Dan Gillmor, one of the smartest and most principled journalists working today, and an avid blogger, is writing a book called "Making the News," about the relationship of blogging to journalism. He's writing the book interactively, soliciting comments from his readers on the outline and drafts. — Read the rest

Dan Gillmor's latest piece in the Columbia Journalism Review extends his Journalism 3.0 thesis ("my readers know more than I do") and talks about "We Media:"

Interactive technology — and the mostly young readers and viewers who use and understand it — are the catalysts.

Dan Gillmor is standing in for Clay Shirky for the morning keynote at Supernova (Clay's flight from NYC was cancelled — Frankston wants to know if he was flying United). His talk: Journalism 3.1b4 — a riff on the Journalism 3.0 talk he gave last year at Emerging Tech (expect an expanded version of this at this year's conference — don't miss it, and don't forget to send your talk-proposals! — Read the rest

Dan Gillmor's Slashdot interview is up today, and it's terrific. Dan's at the head of the pack of tech journalists, and he's worth taking seriously.

People who've been here for more than a couple of downturns say this one's as bad as they've seen, maybe the worst.

Dan Gillmor interviewed Jack Valenti last week in his column and did the impartial thing, representing Valenti's beliefs as fairly as possible. This week, Dan takes Valenti's arguments apart, looking at what Hollywood's agenda really entails:

So the movie and music companies are going back to Congress for another helping.

Dan Gillmor's Sunday column is full of rational exuberance for a tech and morals renaissance.

CUSTOMERS AWAKEN: Everyday people are starting to realize that they are not just "consumers" but customers — that is, they are becoming serious participants in the marketplace of goods and services.

Dan Gillmor, the journalist/blogger who won this year's EFF Pioneer Award, has tried to join the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group mailing list. The BPDG, a nominally "public" group that's writing a law that will neuter the personal computer, turned him down. — Read the rest

Great Dan Gillmor editorial describing how Google has devalued once-precious domain names. Free, fast and accurate, Google's made it possible to immediately locate just about anything online, far more reliably than was possible by punching in random domain-names. The result is that owning _____.com — Read the rest

The Mercury News' Dan Gillmor weighs in: "What happened on Tuesday was an act of war. The American government and military should and will respond in kind. If law enforcement and national security agencies declare war on the American people in the process, they will give the terrorists a gift. — Read the rest

Dan Gillmore is as astute as ever in his column about the NYT's reaction to a Supreme Court decision that it ripped off freelance writers. Best quote: "The publication that considers itself the nation's newspaper of record would rather destroy the record than pay a few dollars to the people who created it in the first place." — Read the rest

Dan Gillmor's guide for PR flacks is both humorous and useful. I'm especially fond of the "No faxes, no snailmail, no packing kernels, no html mail, no attachments" rule. I'm on the organizing committee for a conference, and all proposals were supposed to come in as text in a message. — Read the rest

Dan Gillmor and the ASU News Co/Lab: "An honest admission of an error is transparency. It's not just the right thing to do. It can enhance trust when done right. It can lead to more engagement — by which we mean deeper conversations — among journalists and people in communities."

Dan Gillmor (previously) writes that journalism is at a crisis point, as authoritarian politicians (including, but not limited to, Trump) step up their attacks on the free press, even assassinating their sharpest critics.

Dan Gillmor's got an excellent point about tech platforms: they more they act as technological regulators of what we see (the more they spy on us and filter-bubble us), the more they're going to face calls to be political regulators of what we see.

Participatory journalism pioneer Dan Gillmor (previously) has just launched Co/Lab, a new project at Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism for "creating, testing, and promoting innovations that will help make the news ecosystem more robust and valuable for all participants."

If the Trump administration makes good on its promise to pack all potentially explosive laptops together in a blast-multiplying steel case in the plane's hold, it will be good news for would-be bombers — and bad news for your data security.

U.S. President Barack Obama met with reporters today for the final press conference of 2016, before the new administration is due to take over. Live tweets below. — Read the rest

Donald Trump promised to shut down the free press if elected (the fact that the laws he wants to "open up" don't exist makes him an ignoramus, but not a harmless one) and his first official post-election act was to block the press and then to call for politically motivated reprisals against his press critics.

Dan Gillmor writes: "Time for journalists to declare a boycott on bullshit. Start with muting the sound when Trump lies during the debate."

June's Decentralized Web Summit at San Francisco's Internet Archive was a ground-breaking, three-day combination of workshops, lectures, demos and a hackathon, all aimed at figuring out how to restore the decentralized character of the early internet — and keep it that way.