Supernova: Dan Gillmor
Clay Shirky's plane was cancelled so Dan Gillmor is filling in. Dan is talking about "We Media," the idea that journalism is becoming a conversation, or, he suggests, perhaps more like a seminar in which the journalist is the "sherpa guide." Says Dan: "My readers know more than I do." Maybe you have to be a journalist to appreciate how radical that statement is.
He points to the fact that increasingly the full transcripts of interviews are now being posted by the interviewees � e.g., Donald Rumsfeld � as a way of providing context for comments that the journalist might have misrepresented.
Of all the tools Dan sees emerging, "Blogging is the coolest."
{journalist as politician, briefly, so much flux, so much what was that word? seiche. seiche wave flux. seiche wave social flux. and the journalist as focal point, like a king who truly took on the job, serving all, and all the gobbets and and harps and wenches still, the true burden of the task outstripping gain and luxury, to serve what it seems serves you. that's what he means a little by 'more than I do'. my computer knows more than I do. but it needs me.}
