Jason Clarke

One of the media/tech gurus I look up to, Jeff Jarvis, has quit his big-media job at Advance.net to strike out on his own as Buzzmachine, LLC. Among other things, Jeff will consult for The NY Times Company and is working on a “stealth-mode” citizen’s media startup.

I first became a fan of Jeff’s when I was a geeky magazine-loving teenager holding my first copy of Entertainment Weekly back in 1993. I also read Jeff at TV Guide, and his Buzzmachine was one of my earliest and most influential blog reads. Though I haven’t always agreed with him, it’s incredibly cool to be able to follow a media mentor from magazines to the web over the course of more than eleven (!) years. Much has changed during that time, and here’s to Jeff’s continued success down the line.

TiVo alert: Network Landscape friend and Media Bloggers Assocation founder Robert Cox is set to appear on MSNBC’s Connected Coast to Coast tonight between 5 and 6pm EST to talk about organizing bloggers.

Glenn Reynolds has a great new article up on TechCentralStation about the power of horiztonal knowledge and how it has changed the world in the past 10 years-

With email, weblogs, bulletin boards, etc., I could, if the topic interested enough people, put together an overnight coalition - a flash constituency - without leaving the restaurant. (And in fact, some folks did pretty much just that recently, and succeeded in killing the “”super-DMCA”" bill before the Tennessee legislature.)

TCS: Glenn Reynolds: Horizontal Knowledge