The Atlantic journalist Taylor Lorenz got more than she bargained for after posting an image of a $22 avocado toast she purchased on Twitter.
“I Seamlessed a $22 avocado toast and this is what just arrived,” she complained, showing a mass of avocado mushed into the corner of a takeout box.
The image also included two pieces of lightly toasted bread which bore streak marks of the fruit as it presumably slid from its intended position.
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I Seamlessed a $22 avocado toast and this is what just arrived pic.twitter.com/PFNzWIeOY5
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) July 29, 2018
“I thought my friends would laugh too at the ridiculousness of it and maybe throw me a fave or two and move on. Of course, it spread faster than that though and within an hour I was receiving harassment on levels I haven’t gotten in months,...
“I Seamlessed a $22 avocado toast and this is what just arrived,” she complained, showing a mass of avocado mushed into the corner of a takeout box.
The image also included two pieces of lightly toasted bread which bore streak marks of the fruit as it presumably slid from its intended position.
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I Seamlessed a $22 avocado toast and this is what just arrived pic.twitter.com/PFNzWIeOY5
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) July 29, 2018
“I thought my friends would laugh too at the ridiculousness of it and maybe throw me a fave or two and move on. Of course, it spread faster than that though and within an hour I was receiving harassment on levels I haven’t gotten in months,...
- 7/30/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
After two previous attempts fell through, Iowa-based Meredith Corporation on Sunday negotiated a $2.8 billion deal to purchase rival magazine publisher Time Inc. — thanks in part to an infusion of $650 million cash from Koch Equity Development, the private equity arm of conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch. But industry insiders are questioning Meredith’s promise that the brothers, well-known for their conservative activism, would remain passive investors and stay out of the day-to-day editorial decisions of Meredith’s new holdings, which include storied brands such as Time, People, Fortune and Sports Illustrated. “The Koch money is very troubling,” said Jeff Jarvis,...
- 11/28/2017
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Edward Snowden needed only 140 characters to shoot down the Donald Trump campaign’s theory that FBI Director James Comey couldn’t have thoroughly reviewed Hillary Clinton’s new emails in such a short period of time. Journalist Jeff Jarvis asked the infamous Nsa whistleblower how long the process would take the Nsa and Snowden answered “minutes-to-hours.” @jeffjarvis Drop non-responsive To:/Cc:/Bcc:, hash both sets, then subtract those that match. Old laptops could do it in minutes-to-hours. — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) November 7, 2016 Comey has been at the center of the Clinton email scandals, clearing the Democratic candidate last summer before bringing...
- 11/7/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Monday night marks the moment armchair pundits everywhere have been waiting for: the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Rather than sitting back and letting the presidential candidates do all the talking, politically minded social media users took it upon themselves to join the conversation, offering up their sharpest commentary and funniest reactions - with GIFs aplenty - for all to see. The fun began in the hours leading up to the debate and continued throughout the 90-minute showdown, with celebrities, regular folks and the candidates themselves taking to Twitter and Instagram to share their feelings about the big event.
- 9/27/2016
- by Andrea Park, @andreaepark
- PEOPLE.com
Trevor Noah’s ascension to hosting “The Daily Show” took over Twitter Monday morning, with a variety of reactions to the 31-year-old biracial South African taking over for Jon Stewart. The Daily Show tweeted out noting there would be another late night host from Africa. Very excited to welcome our next host: @Trevornoah! That’s right – another guy in late night from Soweto. http://t.co/zlNhBmjg6I — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) March 30, 2015 Chris Rock thanked President Obama for Noah’s climb to the top: Thank you president Obama pic.twitter.com/PgFJCCyRTa — Chris Rock (@chrisrock) March 30, 2015 BuzzMachine author Jeff Jarvis...
- 3/30/2015
- by Jordan Chariton
- The Wrap
Facebook disclosed yesterday that the laptops of some of its employees were hacked last month, reassuring the public that no user information was compromised. BBC News covered the story last night, and brought on blogger and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis to weigh in. Jarvis spent the entirety of his appearance scolding the network for its "irresponsible" coverage of the hacking story, accusing the network of creating a "technopanic" and peddling "crap."...
- 2/16/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
Marissa Mayer, the first female CEO of Yahoo, has given birth to a baby boy. The 37-year-old businesswoman announced her pregnancy just a few hours after Yahoo hired her as their newest CEO back in July.
Her husband Zach Bogue (pictured right, with Mayer in 2010) says on Twitter, "Baby boy Bogue born last night. Mom (@marissamayer) and baby are doing great--we couldn't be more excited!"
The couple has yet to name the new arrival. New York University professor and blogger Jeff Jarvis tweets, "Just got a large-group email from @marissamayer. She's crowdsourcing suggestions for Baby Boy Bogue's name! How digital can you get? ... Just to be clear, @marissamayer says she'll take suggestions for a name. Nobody suggest Yahoo, now!"
The birth comes a week before her Oct. 7 due date and three weeks before the CEO will make her first extensive public presentation about her new strategy for the company, which is scheduled for Oct.
Her husband Zach Bogue (pictured right, with Mayer in 2010) says on Twitter, "Baby boy Bogue born last night. Mom (@marissamayer) and baby are doing great--we couldn't be more excited!"
The couple has yet to name the new arrival. New York University professor and blogger Jeff Jarvis tweets, "Just got a large-group email from @marissamayer. She's crowdsourcing suggestions for Baby Boy Bogue's name! How digital can you get? ... Just to be clear, @marissamayer says she'll take suggestions for a name. Nobody suggest Yahoo, now!"
The birth comes a week before her Oct. 7 due date and three weeks before the CEO will make her first extensive public presentation about her new strategy for the company, which is scheduled for Oct.
- 10/2/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
A new job - and a new baby! Newly-minted Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer welcomed a baby boy on Sunday night, she and her husband Zachary Bogue announced on Monday. The 37-year-old's financier hubby shared the good news in a Tweet: "Baby boy Bogue born last night. Mom (@marissamayer) and baby are doing great - we couldn't be more excited!" And the new parents are relying on technology for more than simply sharing their family news. They're also crowdsourcing a name for their son, according to a Tweet by Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor and the author of Public Parts: How...
- 10/1/2012
- by Julia Haskins
- PEOPLE.com
The decision and plan to find a buyer is noteworthy because the Journal Register — whose collection of local publications includes the New Haven Register — engaged in one of the most ambitious efforts by a newspaper owner to chart a new path in the digital world. It went bankrupt once before following an acquisition spree, and emerged as a private company in 2009. ImpreMedia co-founder John Paton became CEO. He assembled an advisory board that included digital journalism evangelists Jeff Jarvis, New York University’s Jay Rosen, and Columbia University’s Emily Bell. Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund that specializes in distressed newspapers, bought the company last year. Despite several experiments to slash the price of newsgathering and production, Paton says today that the digital “transformation is threatened by a decline in print advertising revenue — the Company’s largest revenue source” as well as costs such as pension liabilities that were...
- 9/5/2012
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
- Deadline TV
By Rachel Bennett
Last Saturday night, as I was speaking with my mother on the phone, she mentioned that she was awaiting the Olympic swimming competitions on NBC. “Are they competing again?” I asked, having discovered via Twitter that Michael Phelps shockingly came in fourth place in the 400-meter individual medley race. Luckily, before I had a chance to spill the beans, she informed me the coverage wasn’t live — but many other viewers weren’t as lucky to watch with blissful ignorance.
Since the beginning of the London Olympics, NBC has been heavily criticized for delaying until primetime coverage of such highly anticipated events as swimming and gymnastics. By showing bigger events during prime time, when more people are likely to watch, NBC can make more money from advertisers. But, because of these delays, many Olympics fans who also use Facebook and Twitter can’t avoid having the results...
Last Saturday night, as I was speaking with my mother on the phone, she mentioned that she was awaiting the Olympic swimming competitions on NBC. “Are they competing again?” I asked, having discovered via Twitter that Michael Phelps shockingly came in fourth place in the 400-meter individual medley race. Luckily, before I had a chance to spill the beans, she informed me the coverage wasn’t live — but many other viewers weren’t as lucky to watch with blissful ignorance.
Since the beginning of the London Olympics, NBC has been heavily criticized for delaying until primetime coverage of such highly anticipated events as swimming and gymnastics. By showing bigger events during prime time, when more people are likely to watch, NBC can make more money from advertisers. But, because of these delays, many Olympics fans who also use Facebook and Twitter can’t avoid having the results...
- 8/4/2012
- by Rachel Bennett
- Scott Feinberg
“Don’t be evil.”
Those three words have long served as Google’s unofficial mission statement — a message to doubters that even a megacorporation with absolute market dominance can still be an exemplar of benevolent capitalism. But last week, when the search engine giant announced updates to its privacy policies and terms of service, the blogosphere erupted with fears that Google had finally gone Big Brother on us. Why? Right now, data collected from Google account members by each of its subsidiary products (Google Search, Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, YouTube, etc.) is compartmentalized: Even though you log in to each service with the same account,...
Those three words have long served as Google’s unofficial mission statement — a message to doubters that even a megacorporation with absolute market dominance can still be an exemplar of benevolent capitalism. But last week, when the search engine giant announced updates to its privacy policies and terms of service, the blogosphere erupted with fears that Google had finally gone Big Brother on us. Why? Right now, data collected from Google account members by each of its subsidiary products (Google Search, Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, YouTube, etc.) is compartmentalized: Even though you log in to each service with the same account,...
- 2/1/2012
- by Christian Blauvelt
- EW.com - PopWatch
An interesting insight into how a major news institution is grappling with the digital age
The title of Andrew Rossi's behind-the-scenes documentary about the New York Times made me think of Christopher Hitchens's remark about that paper: "You never know on what page the front-page story will appear…" To British newspaper readers, and certainly journalists, the paper looks very sobersided. To them, our papers may look flashy, trashy, trivial and irresponsible. But Rossi shows how the New York Times has found itself at the centre of an unaccustomed drama: an urgent debate about how newspapers must reinvent themselves in a new digital world. It is a debate in which the Guardian is also a participant.
Page One was evidently filmed before the New York Times appointed its first woman editor, Jill Abramson, in June, and before its coverage of the British phone-hacking scandal caused Rupert Murdoch's executives...
The title of Andrew Rossi's behind-the-scenes documentary about the New York Times made me think of Christopher Hitchens's remark about that paper: "You never know on what page the front-page story will appear…" To British newspaper readers, and certainly journalists, the paper looks very sobersided. To them, our papers may look flashy, trashy, trivial and irresponsible. But Rossi shows how the New York Times has found itself at the centre of an unaccustomed drama: an urgent debate about how newspapers must reinvent themselves in a new digital world. It is a debate in which the Guardian is also a participant.
Page One was evidently filmed before the New York Times appointed its first woman editor, Jill Abramson, in June, and before its coverage of the British phone-hacking scandal caused Rupert Murdoch's executives...
- 9/22/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Jeff Jarvis, writes at BuzzMachine , but his Twitter "venting" at Washington gained national media attention and he explained his disappointment with the government to Howard Kurtz on Reliable Sources. After two glass of wine, Jarvis tells Kurtz he took to Twitter to share his immediate emotion with all politicians and was soon shocked to see how many Americans agreed with him.
- 7/31/2011
- by Matt Schneider
- Mediaite - TV
On the cable news networks, debate over the federal budget stalemate has followed a familiar pattern, with Democrats and Republicans squaring off against each other. Impatience with this rhetoric -- and politicians -- boiled over on Twitter this weekend, when new media pundit Jeff Jarvis launched the catchphrase, #fuckyouwashington. After the news on Friday that budget talks collapsed again, Jarvis, a professor of journalism at City University of New York with high-profile stints at Entertainment Weekly and People magazines under his belt, took to Twitter. On Saturday, he began venting his...
- 7/26/2011
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
On Wednesday, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller -- whose unhinged rage against news aggregators is well-documented -- lobbed an open-ended, rage-baiting tweet on Twitter: #TwitterMakesYouStupid. discuss. It got plenty of responses, including one from David Carr -- whose 319,704 followers would rank him among the top 10 most-followed American newspapers on Twitter: Naw, in proper doses, #TheTwitter makes you smart. A human-enabled RSS that puts you ahead of the news and the curve. Others were, predictably, not so balanced. Xeni Jardin, co-editor of BoingBoing.net, wrote: Well, apparently it makes You stupid, but... Jeff Jarvis...
- 5/12/2011
- by Dylan Stableford
- The Wrap
The January 25th revolution in Egypt was an incredible achievement by its people and a truly inspiring example of the power of peaceful protest. Yet the work towards an effective transition to democratic government within Egypt has just begun. Meanwhile a debate continues to rage in the blogosphere as to the exact role played by social media.
While commentators such as Brian Solis and myself have argued against the off-hand dismissal of social media by Malcolm Gladwell,Evgeny Morozov and Will Heaven, Jeff Jarvis and Jay Rosen made the sobering point that it's silly to argue the issue in absolutist terms. Rosen argues "Factors are not causes," and insists that social media was neither fully responsible for the revolution in Egypt nor irrelevant, and that social transformation is far more complex involving a high degree of mystery.
With sobriety and complexity in mind, I want to take a closer look...
While commentators such as Brian Solis and myself have argued against the off-hand dismissal of social media by Malcolm Gladwell,Evgeny Morozov and Will Heaven, Jeff Jarvis and Jay Rosen made the sobering point that it's silly to argue the issue in absolutist terms. Rosen argues "Factors are not causes," and insists that social media was neither fully responsible for the revolution in Egypt nor irrelevant, and that social transformation is far more complex involving a high degree of mystery.
With sobriety and complexity in mind, I want to take a closer look...
- 2/14/2011
- by Simon Mainwaring
- Fast Company
Following on from this morning's news that two of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers are to start charging, James Harding, editor of The Times, braved the Intertubes for a Q&A with his readers. Although there were no googlies bowled at him, he argued that £2 a week was pretty cheap compared to the £8.50 a week's supply of the dead-tree press versions of his publication would cost. And the online version would bring its readers so much more.
"We can do so much more online," he said. "We can provide video, interactive graphics, personalized news feeds and a chance for people to engage directly with our journalists." The design, he said, would be cleaner, clearer and stronger, with "much of the architecture of the paper, but all of the versatility made possible by digital media."
Harding stressed that the scheme was attempting to change the dynamics of the newspaper business--something that...
"We can do so much more online," he said. "We can provide video, interactive graphics, personalized news feeds and a chance for people to engage directly with our journalists." The design, he said, would be cleaner, clearer and stronger, with "much of the architecture of the paper, but all of the versatility made possible by digital media."
Harding stressed that the scheme was attempting to change the dynamics of the newspaper business--something that...
- 3/27/2010
- by Addy Dugdale
- Fast Company
Patch Media, AOL's local content and advertising platform, has just launched Patch.org, a charitable foundation that aims to cover hyper-local news in communities that are suffering from a dearth of media outlets, the ones the Internet rendered ... obsolete ... hey wait a minute!
Currently available in 41 communities spread over four states--California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York, with another 15 sites opening in Connecticut starting at the end of the month--the service is so full of win for both sides that it's hard not to feel a warm glow inside.
Even Patch's About page has a home-spun feel to it, although there's no denying the quality of the hires--or the site's design. President Warren Webster has had high-level local news experience, and Editor-in-Chief Brian Farnham has come from Time Out New York--Details before that. While the two luminaries on the editorial board are Jeff Jarvis and Phil Meyer.
For AOL, the benefits are endless.
Currently available in 41 communities spread over four states--California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York, with another 15 sites opening in Connecticut starting at the end of the month--the service is so full of win for both sides that it's hard not to feel a warm glow inside.
Even Patch's About page has a home-spun feel to it, although there's no denying the quality of the hires--or the site's design. President Warren Webster has had high-level local news experience, and Editor-in-Chief Brian Farnham has come from Time Out New York--Details before that. While the two luminaries on the editorial board are Jeff Jarvis and Phil Meyer.
For AOL, the benefits are endless.
- 3/25/2010
- by Addy Dugdale
- Fast Company
As you've likely heard by now, the Federal Trade Commission is trying to reign in freebie-grabbing bloggers and graft-happy social media users masquerading as unbiased critics. The agency announced an update to the FTC Act of 1980, the requisite guidelines for consumer endorsements and testimonials. For many, the takeaway has been this: Bloggers Must Disclose Every Single Freebie Sent to Them From Companies--or Pay an $11,000 Fine. Scary.
Pundits quickly bashed the FTC as an old-economy regulator trying to legislate new-media technology. Few considered that the government may actually try to protect consumers from false advertising or bloggers on the take. It's "insanity and inanity. And danger," wrote blogger Jeff Jarvis. "The regulations raise no end of questions."
We asked a few other prominent bloggers what their biggest concerns were about the news, then we solicited responses to those concerns from Richard Cleland, assistant director, division of advertising practices at the FTC.
Pundits quickly bashed the FTC as an old-economy regulator trying to legislate new-media technology. Few considered that the government may actually try to protect consumers from false advertising or bloggers on the take. It's "insanity and inanity. And danger," wrote blogger Jeff Jarvis. "The regulations raise no end of questions."
We asked a few other prominent bloggers what their biggest concerns were about the news, then we solicited responses to those concerns from Richard Cleland, assistant director, division of advertising practices at the FTC.
- 10/7/2009
- by Jennifer Vilaga
- Fast Company
It's been the week of hyperlocal. And by week, I mean the past two days, since Twitter accelerates the online journalism news cycle to roughly the rate at which we breathe. I hadn't finished exhaling the news of Everyblock's sale to MSNBC before Jeff Jarvis's hyperlocal news model hit me like burst of hot air. Each of these rapid-fire developments have significant implications for the narrative of hyperlocal's (possible) emergence, and are worth examining in their own right--and in how they relate to each other.
Last week, a piece I had written appeared in Fast Company magazine about the prospects for hyperlocal. After spending months researching the topic for my thesis at Nyu, I adapted my findings into a shorter, somewhat gimlet-eyed take on the excitement surrounding the hopes for the hyperlocal model. Boiled down to its essence, I found that there is room for some hyperlocal sites to grow and prosper,...
Last week, a piece I had written appeared in Fast Company magazine about the prospects for hyperlocal. After spending months researching the topic for my thesis at Nyu, I adapted my findings into a shorter, somewhat gimlet-eyed take on the excitement surrounding the hopes for the hyperlocal model. Boiled down to its essence, I found that there is room for some hyperlocal sites to grow and prosper,...
- 8/20/2009
- by Michael Gluckstadt
- Fast Company
Community-driven news services have been the next big thing online for years. Can The New York Times or AOL find the $100 billion local-advertising pot of gold?
Outside the local train station, the Maplewood Civic Association maintains a bulletin board plastered with news of jazz festivals and yoga classes for this small, affluent New Jersey town. One day last winter, an unassuming new flyer appeared, nestled between ones hawking a fish tank and a drum set, titled, "Introducing the Local." The flyer describes the Local as "a community Web site by you and for these communities, mentored by The New York Times."
Why is a media titan like The New York Times Co. -- already stretched thin by the challenges of a faltering business model -- dabbling in community news, traditionally the bottom of the journalistic food chain? Call it the Google Effect. The search giant's model, described by author John Battelle as "a billion dollars,...
Outside the local train station, the Maplewood Civic Association maintains a bulletin board plastered with news of jazz festivals and yoga classes for this small, affluent New Jersey town. One day last winter, an unassuming new flyer appeared, nestled between ones hawking a fish tank and a drum set, titled, "Introducing the Local." The flyer describes the Local as "a community Web site by you and for these communities, mentored by The New York Times."
Why is a media titan like The New York Times Co. -- already stretched thin by the challenges of a faltering business model -- dabbling in community news, traditionally the bottom of the journalistic food chain? Call it the Google Effect. The search giant's model, described by author John Battelle as "a billion dollars,...
- 8/17/2009
- by Michael Gluckstadt
- Fast Company
Either during keynote addresses at industry conferences or through enlightening conversations I’ve been a part of, new media visionaries Fred Seibert, Jim Louderback, and Jeff Jarvis have all claimed their kids don’t know (or at least don’t fully realize) the difference between new media organizations (like NextNewNetworks, Revision3, and Blip.tv) and traditional television networks (like CBS, NBC, ABC, and MTV). To the youngins, they’re all online video entertainment destinations, just with different URLs. I haven’t seen any official pre-teen poling data to back up the anecdotal evidence, and I’m pretty sure the stories were at least slightly embellished for crowd/conversation effect. But if the notion that kids today don’t know the difference between a broadcast TV network and an online video network seems at all far-fetched, in a very short while it won’t be. Already, the hours of time children...
- 2/20/2009
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tilzy.tv
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