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So you found something wrong on the internet? No worries. Just fix it.
I do sometimes find it tiresome hearing the same old refrains about the internet: 'oh, but it's full of rubbish', 'but there's some terrible misinformation online', 'yes but who has time for all this?'
Clearly I'm not alone. Jeff Jarvis does a good job collating some of his standard rebuttals: There’s junk on the internet. True. There’s junk everywhere (even on bookshop shelves). The mistake is to think that the internet should be packaged and perfected, like media. It’s not media. Blogger Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, says the web is instead a place where we talk and connect.
Your readers are here to help
The folks who told us 67% of Americans are unhappy with the quality of journalism these days may not have come up with any concrete suggestions for how to make them happy again, but Jeff Jarvis has one: invite your readers to collaborate with you.
It’s your newspaper, where will you swing the axe?
One more from Mr Jarvis. He's set up a small survey asking which sections of a newspaper you would cut if you were the owner.
Off the record, for now
Jeff Jarvis has some thoughts on how well 'off the record' can work in our increasingly public world: "The argument for making things off-the-record is that participants will feel freer to talk and to be candid. And that seems to make sense. But at a place like Davos [World Economic Forum], you’re still talking among people who can affect policy, business, brand, media, and careers. And they talk. Just because it’s not in the press or on blogs doesn’t mean such a lapse won’t have an impact.
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