Another day, another guru
Just four days after Dave Winer's visit, I dragged myself into the office this morning (actually, I ditched church) for a quasi-public forum featuring Dan Gillmor, a well-known tech writer and the author of "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People," whose work informs much of what the News & Record is trying to do with its Public Square project. Dan had asked us to 1) make the event open to the public but 2) keep the group manageably small, so JR invited a number of local bloggers and also threw it open to the entire news staff, a surprisingly large and diverse number of whom came.
It was an excellent discussion, and I think all of us, including Dan, left heartened that the N&R and the larger Greensboro blogging community are on the right track. I'm not sure if anyone was recording it, but if I find that a podcast is available, I'll link to it.
UPDATE: Right at the end of the discussion, Dan mentioned four things that, in combination, could replace "objectivity" as a tenet of journalism. For those who weren't taking notes, they were thoroughness, accuracy, fairness and transparency, and he elaborates on those points here.