Quotes by Jeff Jarvis

“Now thats a case of the pot calling the kettle metal.”

“gossip stopped being mere gossip and became an industry.”

“The business strategy is if we can get a critical mass of very local content and a local audience, then we can target ads better than we ever could down to a town level.”

“I think the best of it is that journalism knows it has not done its best. That is new.”

“The audience isnt an idiot. The audience can figure out that the mayor didnt have an actual count. They reported what officials said, with no basis in fact to question that in any way. Are they not supposed to report it?”

“Now that the actual number appears to be lower, that doesnt make this any less of a tragedy or any less of a horrendous failing of our government. Now its a tragic revision. So its not as bad as we thought, so its OK? Of course its not.”

“Hes the trumpet players trumpet player,”

“We love working with him,”

“Thats why, when most people are slowing down, at a certain age, hes coming on strong.”

“What made the voice of the people somehow less important than the paid professional journalist?”

We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.

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

You hand over control, you start winning.

Make it so obvious even a computer couldnt be confused.

Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.

There is an inverse relationship between control and trust. Trust is more of a two-way exchange than most people, especially those in power, realize. Leaders in government, news media, universities, and corporations think they can own trust, when, of course, trust is given to them. Trust is earned with difficulty and lost with ease. When those institutions treat constituents like masses of fools, children, miscreants,or prisoners, when they simply dont listen,its unlikely they will engender warm feelings of mutual respect. Trust is an act of opening up. Its a mutual relationship of transparency and sharing. The more ways you find to reveal yourself and listen to others, the more you will build trust, which is your brand.

The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.

Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.

In the real world, the tests are all open book.

We no longer need companies, institutions, or government to organize us. We now have the tools to organize ourselves. We can find each other and coalesce around political causes or bad companies or talent or business or ideas.