Jarvis jumps
by henrycopelandFriday, May 20th, 2005
Jeff Jarvis, my go to man for news from the front line in the war between blogging and conventional publishing, quits his job today as online chief at traditional publisher Advance. He’s going to continue walking the line, working with the NYT and a start-up conceived by Upendra Shardanand, a very early buyer of blogads.
Speaking of the bloggers versus journalists, I had an interesting conversation with a traditional publisher earlier this afternoon. He’d just spent a few days around a bunch of bloggers. He told me he was fascinated by the fact that bloggers are obsessed with their traffic/readers/feedback, while most traditional journalists are obstinately oblivious to their readers.
Seems pretty obvious the folks focused on their customers would outpace those who aren’t, right?
May 24th, 2005 at May 24, 05 | 6:30 am
>>He told me he was fascinated by the fact that bloggers are obsessed with their traffic/readers/feedback, while most traditional journalists are obstinately oblivious to their readers
This is complete self-serving horse .. manure - or accidentally in error. If you and he meant not concerned so much with “numbers” of readers than that would make sense. Otherwise the statement is just boldly and horribly wrong.
What say you?
Temple Stark, who posts to Advance.net through Blogcritics as Music and Exec. editor and runs PolState.com (both Blog ad members) and his own site - and is a newspaper journalist who obsesses about readers and how they will read and take in what I am writing. Like pretty much every other journalist I know personally. .. whew.