What Would Google Do_ - Jeff Jarvis [129]
I also thank my agent, Kate Lee of ICM—the first agent in the industry to respect blogs as sources of talent and ideas. Kate patiently tolerated my ideas and pushed for better ones until we clicked on What Would Google Do?
My family could not have been more wonderful through the process of writing this book. My brilliant and beautiful wife, Tammy, tolerated my hours and travels and nerves and made it possible for me to write. My son, Jake, showed me the way to the future. My daughter, Julia, gave me an example as a writer in the family. They tolerated me, too. My parents, Joan and Darrell Jarvis, and sister, the Rev. Cynthia Jarvis, encouraged me to be a writer and never pointed out that I was only twenty-four years late in meeting my life goal of publishing a book.
Various employers and colleagues generously enabled me to blog and learn digital ways and I thank them. They include Dean Steve Shepard and Associate Dean Judy Watson of the City University of New York; Steve Newhouse of Advance.net; Jim Willse of the Star-Ledger; Alan Rusbridger, Emily Bell, and the editors of Media Guardian at the Guardian; and Upendra Shardanand and Tom Tercek of Daylife. I also thank the editors of BusinessWeek for assigning me reporting that contributed to this book.
I want to thank Peter Hauck, Margaret Kimble, Scott Karp, Clay Shirky, David Weinberger, Doc Searls, Jay Rosen, Rishad Tobaccowala, Fred Wilson, Paulo Coelho, Paula Bracconot, Gary Vaynerchuk, Edward Roussel, Tom Evslin, Seth Godin, Craig Newmark, Samir Arora, Marc Benioff, Chris Bruzzo, Peter Osnos, Jim Louderback, Mark Zuckerberg, Dave Winer, Umair Haque, Martin Nisenholtz, Jeffrey Rayport, Andrew Heyward, Kevin Rose, David Cohn, Dave Morgan, Nick Denton, Scott Heiferman, Chris Anderson, Steven Johnson, Ken Layne, Matt Welch, Caterina Fake, Stewart Butterfield, Bob Garfield, Jimmy Wales, Joan Feeney, Bob Wyman, Will Richardson, Andrew Tyndall, Rick Segal, Bonnie Arnold, Tim O’Reilly, Henry Copeland, Marcel Reichert, Stephanie Czerny, Jochen Wegner, Hubert Burda, Wolfgang Blau, Claudia Gonzalez Gisiger, the World Economic Forum, the Aspen Institute, Lionel Menchaca, Richard@Dell, Michael Dell, and Dell itself.
Note that I am not thanking Google. I am grateful for Google’s existence, its lessons, and its inspiration—not to mention Marissa Mayer’s quotable advice online. But I want to note that I did not seek access to Google for this book because I wanted to judge it and learn from it at a distance. My admiration of Google, then, does not spring from any relationship with the company but from its incredible example.
Now, in the spirit of transparency and full disclosure:
I have worked for and with many of the organizations I’ve written about here, including the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, the Guardian, Daylife, the New York Times Company, About.com, Advance Publications, Time Warner, Denuo, News Corp., and Burda.
I own stock in various of the companies I’ve written about, including Google (which I bought as I was finishing research so I would follow its fortunes from a different viewpoint; as I write this, in the depth of the financial crisis, my investment is off about 30 percent), Time Warner, Apple, Amazon, Sirius XM, and Microsoft. I have small investments in startups including Covestor and 33Across and have served on the board of Publish2. At various times, I have advised startups including Technorati, Outside.in, and Meetup.
I receive revenue on my blog from various advertisers via Google AdSense and BlogAds.
I will keep an updated list of disclosures on my blog at buzzmachine.com/about-me.
And finally, thank you for reading my book.
Searchable Terms
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About.com, 41, 88–89
Abrahamson, Shaun, 206
abundance, 3, 130–31
AdSense, 5–6, 33, 58