Comments on: Davos07: Media notes http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/01/25/davos07-media-notes/ by Jeff Jarvis Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:37:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Davos07: My big conclusion http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/01/25/davos07-media-notes/#comment-314484 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Davos07: My big conclusion Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:06:15 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=2429#comment-314484 [...] And in technology terms, I believe, the future is not about establishing social networks as walled playgrounds but instead realizing that the internet is the social network. And so the question is how to enable that, how — in Zuckerberg’s term — to find an elegant organization for what is happening there already. [...] [...] And in technology terms, I believe, the future is not about establishing social networks as walled playgrounds but instead realizing that the internet is the social network. And so the question is how to enable that, how — in Zuckerberg’s term — to find an elegant organization for what is happening there already. [...]

]]> By: JoeC http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/01/25/davos07-media-notes/#comment-308176 JoeC Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:39:40 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=2429#comment-308176 The Zuckerberg story resonates with me because I believe in the power of laziness. If you watch Roxanne of Beachwalks.tv, you might remember <a href="http://www.beachwalks.tv/2006/11/28/beach-walk-278-otr-ahhh-laziness/" rel="nofollow">this episode</a>, the genesis of which was <a href="http://joesvideoetc.blogspot.com/2006/11/virtues-of-laziness.html" rel="nofollow">a post I did on my blog.</a> The point is that many times innovation and invention comes from simply not wanting to do dog work. The Zuckerberg story resonates with me because I believe in the power of laziness. If you watch Roxanne of Beachwalks.tv, you might remember this episode, the genesis of which was a post I did on my blog. The point is that many times innovation and invention comes from simply not wanting to do dog work.

]]> By: Will Pollard http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/01/25/davos07-media-notes/#comment-306633 Will Pollard Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:51:10 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=2429#comment-306633 Alan Rusbridger did answer the question in his comment from Davos. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/alan_rusbridger/2007/01/davos.html However I think the version of his words published in print had less rather than more compared to the original post so the comments have not added anything and Jeff Jarvis is still ahead in refining the printed version based on a blog. Alan Rusbridger did answer the question in his comment from Davos.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/alan_rusbridger/2007/01/davos.html

However I think the version of his words published in print had less rather than more compared to the original post so the comments have not added anything and Jeff Jarvis is still ahead in refining the printed version based on a blog.

]]> By: A story from Davos « Kempton’s blog http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/01/25/davos07-media-notes/#comment-306416 A story from Davos « Kempton’s blog Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:40:01 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=2429#comment-306416 [...] A story from Davos Read this interesting story from Jeff Jarvis,  * Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, told what he called a random story — it’s a perfect tale for the medium and the age — about empowering collaboration. His sophomore year at Harvard, while starting his company, he failed to study at all for one of his courses; he didn’t even go to class. So days before the final, he pulled all the pictures he needed to analyze off the web and put them up on a page online with boxes underneath. He emailed the class and said he’d put up a study guide. Sure enough, in moments, the students filled in their essential knowledge on the art. Zuckerberg got an A. And the prof told him that the grades in the class improved 10 percent over previous years. [...] [...] A story from Davos Read this interesting story from Jeff Jarvis,  * Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, told what he called a random story — it’s a perfect tale for the medium and the age — about empowering collaboration. His sophomore year at Harvard, while starting his company, he failed to study at all for one of his courses; he didn’t even go to class. So days before the final, he pulled all the pictures he needed to analyze off the web and put them up on a page online with boxes underneath. He emailed the class and said he’d put up a study guide. Sure enough, in moments, the students filled in their essential knowledge on the art. Zuckerberg got an A. And the prof told him that the grades in the class improved 10 percent over previous years. [...]

]]> By: Will Pollard http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/01/25/davos07-media-notes/#comment-305463 Will Pollard Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:28:18 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=2429#comment-305463 Jeff, I have added this to Comment is Free but may not be the right place. Please mention if you meet someone from the Guardian. My question is for Alan Rusbridger or anyone from the Guardian who cares to comment. When will the print version of the Guardian explain to the readers what the thinking is about an apparent strategy to transition to the web? At the We Media event last year in London, it was suggested that only some news organisations would make the transition. The Guardian policy seems to be to avoid any reference to this in print that might disturb the paying UK audience while leaking all kinds of rhetoric through Buzzmachine to build an online following for advertisers. The Media section often covers ABC figures on print circulation without any mention of the web activities of the same news organisations. This makes very little sense. There was discussion of including digital editions in the ABC numbers but not much has happened. Why is this? Apparently the Davos discussion on Digital Futures is under "Chatham House rules" so the blogging public are not much the wiser. However, Richard Sambrook repeated something that may have come from somewhere... ...a neat way of differentiating journalists and bloggers. "Bloggers suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, journalists suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder." In other words, journalists report and move on and don't always follow up. Bloggers are obsessive, get hold of an issue and won't let go.... So these questions will come up again. Meanwhile why not offer Jeff Jarvis a page on a Saturday somewhere near the main editorial to summarise what has previously been hidden away? Jeff, I have added this to Comment is Free but may not be the right place. Please mention if you meet someone from the Guardian.

My question is for Alan Rusbridger or anyone from the Guardian who cares to comment. When will the print version of the Guardian explain to the readers what the thinking is about an apparent strategy to transition to the web? At the We Media event last year in London, it was suggested that only some news organisations would make the transition. The Guardian policy seems to be to avoid any reference to this in print that might disturb the paying UK audience while leaking all kinds of rhetoric through Buzzmachine to build an online following for advertisers. The Media section often covers ABC figures on print circulation without any mention of the web activities of the same news organisations. This makes very little sense. There was discussion of including digital editions in the ABC numbers but not much has happened. Why is this?

Apparently the Davos discussion on Digital Futures is under “Chatham House rules” so the blogging public are not much the wiser. However, Richard Sambrook repeated something that may have come from somewhere…

…a neat way of differentiating journalists and bloggers. “Bloggers suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, journalists suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder.” In other words, journalists report and move on and don’t always follow up. Bloggers are obsessive, get hold of an issue and won’t let go….

So these questions will come up again.

Meanwhile why not offer Jeff Jarvis a page on a Saturday somewhere near the main editorial to summarise what has previously been hidden away?

]]>