Dan Gillmor

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Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor in 2005
Occupation	Director, Center for Citizen Media
Website http://www.dangillmor.com

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 Gilmor 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] 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.

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. He has released the book under a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-SA 2.0).

1 Published works
2 Other works
3 External links
4 References
5 See also

[edit] Published works

Gillmor, Dan (2004). We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly. ISBN 0-596-00733-7.

[edit] Other works

We, the Media recorded ([mp3]) at Accelerating Change 2004, November 5-7, 2004.
Dan Gillmor at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival 2005 in Austin, Texas, March 11-15, 2005.
2004 Outlook