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Monday, February 11, 2008

Jeff Jarvis on Online Video–And a Shout-Out to BoomTown Video

In this interview with Andy Plesser of Beet.TV, Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine talks about the changes in the production of online video.
At the end, he points to BoomTown’s annoying (and artistic!) work with our little Flip camera as an example of the trend toward the quick and, well, dirty.
Here’s the video:

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Kara Visits DLD in Germany: The Naomi Campbell Edition

Why was supermodel Naomi Campbell suddenly standing right next to German publisher Hubert Burda at the final lunch for his company’s DLD–Digital, Life, Design–conference in Munich yesterday?
I have no idea, nor do I know why Burda broke out into song either–how much do you have to love a media mogul willing to do that?
But I [...]

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Monday, December 3, 2007

Memo to Bill Keller: The Kids Love the Web (Also, Saul Hansell!)

Speaking in London last week, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller delivered a speech that sounded suspiciously like the grumpy rants of Hollywood moguls of late, who don’t like this digital thing one little bit. To his credit, Keller spent the start of the speech in honor of the late legendary Guardian columnist Hugo Young expertly dissecting the appalling attitude of the Bush administration toward the free press.

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

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 [...]

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Kara Visits Jeff Jarvis

When I was in Manhattan recently, I had a lovely breakfast with blogger Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine.
We discussed lot of issues from how Yahoo is not going to make it unless it “explodes” its service (resulting perhaps in a devastated business model) to where the media business is going and other such topics.
We also [...]

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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Free to Be, Rupe and We

Should The Wall Street Journal’s paid site, WSJ.com, become free now that media mogul Rupert Murdoch has bought Dow Jones?
That debate has been all over the Web since News Corp. won its battle to buy Dow Jones (owner of this site) last week, including posts by Jeff Jarvis and Fred Wilson in favor of the [...]

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About Kara

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.

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Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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