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Dan Gillmor is an American technology writer, who maintains a popular weblog covering technology issues. He criticizes rigid enforcement of copyrights, and comments on politics from a frequently left-wing perspective.

As columnist for the San Jose Mercury News from 1994-2005 Gillmor was one of the leading chroniclers of the Silicon Valley dot-com boom and its subsequent bust. His weblog at SiliconValley.com is believed to have been the first by a journalist for a traditional media company. Before joining the Mercury News was with the Kansas City Times, several newspapers in Vermont and then for six years with the Detroit Free Press.

Dan Gillmor is the author of the book "We the Media" (2004), chronicling how the Internet helps independent journalists combat the consolidation of traditional media, using new internet tools including weblogs, RSS, SMS and peer to peer.

He left the Mercury News in January 2005 to work on a grassroots journalism project, called Bayosphere. He is also currently involved in the online travel application project called Dopplr.

Dan Gillmor is director of a new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard.

==External Links==
*Wikipedia bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Gillmor
*Personal website/blog: http://dangillmor.com

==See Also==
*[[Steve Gillmor]]

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