Dan Gillmor
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 Dan Gillmor in 2005 |
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| Occupation | Director, Center for Citizen Media |
| Website http://www.dangillmor.com |
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Dan Gillmor is a noted American technology writer and former columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. He was one of the leading chroniclers of the Silicon Valley dot-com boom and its subsequent bust. Gillmor is also the author of a popular weblog covering technology news and the Northern California technology business sector, criticizing rigid enforcement of copyrights, and commenting on politics from a frequently left-wing perspective.
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.
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.
From 1994-2005 he was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s daily newspaper, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com. The blog is believed to have been the first by a journalist for a traditional media company. 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.
During the 1986-87 academic year he was a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied history, political theory and economics.
Before becoming a journalist he played music for seven years.
[edit] Other works
- We, the Media recorded ([mp3]) at Accelerating Change 2004, November 5-7, 2004.
We, the media is a book about technology, and about its changes. Now, consumers can become producers of news, and internet has become more interactive, anyone can edit a determinate web page and transmit news to another person or to a group. Blogs, wiki, SMS, etc.
- Dan Gillmor at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival 2005 in Austin, Texas, March 11-15, 2005.
- 2004 Outlook
We, the Media is a book that helps people understand the way Internet is changing and evolving. It talks about eight specific tools that Web 2.0 requires to function. - Mail lists and forums - Weblogs - Wiki: I just use a Wikipedia tool. - SMS: this part of the book talks about the important use of the short message service (SMS) in the journalist and in the life of the users. - Mobile connected cameras: talks about the use of the cameras for beginners and for professionals people. - Internet "Broadcasting" - Peer to peer - RSS
It is a very nice work describing how Web 2.0 works and functions, talking from the perspective of the author and the experiences he is had in his journalism career. Also this is an easy way to understand the evolution of the internet and the new tools that are to our use.
In the book that he wrote, We, the Media he tries to explain the effects of the new web, the new technology that we find in the web media and how we can used, focus on journalism. like the p2p, the digital cameras and web blogs.
[edit] References
- ^ "Digital Media Leader Named Knight Center Director, Kauffman Professor at ASU". Arizona State University. 2007-11-06. http://cronkite.asu.edu/news/gillmor-110607.php. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
