http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/ Media's in depth look at the media looking at the new media. NEWS, VIEWS AND A SILICON VALLEY DIARY ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where News is Heading Dale Peskin (Online Journalism Review): Preparing for the Coming Era of Participatory News. Our stories will take us beyond convergence to emergence. There, news becomes the product of a universally distributed intelligence that develops from an interconnected society enabled by interactive media. It occurs in real time, self-regulating, constantly enhanced. He gets it. Read this. ( Posted by Dan Gillmor, 03/28/2002 12:28 PM PST) Journalistic Pivot Points I've been thinking a lot lately about the notion of what I've been calling "Journalism 3.0" -- more accurately termed journalism's next wave. It's based on several principles, including: My readers know more than I do; That is not a threat, but rather an opportunity; We can use this together to create something between a seminar and a conversation, educating all of us; Interactivity and communications technology -- in the form of e-mail, weblogs, discussion boards, websites and more -- make it happen. Yesterday at PC Forum, I was part of a key moment in this evolution. I was blogging a session on wireless technology, and wrote something about SkyPilot, one of the presenting companies. Duncan Davidson, SkyPilot's CEO, finished his presentation and sat on the podium, reading on his laptop, while other people talked. Then, in the Q&A, he corrected something I'd written in the blog. In other words, he'd caught this in near-real time and had better information (he should). I immediately posted another paragraph, which began, "I've been corrected...." Whoa. I'm still not entirely sure what happened. But I do know this. My journey in journalism hit a pivot in that moment. Maybe journalism itself hit a pivot point, as pretentious as that sounds. All I know for sure is that I'm jazzed that it happened, and I'm going to think about it, hard. END Whatever...as long as puts dickheads like declan out of work.
