Jeff Jarvis

A bold and vital book that asks and answers the most urgent question of today: What Would Google Do? In a book that's one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers Google—the fastest-growing company in history—to discover forty clear and straightforward rules to manage and live by. At the same time, he illuminates the new worldview of the internet generation: how it challenges and destroys, but also opens up vast new opportunities. His findings are counterintuitive, imaginative, practical, and above all visionary, giving readers a glimpse of how everyone and everything—from corporations to governments, nations to individuals—must evolve in the Google era. Along the way, he looks under the hood of a car designed by its drivers, ponders a worldwide university where the students design their curriculum, envisions an airline fueled by a social network, imagines the open-source restaurant, and examines a series of industries and institutions that will soon benefit from this book's central question. The result is an astonishing, mind-opening book that, in the end, is not about Google. It's about you.

What Would Google Do?

The author of What Would Google Do? argues that increased openness online is beneficial in today's Digital Age.

How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live

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Gutenberg the Geek

The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture – a worldview shaped by the completeness, permanence, and authority of the printed word. As a technology, print at its birth was as disruptive as the digital migration of today. Now, as the internet ushers us past print culture, journalist Jeff Jarvis offers important lessons from the era we leave behind. To understand our transition out of the Gutenberg Age, Jarvis first examines the transition into it. Tracking Western industrialized print to its origins, he explores its invention, spread, and evolution, as well as the bureaucracy and censorship that followed. He also reveals how print gave rise to the idea of the mass – mass media, mass market, mass culture, mass politics, and so on – that came to dominate the public sphere. What can we glean from the captivating, profound, and challenging history of our devotion to print? Could it be that we are returning to a time before mass media, to a society built on conversation, and that we are relearning how to hold that conversation with ourselves? Brimming with broader implications for today's debates over communication, authorship, and ownership, Jarvis' exploration of print on a grand scale is also a complex, compelling history of technology and power.

The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet

The Gutenberg Parenthesis

Technology has disrupted the news industry--its relationships, forms, and business models--but also provides no end of opportunities for improving, expanding, reimagining, and sustaining journalism.

Imagining New Futures for News

Geeks Bearing Gifts

Wie kann man unter den sich langsam deutlicher abzeichnenden Regeln des Internet-Business und in Zeiten von Web 2.0 erfolgreich sein? Dieser Frage widmet sich einer der bekanntesten Vertreter der Zunft und nimmt Google als exemplarisches Beispiel dafür.

wie man von den Erfolgsstrategien des Internet-Giganten profitiert

Was würde Google tun?

Η Google δεν είναι απλώς η ταχύτερα αναπτυσσόμενη εταιρεία στην ιστορία, είναι ένας εντελώς νέος τρόπος σκέψης. Ο μαέστρος του Διαδικτύου και πρωτοπόρος blogger Jeff Jarvis επέκτεινε αυτή την προσέγγιση στις επιχειρήσεις και στην κουλτούρα, αποκαλύπτοντας πόσο επαναστατική είναι. Σ’ ένα βιβλίο που είναι ταυτόχρονα προφητεία, διανοητικό πείραμα, μανιφέστο αλλά και οδηγός επιβίωσης, ο Jarvis αποδομεί τον μηχανισμό της Google για να ανακαλύψει σαράντα σαφείς και εφαρμόσιμους κανόνες διοίκησης και ζωής. Την ίδια στιγμή, φωτίζει τη νέα κοσμοθεωρία της γενιάς του Διαδικτύου: τις προκλήσεις που θέτει, τις καταστροφές που προκαλεί και τις τεράστιες ευκαιρίες που δίνει. Τα ευρήματά του είναι ορθολογικά, ευφάνταστα, πρακτικά και πάνω απ’ όλα οραματικά, δείχνοντας πώς θα πρέπει να συμπεριφέρεται ο καθένας –από τις επιχειρήσεις και τις κυβερνήσεις μέχρι τους απλούς πολίτες– στην εποχή του Google. «Είναι το έργο ενός ιδιοφυούς οραματιστή που επιτίθεται στο κατεστημένο. Σε πέντε χρόνια πολλοί θα είναι εκείνοι που θα μετανιώνουν γιατί δεν διάβασαν αυτό το βιβλίο σήμερα. Μην κάνετε εσείς αυτό το λάθος». Seth Godin, συγγραφέας του Tribes

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