Jeff Jarvis Is Amanda Congdon’s Fair Lady
I knew my incessant interviewing of geeky guys would get me somewhere someday.
BoomTown got a nice shout-out from ABC News’ video blogger Amanda Congdon a couple of weeks ago (I know, a little late, but we just caught up on our obsessive self-searching on the Web) about an interesting video interview I did with BuzzMachine’s Jeff Jarvis about the state of media in the digital age.
For that, Jarvis and BoomTown got the unusual designation in this recent Congdon report’s “My Fair Lady” segment. While we prefer the musical stylings of, say, Stephen Sondheim, we’ll take the Audrey Hepburn comparison, however unlikely.
Congdon especially liked Jarvis’s new catchphrase that he advised old media to follow from here on out: What Would Google Do? I am not sure I would agree that this is the wisdom of the new age, but it’s certainly one direction to row in!
Since ABC does not make the Congdon reports viral (Amanda needs to get busy smacking some MSM types around the network to change that) and embeddable and we’re too tired to look for a rip-off on the Web, use the link above to see her report. In addition, we are posting the Jarvis interview again here:
Comments
I can’t figure out what this guy is about. Most of what he has to say sounds like a load of PR bull. Seems like a fast-talking used car salesman to me. The people who are interested in what he has to say (technologists, engineers, scientists, intellectuals, innovators, etc.) don’t need such a hard sell of vague ideas about the future. I’d like to see Jeff Jarvis say something practical and concrete instead of just kicking around some random, slightly thought-provoking ideas.
Posted by Eric Gauvin at August 30th, 2007 at 7:38 pm