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Dan Gillmor at Inkwell

Dan Gillmor, columnist at the Mercury and one of the first journalists to maintain a weblog, is discussing his new book We the Media on the WELL, with Christian Crumlish, author of The Power of Many, leading the discussion. You can read the discussion here, and you can send comments/questions to inkwell-hosts at well.com.

One inkling of media changes is in the book. In the mid-1980s I was
an avid user of XyWrite, the great DOS word processing program. It had
an internal programming language that could do everything but boil
water for tea. I was puzzled by a small XyWrite programming problem one
day and posted a note on a CompuServe forum asking if anyone could
help me solve it. I came back a day or so later and found several great
replies, including (if memory serves) Australia. That was the first
day I truly got how the power at the edges of networks can serve us
all.

jon posted this at 6:33 PM
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