Three years ago this spring, Dan Gillmor experienced the future by playing a lead role in it. He wrote about the experience himself in We the Media, on which I’ve gotten a start only this week.
At the time Bruggeman, Gillmor, and Searls virtually pantsed Joe Nacchio, I caught merely a glimpse of a sliver of what’s possible when ubiquitous networking and easy-to-use publishing tools caught hold in the culture. While Tom Wolfe provided the framework for the narrative voice in literary journalism, it’s time for the rest of us to raise the barn.
Dan Gillmor has officially left the Knight-Ridder building and has set up what appears to be his intergalactic citizen-based media headquarters.
Three years ago this spring I wrote this was going to get good. Indeed, it is.
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