Devil's dictionary, new media. Jon Garfunkel has noticed that a new verb has entered the language, via David Weinberger: jarvis, in this sentence on Joho the Blog, "I'm jarvising on MSNBC this afternoon." Jeff Jarvis's own proffered definition ("to have psycho fit") is clearly defective; Jon has asked a few of his correspondents for lexicographic help, and I'm glad to oblige:

jarvis, v. intr. 1. To measure the utopian potential of a new medium by the scope it provides one's capacity for self-promotion. "Once he started podcasting, he jarvised endlessly about how podcasts were going to reshape the media landscape."

2. To rely on old-media platform(s) to hype the advantages of new media. Broadly, to promote any new technology or practice by means of the technology or practice it is supposed to replace. "He jarvised about how blogs would kill traditional journalism in all his TV and print interviews."

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