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Monday, January 10, 2005
Big developments in the blog world seem to happen every day. To wit:
Many in the technology community know who Dan Gillmor is. If you don't, he is the now-former tech columnist at the San Jose Mercury News who actually, willingly resigned his prestigious and well-paying gig as one of the leading tech journalists in the world to... start a blog.
Say what? Well, surely it's because he's got dollar signs in his eyes.
Nope. Gillmor's got ambitious goals beyond simply making money. He wants to help lead or at least assist in the development of this new form of "grassroots journalism." Last July, he wrote a book about this transformation of the old rules of media, called We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People.
His new blog, which launched last week, is similarly called Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc. Don't have much to say about it yet, because I just discovered it today, but suffice it to say that Dan's blog is now part of my RSS reading list powered by Sage, syndicated in Firefox.
If you need any more evidence that this new era is rapidly upon us, consider the Asian tsunami disaster. Business 2.0 columnist Om Malik rightly points out that the disaster's first news was reported not by CNN, but by average folks with camera phones and mobile blogging capability. He believes that this decade will reinvent news in much the same way that cable news defined the 1990s and network news took flight in the 1960s.
With all the attention bloggers are garnering, it's clear that the revolution has officially been bloggerized.
Posted by
Cory Kleinschmidt
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