Jeff Jarvis

Founder, BuzzMachine.com; Columnist, The Guardian

JEFF JARVIS, author of Gutenberg the Geek (Amazon Publishing), Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live (Simon & Schuster, 2011) and What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009), blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism.

He is consulting editor and a partner at Daylife, a news startup. He consults for media companies and is a public speaker. Until 2005, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; reporter for Chicago Today.

The Internet Bill of Rights

Jeff Jarvis: If the government cut off someone’s connection to the Internet they have violated their human rights.

The Only Sane Response to Change

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

What It Means to be Radically Public

Companies too much believe that secrets are their secret sauce.

Why Technology Will Win the Privacy Debate

The first serious discussion of a legal right to privacy in the United States didn’t come until the year 1890 and that was because of the invention of a technology and that technology was the Kodak camera.

A Knowledge of History Keeps Us Open to Surprise

We should be cautious about assuming that we know the shape of the future.

Sometimes It’s Good to Share the Secret Sauce

Should companies have secrets? Sometimes they should, but I think companies too much believe that secrets are their secret sauce.

Surprising Science

How Norms, Not Laws, Can Regulate Technology

Norms take time to catch up to technology, but they are all the regulation we need.

Technology & Innovation

The Only Sane Response to Change

Don’t lament change, find the opportunity in it.

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Don’t Demonize Technology

Author and Journalist Jeff Jarvis warns against the tendency to view new technology as a threat, arguing that this stance cedes power to regulators and corporations that may not have […]

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Technology is Agnostic

The journalist and author believes that the extent to which technology benefits humanity is up to us, its users.

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Jeff Jarvis LIVE Rebroadcast

Tech entrepreneur and author Jeff Jarvis discusses his recent Kindle Single Gutenberg the Geek, and what Gutenberg has to say about entrepreneurism today.

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