Yes (Carl) Scan

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger.

In his worthy campaign -- dubbed Yes We Scan! -- to become America's public printer, or head of the Government Printing Office, Carl Malamud will take to the Twitter-waves at noon (Pacific Time) today to give a mini-speech of tweets about his plans. Then he's off to Washington to make more waves of the political sort.

Follow the Twitter campaign here.

There's a whimsical element to all this. But Carl is the real deal, and his idea is not only sensible but important.

Go for it, @carlmalamud --

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Dan Gillmor

-- Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Arizona State University -- Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society (Harvard) -- Author, "We the Media” (O'Reilly Media, 2004) -- Former columnist/blogger, San Jose Mercury News

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