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.

As debt ceiling negotiations continue to crumble, many Americans are upset at the inability of politicians to compromise on a deal. Journalism professor Jeff Jarvis tapped into this frustration with a Twitter chant that caught fire and exploded all over the internet last weekend: #F*CKYOUWASHINGTON

Details are continuing to emerge about the tragic events happening today in Oslo. A terrorist group known as Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami, or “Helpers of the Global Jihad” has released a statement claiming responsibility for the attacks, that have been responsible for the deaths of seven people so far, according to The New York Times. The AP reports that the bombings of government buildings are connected to a man dressed up as a police officer who opened fire on a group of Labor party members earlier today. The man was soon arrested by Norwegian police. UPDATE – the individual has been identified as a Norwegian native and appears to have no affiliation with Islamic extremists.

As journalists, we just don’t cover suicides. It’s a rule. But as I learned early on as a reporter, there are always tons of exceptions. Oh, the person is threatening to jump from a highway overpass? We cover that. It affects traffic. Oh, the suicide was the son of the police chief? Um, I think we cover that. Hang on, let me check.

The suicide “rule” boils down to something like this: we don’t cover suicides (unless they’re visual, interesting, or we find some other compelling argument for doing so.)

While the internet is virtually going bezerk over news that Arianna Huffington is now Michael Arrington‘s boss, it’s nice to take a break to remember those who have come before us, carving their way through the competitive world of media before any of us had to lose sleep over SEO or slideshows. So, in that vein, here’s a pretty cool bit of media history: We’ve been able to find Jeff Jarvis‘ original pitch for Entertainment Weekly, from way back in 1988.

MediaWeek is reporting today that Time Inc. title Entertainment Weekly will soon be changing their publishing schedule so that the magazine will show up to its subscriber base and newsstands on Friday. This new move is meant to attract more advertising dollars from retail and food industries because readers will now get their issues in advance of the weekend. While the knee-jerk reaction by many is that this is a sure sign of EW‘s imminent demise, the truth is that it’s actually a vote of confidence by Time Inc., and more likely means that it will be around for a long time.

The end is nigh! Again. But will it be the end of free content across the board, or will it be the end of the NYT dominance on the web? We shall see. Over the weekend it was once again reported the NYT may be charging soon. Here’s a look at the reactions.

In a blistering speech at the World Newspaper Conference, Hinton echoed his boss Rupert Murdoch‘s suspicions about the Internet. Along with the pugnacious quote above (though who actually says “the news is viral?”), he compared old media entering the web to “an over-eager middle-aged dad,” criticized aggregators and “thieves” for the newspaper industry’s nosedive, and called out Jeff Jarvis as a moony-eyed leader of “the information-must-be-free imperative:”

After enduring mountains of mockery at the hands of bloggers for saying he wants to get his sites off Google, word has gotten out that Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corporation is in talks with Microsoft. Talks that involve taking News Corp content off of Google and putting it on Bing. And getting paid for it. Who doesn’t understand the Internet now?

Right now Jeff Jarvis and CUNY are hosting their “New Business Models For News” conference which attempts to wrangle with wild, runaway world of new-old media every year, financed by the burgeoning bank of the link economy. It’s a great line-up of speakers (see here) and they’ve put various models online for those at home [...]

Yesterday morning, I was up early with big plans for knocking out a few Twitter Lists, boom boom boom. Ha. As if. I could NOT believe how what a time-waster it was — not only do you have to add everyone one by one, but you can’t even type a name in quickly – you have to type in the name in the search box, search, then click on a drop-down menu to select the applicable list. Really? How about just go through your list and CLICK A BOX? But no, multi-adds aren’t possible and won’t be for a while.

On May 20, 2009, Drew Olanoff was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. Amazingly, instead of crumpling in the face of such a diagnosis, he has turned it into an amazing social media experiment in awareness-raising, encouraging people to blame his cancer for anything and everything, creating a link between thousands of strangers who get a lesson in relativity and perspective every time they blame the day’s irritations on, well, Drew’s cancer.

Right now the Aspen Institute is holding a forum called Of the Press: Models for Preserving American Journalism, featuring media thinkers like NPR President Vivian Schiller, Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli, Google VP of Search and User Experience (and Very Long Titls) Marissa Mayer, new media pan-guru Jeff Jarvis, MediaNews CEO Dean Singleton, former [...]

Gina Trapani knows how much time you waste. Not because she’s secretly watching you through your computer — though she probably could, she’s that smart — but because, as the founding editor of Lifehacker, she’s made a career out of finding ways to improve productivity and efficiency in your wired life. She’s probably saved thousands [...]

A quick glance at our Twitter feed yesterday revealed that Gawker’s Nick Denton was a panelist at this year’s Apsen Institute Ideas Festival. It was a double glance actually — Nick Denton and the old guard Aspen Institute are not the likeliest of bedfellows. Topic? The death of media, naturally!