Boing Boing guest blogger: Dan Gillmor!

We're pleased to present our next guest blogger, Dan Gillmor! Dan is director of the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication. He heads the Center for Citizen Media, an affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Law School and Arizona State, and is author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People (O'Reilly Media, 2004), a book that explains the rise of citizens' media and why it matters.

From 1994 until early 2005 Dan was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com. He joined the Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press. Before that, he was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont. During 2005 he worked on media projects at Grassroots Media Inc. Before becoming a journalist he played music professionally for seven years.

Here's a more complete and up-to-date bio of Dan.

Please welcome Dan to Boing Boing!

[#1 posted by zuzu , March 9, 2009 9:08 AM]

Welcome!

I look forward to your insights on how citizen / community journalism and mobile blogging will shape the coverage of the unwinding econocalypse for the next 10-15 years.

[#2 posted by Raines Cohen , March 9, 2009 9:28 AM]

Welcome to Boing Boing, Dan! (waves hi) Will you be guestblogging about the way citizen journalism has evolved since the publication of We The Media? Also would welcome insights from your experiences with Bayosphere, what happened vs. what was expected.

[#3 posted by cniebla , March 9, 2009 9:50 AM]

WoW! welcome Dan :)

[#4 posted by Rob Beschizza , March 9, 2009 10:03 AM]

Welcome!

[#5 posted by Doran , March 9, 2009 10:16 AM]

WooHoo! Excellent choice. Hi Dan!

[#6 posted by wolfiesma , March 9, 2009 11:16 AM]

I'm sure I read alot of your columns in the San Jose Mercury News, a wonderful paper I really miss since leaving the Bay Area. A bit of serendipity to see you here on my new daily rag. Bienvenido!

[#7 posted by ___kid___chival0us , March 9, 2009 1:10 PM]

why blog when you could be playing instruments

[#8 posted by Jean Whitney , March 18, 2009 3:11 PM]

About Gillmor's latest topic, I disagree that we are an "uncurious" bunch of Americans that let movers and shakers fleece us financially.
It's just not true.
We elected Obama as a means of combating the rich and powerful, realizing full well that such thieves are devious and relentless.