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Dan Gillmor Launches Grassroots Journalism

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-forward-with-dan dept.

kbahey writes " Most Slashdotters know Dan Gillmor from his San Jose Mercury days, with lots of article on technology over the years, from the dot-com era down to now. As has been rumored before, Dan has left the SJ Mercury to found a 'grassroots journalism' project. Well, it is here, and called the Bayosphere. The site is powered by Drupal, an open source Content Management System. Jay Campbell, Dan's Technologist, writes about why they chose Drupal. "

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  1. drupals ok, I prefer mambo by oirtemed · · Score: 0, Troll

    any comments?

  2. and you're wrong too!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just one little problem: Newsweek's "source" was an anonymous phone call from someone alleging to be a government official who paraphrased what they claimed was a report to be issued.

    Wrong. The source was indeed a government official, who was asked in person to verify the story. He did.

    You are wrong on so many levels on this. Shame on you.

    Coverage here:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2005/05/15/AR2005051500605.html

  3. Re:To the naysayers: by superdude72 · · Score: 0, Troll

    They pounced on this "story" (as in a complete fiction) and now 9 people in Afghanistan are dead because the riot that Newsweek helped start got so out of control that the small fledgling Afghani government had to use a lot of force to stop huge crowds of rioting students and other civilians.

    It's not a "complete fiction." It's well documented that prisoners are being abused. They made a factual error with regard to one of the specifics.

    Meanwhile, 1600 US troops and around 100,000 Iraqis are dead because our government lied about WMDs in Iraq and the press ate it up. Why don't you get upset about that instead?