I’ll take Jeff Jarvis at his word that he did not see these two Twitter @ questions posed to him by me @mootsman this week.
This may be a first: Posting old Tweets on a blog. Note times, dates and methods.
Credit due to Jeff for responding rapidly to blog post/critique.
Odd that a blog post was faster than Twitter. That, too, may also be a first. Journalists are many things but never shy.
(Note to Twitter: You’re product may have a blindspot.)
I will update my previous blog post to reflect Jeff’s comments, and I hope to hear from him if newsprint is out for any WWGD? book reviews.
I know it’s crazy to ask, but why not explore New Media/Old Media and their places in the delivery of news, commentary, book reviews, etc? Isn’t that what New Media is all about? Voices. Discussion. Ideas. Tweets? Twirhls? Twollos? It used to be letters to the editor, vetted and filtered. No more.
*Note: I did “unfollow” the Jeff on Twitter late this week, a bit out of disappointment. I will re-follow as a courtesy to see if this blog notion has legs.
Here are the original Twitter Qs from me to Jeff Jarvis. They came in reply to him (lower image) asking a “news printing professional” if his title was oxymoronic.
I thought your second was a rhetorical comment – rhetorical comments requiring no response since their raison d’etre is to comment.
The answer to the first is that it was in the paper – but I saw the tweet two days after the paper was out.
@metaprinter That’s Me!
This whole thing started when I asked Jeff about his usage of Google Adsense
http://metaprinter.com/images/jeffjarvis1.jpg
Then he responded:
http://metaprinter.com/images/jeffjarvis2.jpg
Some of Jeff’s are good but damn if he isn’t one ornery old man. I asked the question in all honesty, and he then personally attacks me.
What’s funny though is usage of oxymoron. He says, “what is a “newspaper printing professional”? isn’t that fast becoming oxymoronic?”
I don’t know Jeff, the last time I checked newsPAPERS were still manufactured via a printing press and the people who operated those presses are pros.
An oxymoron is “a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction”.
So where is the contradiction? Is Jeff telling me there is fast becoming a way to put ink on paper other than printing? Or that I and people like me are not professional?
Whatever, I still read Buzzmachine and follow Jeff on twitter and will continue to do so. I won’t let his crappy attitude get in the way of my thirst for knowledge.
Robert Ivan
Newspaper Printing Professional
(oh, i also run metaprinter.com semi-pro)
I gather we’ll be seeing more book reviews of WWGD? in newspapers (and online, and on television, associated with sound-bite punditry on stories about the demise of newspapers). Some are quick to say printed news is in a death spiral. But it still has value (depending on your needs). Any literary agent would love an opportunity to be in The New York Times Book Review printed section. I’ll look for a review of WWGD? in the NYT since I’m sure part of the book promotion includes PR and marketing. In the end, it’s about moving merchandise in exchange for dollars. Otherwise, you give it away free, a la Chris Anderson of WIRED/Long Tail fame.