Laura Knoy Interviews Bloggers Dave Winer and Dan Gillmor

Laura Knoy, on her New Hampshire Public Radio show The Exchange, inviewed bloggers Dave Winer and Dan Gillmor a couple of days ago. They talk about what blogging is and isn't, and it's place in relation to the main stream media. Well worth a listen [click here].

Laura Knoy's intro:

Unheard of just a few years ago, these web journals set up by anyone with a story to tell…or an axe to grind….have brought down major media and picked on politicians, but now find the spotlight’s glare turned back on them. We're looking at the growing influence of the blogosphere and whether blogs are being used for democracy or demagoguery. Laura's guests are Dan Gillmor, Author of “We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People” and founder of Grassroots Media, a project to encourage and enable more citizen-based media. Gillmor is a former columnist for several newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News and Detroit Free Press and ran a weblog for SiliconValley.com. Laura is also joined by Dave Winer, Editor of The Scripting News Weblog, one of the earliest blogs on the internet and currently the longest running.

posted March 3, 2005