Gillmor talks "We the Media" on the WELL

By at 11:41 am Saturday, Oct 9

Dan Gillmor is being publicly interviewed on the WELL about his fantasic "Journalism 3.0" manifesto, We the Media. All comers welcome.
OhmyNews is one of the most important new-media experiments anywhere in the world. It was the right publication at the right time.

I do discuss some work outside the U.S., though the book is based more on what's happening here than elsewhere. It turns out that I have a longish section about OhmyNews, as I visited them about 18 months ago while researching the book. I was dazzled by what I saw.

OhmyNews was launched in a place that was already well-wired for the Net. The news environment was ideal, in a sense, for a genuine opposition publication -- because three big newspapers had about 80 percent of the market share. Korea was at the cusp of political changes, and the reform-oriented candidate was a great vehicle for OhmyNews, which clearly helped elect him.

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