Public Parts: The introduction

September 14, 2011 by Jeff Jarvis
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Here, friends, is the introduction to my new book, Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way we Work and Live, complete and free. It’s a summary of the thinking in the book.

The excerpt is in Scribd because that maintains the formatting and pretty typography. (Click on the full-screen button at the bottom of the player to blow it up, or click on the link atop to go to the Scribd page.)

Also, below, is the audio version of the intro — with me at the mic, oft-edited.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t tell you that you can go here for links to preorder the book, which is released on Sept. 27. And here is the schedule for the book tour, as it stands.

Public Parts by Jeff Jarvis – Read the Introduction

Here’s the audio excerpt. (If it’s not showing up, try this link; the embed has been a bit wonky for me.) By the way, audiobook fans, you can’t preorder the audio version — oddly — but it will be on sale promptly on Sept. 27.

 

Let me know what you think. I know you will…..

  • sorin7486

    This is going to be great. I can’t wait to get the audiobook.

    • Jonathon

      Me too

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  • eklund

    I am so thankful that you are dong this. It is rare to read a history book at the time the great paradigm changes are happening before us.. an astounding accomplishment

  • http://arinbasu.wordpress.com Arin Basu

    Excellent first chapter of a book. This is an absolute read. I am planning to develop a course on social media and public health education, and I think I am going to keep this book as a required text.

  • cm

    I don’t expect to get a balanced view if you conclude your introductory chapter stating that this book is an advocate for publicness.

    It is really hard to find a dividing line between openness and narcissism. I fear that the majority of traffic falls in the latter category.

    • http://www.buzzmachine.com Jeff Jarvis

      Who said I should be “balanced.” I have a viewpoint. If I didn’t have a perspective, it’d be a damned boring book.
      If and when you read it, I think you will find that I am very respectful to issues of privacy, working hard to study its history and find a definition and find means to protect it.
      But my stand in this book is that privacy is being well-protected and I fear that publicness and its tools — this very net — are vulnerable to control by others. That is the point of the book.

  • http://ppalme.wordpress.com Peter Palme

    Dear Jeff,

    sorry for the sidetrack. Definetely this is a fantastic book and it will be under my christmas tree.
    Just was wondering as you are so much engaged and experienced in the electronic publishing markets under what circumstances you would go for an ebook only rather than a print ?

  • steve

    hi jeff,

    since when does jeffjarvis.com re-direct to buzzmachine?

    curious.

  • http://www.about.me/levitan Peter Levitan

    You had to know this was coming…. http://bit.ly/ivuDi

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  • Zhen Juan Ts’ai

    Hi,

    Will you be releasing each (all) of the other chapters in the same way?

    Surely the answer must be “yes.” (but I have a feeling this is just a marketing technique)

  • Parker Bennett

    I ferreted out this direct link to the .mp3 for those of you with Flash aversion like me:

    http://books.simonandschuster.com/audio_excerpts/9781442346604.mp3

    Thanks, Jeff, great first chapter!

  • http://www.yargon.nl Karel Geenen

    Will there be a Dutch translation soon Jeff?

    • http://www.buzzmachine.com Jeff Jarvis

      Don’t have a Dutch publisher yet.

  • http://jbdcolley.com John Colley

    Hey Jeff

    Its been a long term coming!

    I really enjoyed What would Google Do? I will definitely get out there and either get the audio book or the Kindle version for my iPad.

    Thank you and I hope it really sells well!

    best regards

    John

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  • Carl

    Thank you

  • Bill McMahon

    Thank you very much for having the audio version available here. A very good reader, and writer.
    Something to think about.

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