Jeff Jarvis

The Boston Globe's Alternative Future

Can't necessarily give it away. There are huge shutdown costs. When Tribune company "sold" the NY Daily News to Robert Maxwell, Tribune paid Maxwell $60 million to take if off their hands.

A Newspaper Publisher Lies

PastTense: I don't disagree with you. I put it on my personal blog because the guy attacked me personally and I wanted it on the record.

Seeking Alpha has my authorization to pick up any post they want and I usually think they make sensible picks. On this one, I think you're right.

Separately from that, though, the speech is incredible for its head-in-sand protest on behalf of newspapers as they are and were. But that'd be a different post.

- Jeff Jarvis

Welcome to the Google Economy

Bruce Timmons,
I like how you said that: "Manufacturers should shift into a view of selling the utility of the stuff rather than the stuff itself."
When I interviewed VC Fred Wilson for the book and asked him about a Googley car company, he thought for a second and said it was Zipcar. Right: utility over stuff itself.
I then riffed on that with a new vision for a car company as a getting-you-places company.
That, indeed, is a network as you describe it.

Newspapers: Not a Zero-Sum Game - A Minus-Sum Game

And Sam Zell is having to sell Newsday because he doesn't have the cash to maintain the purchase because his purchases in a recession aren't throwing off that cash. Not pretty.

The Google Economy

I look at it another way: Is there anything that will stop Google, anything standing in its way? I don't see it.

Customer Omega for the Airlines

You airline people (I'm so impressed that you can use jargon like "pax") are exhibiting a classic denial of a doomed industry. Thanks for the textbook example. Why should I want to be treated like anything other than shit? Why do I think I deserve not to be screwed by you and your companies. How dare I? The first breath of competition will doom you, especially once protectionism stops coddling you. I fly Silverjet and Eos to London, never standard American airlines. Bye-bye now. Bye-bye.

Customer Omega for the Airlines

Oh, so having a paper ticket is a ticket to hell and a [expletive deleted] from the airline industry. Your protests are the clearest evidence of why this industry is permanently screwed. Screwing your customers is no business model, folks.
Another airline goes bankrupt today.
You airline defenders are all flying fast into oblivion. Bye-bye now.