You may very well walk out of the theater after seeing “The Social Network” and think “Wow! That Zuckerberg guy is a genius!” Or you might think, “What a moron!” Or both. That’s why I think the new film about the founding/founders of Facebook is so compelling. It’s an interesting tale of the genesis...
Fellow TED fans … Another one of our favorites, “What Would Google Do?” author Jeff Jarvis, just made his debut talk to TED. (He said the video will be posted in a week or so.) Based on Jarvis’ notes posted on BuzzMachine, it’s an interesting speech on education, media, innovation, Google, collaboration … and...
Fascinated by what’s going on in Iran? BuzzMachine blogger Jeff Jarvis and Thomas Friedman of the New York Times offer a pair of useful commentaries on social networking vs. despotism. In “The Virtual Mosque,” Friedman writes: What is fascinating to me is the degree to which in Iran today — and in Lebanon —...
New media advocate and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis has three words for the newspaper industry: You blew it. In one of the better rants laying out the ineptitude of the industry to adapt in the new millennium, Jarvis comments on the state of newspapers in this BuzzMachine missive in connection with the Newspaper Association...
It’s a sobering glimpse of reality and what may be in our future, but it’s also a compelling new post on Jeff Jarvis’ Buzz Machine. As the author of “What Would Google Do?” points out: I try to argue in my book that what we’re living through is instead a great restructuring of the...
Jeff Jarvis, the one behind BuzzMachine, makes a compelling case for free speech on the Internet in this interview. As you’ll see, he’s an eloquent advocate of the First Amendment and why those who want to censor the Internet need to rethink their position. Watch and appreciate. Note: This video, an interview on the...
