Comments on: Four optimists, one cock-eyed http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/ by Jeff Jarvis Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:40:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jeff Jarvis http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346785 Jeff Jarvis Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:33:25 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346785 He's as cipher, that Steve.... He’s as cipher, that Steve….

]]> By: Heather Green http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346774 Heather Green Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:52:15 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346774 All ones and zeros! All ones and zeros!

]]> By: Jeff Jarvis http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346771 Jeff Jarvis Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:29:03 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346771 Some reporters go native. Steve has gone digital, eh? Some reporters go native. Steve has gone digital, eh?

]]> By: Heather Green http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346770 Heather Green Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:19:56 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346770 Heya Jeff, Can't resist, just because it's hilarious watching Steve blog these days. His reference to statistics wasn't a plug for his book, it's that that's all he thinks about! And on the blog that's what he talks about all the time, it's v. funny. Heya Jeff,

Can’t resist, just because it’s hilarious watching Steve blog these days. His reference to statistics wasn’t a plug for his book, it’s that that’s all he thinks about! And on the blog that’s what he talks about all the time, it’s v. funny.

]]> By: Walt http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346760 Walt Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:10:51 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346760 Agreed on the folly of regulating media ownership, although that isn't to say there shouldn't be action on this front. It just needs to be action in the opposite direction -- as someone who works for the NAB, I know there are stations in local markets hurting because the ownership rules are too strict. Those rules were written for another day, a time before the Internet and unlimited news sources. Despite the claims otherwise, those stations still can and do produce local programming. Will they pipe in external programming? Of course, that's nothing new. But they won't produce ANY programming if they go off the air... Agreed on the folly of regulating media ownership, although that isn’t to say there shouldn’t be action on this front. It just needs to be action in the opposite direction — as someone who works for the NAB, I know there are stations in local markets hurting because the ownership rules are too strict. Those rules were written for another day, a time before the Internet and unlimited news sources.

Despite the claims otherwise, those stations still can and do produce local programming. Will they pipe in external programming? Of course, that’s nothing new. But they won’t produce ANY programming if they go off the air…

]]> By: Rick Waghorn http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346749 Rick Waghorn Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:34:04 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346749 News on the Internet – news from real communities, new about real governments and real wars – comes from flesh-and-blood reporters. And they’re dispatched from our newsrooms... No, I leave from home; my 'newsroom' is our kitchen table - just as soon as my little man has moved his Nintendo and schoolbooks off it... News on the Internet – news from real communities, new about real governments and real wars – comes from flesh-and-blood reporters. And they’re dispatched from our newsrooms…

No, I leave from home; my ‘newsroom’ is our kitchen table – just as soon as my little man has moved his Nintendo and schoolbooks off it…

]]> By: Tansley http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346686 Tansley Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:57:25 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346686 Well, some would argue newspapers HAVE to say that, in order to please the publishers, the old guard, and the shareholders. What it comes down to, though, is that the changes are happening regardless of what anybody thinks, and in the end, those who fail to change will be passed by. This is the Adam Smith side of Darwin. And I'm sorry, but unless they have an active website, newspapers are NOT multi-media. They are a single, static medium that prints once or twice a day. Once they adopt web technology, they're not 'just' a newspaper anymore...they've put out a lifeboat onto the sea of information technology. The only thing NOT to be optimistic about is being a shareholder of a blinkered instituion that refuses to adapt... Well, some would argue newspapers HAVE to say that, in order to please the publishers, the old guard, and the shareholders.

What it comes down to, though, is that the changes are happening regardless of what anybody thinks, and in the end, those who fail to change will be passed by. This is the Adam Smith side of Darwin.

And I’m sorry, but unless they have an active website, newspapers are NOT multi-media. They are a single, static medium that prints once or twice a day. Once they adopt web technology, they’re not ‘just’ a newspaper anymore…they’ve put out a lifeboat onto the sea of information technology.

The only thing NOT to be optimistic about is being a shareholder of a blinkered instituion that refuses to adapt…

]]> By: Bryan Murley http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346672 Bryan Murley Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:49:29 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346672 Jeff, here's another optimist you might want to add to your pantheon: John Seigenthaler. We interviewed him this weekend in Nashville. <a href="http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2007/03/31/seigenthaler-on-new-media/" rel="nofollow">Here's a short clip of him</a> talking about how optimistic he is about the future as a journalist. Jeff,

here’s another optimist you might want to add to your pantheon: John Seigenthaler. We interviewed him this weekend in Nashville. Here’s a short clip of him talking about how optimistic he is about the future as a journalist.

]]> By: Albert Klamt http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346666 Albert Klamt Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:31:25 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/02/four-optimists-one-cock-eyed/#comment-346666 Jeff, great, refreshing empowering Post! Keep on pushing the edge....I enjoyed already this years Davos conversations in the Blogsphere and I am sure beyond the babsteps are hugest opportunites and leveraging potentials for shifting the power equation even more.... Best, Albert Klamt Germany/Berlin Jeff, great, refreshing empowering Post! Keep on pushing the edge….I enjoyed already this years Davos conversations in the Blogsphere and I am sure beyond the babsteps are hugest opportunites and leveraging potentials for shifting the power equation even more….

Best,

Albert Klamt
Germany/Berlin

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