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. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 491 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1288 × 1572 pixel, file size: 920 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... The Mercs sections vary by day of the week, but Business, Sports, and The Valley are standard daily fare. ... A view of downtown San Jose, the self-proclaimed Capital of Silicon Valley. ... Dot-com (also dotcom or redundantly dot. ... A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ... Copyright symbol Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. ...

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. Along with The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press is one of the two major metro Detroit newspapers. ... The Kansas City Times was a morning newspaper in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1867 to 1990. ... The Mercs sections vary by day of the week, but Business, Sports, and The Valley are standard daily fare. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... Bayosphere. ...

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. We the Media is a book written by Dan Gillmor, published in 2004 by OReilly (ISBN 0596007337). ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. ...

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. 

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

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External links

• Dan Gillmor's homepage
• Gillmor's weblog on Bayosphere
• Center for Citizen Media
• A short autobiography and his old weblog at SiliconValley.com
• We The Media
• Dan Gillmor Spotcast
• People - Berkman Center for Internet & Society
• Video interview with Dan Gillmor (english language, German intro)
• A video of a lecture titled "We the media: Grassroots Journalism By The People, For the People" from February of 2005
• A video of a lecture titled "We the (Traditional) Media: From Lecture to Conversation" from November of 2006

See also

• Network media