stable, undisputed content. This move stems from founder ...READ»

Can Anyone Tap the $100 Billion Potential of Hyperlocal News?

Community-driven news services have been the next big thing online for years. Can The New York Times or AOL find the $100 billion local-advertising pot of gold?READ»

• Local Yokels

Twenty Tweets #16

Am beginning to create some sensible order around tweets - so that it remains a fun thing to do but also begin to arrive with significant life purpose.  What is obvious to me is that I am currently subscribed mostly to the ...READ»

Why Start (Up) Now

Amid the gyrations of the stock market, and predictions of a severe economic downturn, I have found myself in the interesting position of launching a start up with my friends at Lullabot and Bond Art + Science. Over the past six ...READ»

Stuff By Us, Part One

A panel at Davos on user-generated content--or "stuff by us"--brought together some interesting folks, including Michael Wolf, the recently ousted president and chief operating officer of MTV, Thomas Glocer, the CEO of Reuters, and ...READ»

Dell Hell Revisited and Personal Branding

Remember “Dell Hell.” That’s when Dell learned – or should have learned – the power of consumer anger. Blogger Jeff Jarvis reamed Dell for its shabby customer service and the story was amplified into a “blame Dell” ...READ»

Will NPR Save the News?

The most successful hybrid of old and new media comes from the last place you'd expect. How NPR's digital smarts, nonprofit structure, and good old-fashioned shoe leather just might save the news.READ»

The Launch of Mediaite.com Further Blurs the Line Between Editorial and Advertising

The Washington Post's Salon Fallout and the Launch of Mediaite.com have brought attention to the blurring lines between "Church and State"READ»

The Media is Social

How FastCompany.com will alter the digital landscape.READ»

Corporate Marketing Is a Conversation

I'm very impressed that Fast Company is opening up its server space to its audience in celebraton of the blogjam 2005. It represents an openness that we don't see much from business publications, and certainly not from the corporate ...READ»