Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis

Founder, BuzzMachine.com; Columnist, The Guardian

JEFF JARVIS, author of Gutenberg the Geek (Amazon Publishing), Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live (Simon & Schuster, 2011) and What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009), blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism.

He is consulting editor and a partner at Daylife, a news startup. He consults for media companies and is a public speaker. Until 2005, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; reporter for Chicago Today.

Jeff Jarvis: If the government cut off someone’s connection to the Internet they have violated their human rights. 
The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.
Companies too much believe that secrets are their secret sauce.
The first serious discussion of a legal right to privacy in the United States didn’t come until the year 1890 and that was because of the invention of a technology and that technology was the Kodak camera. 
We should be cautious about assuming that we know the shape of the future.
Should companies have secrets?  Sometimes they should, but I think companies too much believe that secrets are their secret sauce. 
Norms take time to catch up to technology, but they are all the regulation we need.