The infallible TV critic, Jeff Jarvis, said the following to me today on Twitter: "You were better at blogging." So what follows is everything I've said about Jeff on Twitter, reposted here on my much better blog. This one's for you, man. I mean it.
about 15 hours ago
@jeffjarvis left a chapter out of his book. http://bit.ly/s0jy
about 16 hours ago
@JeffJarvis asks us to name "dead" newspaper jobs. Apparently, because that would be fun?
1 day ago
@JeffJarvis' new book, WWGD, is reviewed on Amazon by a user who praises its "free is a business model" philosophy. The book costs $17.81.
2 days ago
@JeffJarvis got booted from a meeting and calls it "aggravating." He's aggravated 91 percent of each day, so it's unclear where this ranks.
3 days ago
@JeffJarvis was kicked out of a meeting today. Everyone applauded. But Jarvis says that's just because he's so funny. http://bit.ly/15p5U
6 days ago
If I declare now that I take cash from Bill Gates and then write a book with a title comparing him to Jesus, can I still be credible, too?
6 days ago
@metaprinter notes WWGD author @jeffjarvis takes cash from Google via adsense. In his defense, Jarvis says he's been doing that "for years."
14 days ago
@jeffjarvis Also when Giago sold Indian Country Today, the U.S. captured Saddam Hussein. Now he's dead. So let that be a lesson.
14 days ago
@jeffjarvis Giago says "when I sold Indian Country Today ... it had a weekly circ. of 24,000. It is now on the Internet" and has 7,000 ...
15 days ago
@jeffjarvis How ironic that Jarvis says we can all "steal away" from his forthcoming powerpoint and eventual book, "What Would Google Do."
19 days ago
Are folks like @jeffjarvis seriously arguing that Boston.com links repeatedly to WickedLocal.com as an act of kindness?
19 days ago
@jeffjarvis "put forward" his "standard" for the legality of linking: "Relevance." That's what I always tell cops, all laws are relative.
20 days ago
@jeffjarvis When Gatehouse wins its lawsuit, will you scrap that whole book you're writing about how linking will save society? Please.
Feel free to follow me on Twitter. And let Jeff know you're a big fan.
Comments (5)
I don't get it.... nothing better to do?
Posted by Not very nice | January 13, 2009 12:36 AM
Posted on January 13, 2009 00:36
Aw, mean? Really?
In all seriousness ...
Twitter is a good medium, I believe, for something entertaining. The comments are meant to be overtly "irrelevant," as I describe on my Twitter bio while also having, perhaps, an underlying point.
I don't think what I do on Twitter works for blogging. I don't think what I used to blog works for Twitter. Content should match its medium.
So I apologize if these posts seem "mean" out of context here on the blog. As I said before, I was making a point about the silliness of suggesting tone and content should be the same in both places.
Posted by Lucas | January 13, 2009 9:52 AM
Posted on January 13, 2009 09:52
The internet gives your tweets context. For example - I just saw a blog post on Reflections of Newsasaur where you went on a serious tryant against Jeff in the comments.
Don't imagine all your tweets as individual random acts. Same with your comments.
They are you. This is what I know of you.
1. You are obsessed with Jarvis.
2. You find every opportunity to berate him.
3. You work at National Journal.
The first two points don't speak highly of you. Why go out of your way to be... mean spirited?
It's one thing to disagree - another to just be downright creepy. And combine your tweets with old blog posts, comments, etc (all of which any idiot that knows how to research on Google can find) and you come off as a sick perv.
Just being real with you.
Yes - this is the same person who commented in January - I found your Feb 16th comment and realized it was you. The internet is an ongoing conversation - and all I hear from you is cussing. Nobody likes that guy in the conversation.
Posted by Context is on the web | February 18, 2009 2:04 AM
Posted on February 18, 2009 02:04
You're right. I take almost every chance I get to make fun of Jeff Jarvis' recent outlandish ideas. In general though, I leave him to his own devices. I rarely comment on Jeff's many blog entries, for example.
The thing I love about Twitter are the "direct messages" from prominent media figures who just love poking fun at Jeff. But I can't take credit for being first -- there's that guy from Slate who wrote a whole column deriding Jeff's ideas. And then there's Gawker, who put him on a list of people who most deserve to lose their job. I'm very small potatoes compared to those folks.
But take heart oh anonymous Jarvis fan, a simple Twitter search or blog search will show that for every negative observation I make, there are dozens of adoring comments from folks like you.
Who is writing these posts here anyway? Jeff, is that you?
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Posted on February 21, 2009 17:33
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