Difference between revisions of "Dan Gillmor"
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| + | Dan Gillmor is an American technology writer, who maintains a popular weblog covering technology news. He criticizes rigid enforcement of copyrights, and comments on politics from a frequently left-wing perspective. | ||
| + | As former 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. | ||
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| + | He is also the author of a book, We the Media, published in August 2004, chronicling how the Internet is helping independent journalists combat the consolidation of traditional media. "We the media" is a quick guide of all the new internet tools for journalists, he talks about weblogs, RSS, SMS, peer to peer and how all this tools will change communications. | ||
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| + | 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[1] and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. Gillmor worked at the Detroit Free Press and the Kansas City Times before moving to the San Jose Mercury News in 1994. He left the Mercury News in January 2005 to work on a grassroots journalism project, called Bayosphere, launched in May 2005. Nowadays he is also involved in an online travel application project called Dopplr. | ||
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| + | He joined the Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press. Before that, he was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont. | ||
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