Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis of Advance Publications, the Newhouse empire, was the other corporate media biggie at BloggerCon, making rather a striking contrast with the gentleman from The New York Times, Len Apcar. At BuzzMachine, of course, Jeff Jarvis is himself a voluminous and often counterintiutive blogger. He's a liberal who was radicalized by September 11 and cheered the War in Iraq. He's had a newspaper career in San Francisco and Chicago. He wrote TV criticism for People magazine and TV Guide, and was the founding editor of Entertainment Weekly. In his online eminence within Advance.net for the last nine years, he has become an unbuttoned zealot about the Internet ("the first medium that's owned by its audience") and about blogging ("the highest form thus far of audience content").