Grassroots Journalism By and For the People July 28, 2004

With millions of readers-reporters operating on the Internet, Big Media's monopoly on news will continually evolve from lecture to conversation, and journalism in the 21st century will look remarkably different from that which we suffer today. Dan Gillmor, a mainstream journalist who posts his own blog, talks about the changing face of worldwide communication in We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People. "The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West," says Paul Graham in Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age. Our desktops, phones, cameras, cars (and soon our televisions) have all become computers. This truly is the computer age and Graham paints a future world that will be largely drawn by today's hackers.

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