Dan Gillmore Takes The Leap

A prediction.  We'll see a lot more of this in 2005. 

Dan Gillmor, one of the top journalists in Silicon Valley, and a great blogger, is leaving the San Jose Mercury to "work on a citizen-journalism project" that has recieved seed funding.

This makes total sense. Personal media, grass roots journalism, citizens media, whatever you want to call it is the future.  Newspapers are the past. Great journalists don't need big papers to showcase their talents anymore.

I applaud Dan for his courage to do this and look forward to seeing what comes out of this "project" he is working on.

Comments

[Andy Nardone]

"We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people." - Bill Moyers

Or do we Bill? This quote is from an AP story dated today. Isn't it ironic that it coincides with the news about Dan Gillmore? Are we blogging because we can or because we feel we have to? Because nobody is talking to us anymore? The revolution will most certainly be blogged.