On the Media’s Bob Garfield interviewed me about the CUNY New Business Models for News Project.
I made one error: the new news organization’s editorial staff after three years is 46; total is 90.
Bob was nice enough to plug my book. Now I’ll plug his, The Chaos Scenario. I just bought a copy. He’s doing lots of neat things publishing it, offering it first on Kindle, offering earlier adopter pricing on the paperback (it increass $1 every Monday), and then coming out with independent distribution in stores. Because he has an nice widget enabling purchase, I’ll embed it here:
glad everybody is getting plugged…
Why don’t you guys give your books away for FREE?
I thought this was the link economy?
Mine has been available for free online since it was published.
That’s technically true, but I doubt anybody has ever read it online. That online version functions more or less as a preview of the real book, which you relentlessly sell, sell, sell.
You’re not really offering the book online for free. Don’t lie or play us for fools.
hello jeff-
hope you are feeling good…hope you may remember me…took a class this spring from you @ CUNY and publish the hyperlocal for westchester county new york, theLoop (www.theLoopny.com)
just want to say i enjoyed this. i thought you both did a great job of distilling a lot of big thinking into a few minutes of radio.
i am working on creating a network of hyperlocals, and trying to find a way to connect those with discernable voices, rather than aggregators or cookie cutters. . think the alternative press of the 60s/70’s (before we were born
)i think there are so many true veterans out here that a network of truly journalistically driven “on-line newspapers” with individual personalities could work.
see you soon.
polly
[...] Jarvis makes no reference to “the link economy” in his recent book plugging exercise on NPR. His new call-me-crazy-but-I’m-an-optimist canned presentation about platforms and ecosystems sounds exciting but in the end seems a lot like mini DIY newspapers very similar to what we have today in terms of a business model–that is, primarily supported by advertising. http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/08/22/newbiznews-on-on-the-media/ [...]
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Eric,
I did lie but not about this. When I said life is too short to deal with trolls, I did mean you.
Once more and I’ll ban you. When that happens, I erase every comment you’ve ever made.
You attack for the sake of attacking. That is the definition of a troll. I’ve had it. Get a life. Blog on your own.
The book is available for free. Hell, man, you’ve put the link in many of your trollish comments yourself.
Enough.
If you attack once more and I get rid of you, I’ll consider it a good side-effect of getting cancer.
You obviously have a much higher threshold for hype if you consider the “free” online version of your book languishing in a forgotten corner of the internet as having any bearing on the free content debate.
Enough, Eric, enough.