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WE'VE NEVER HAD OUR OWN CARSON, LETTERMAN, OR LENO. BUT NOW MIKE BULLARD IS DETERMINED TO YAK HIS WAY INTO OUR BEDROOMS In the comically small green room of Yuk […]

This article is adapted, in part, from an essay Gillmor wrote in 2008 as part of the Media Republic project (www.mediarepublic.org) at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at [...]

On September 22nd, Dan Gillmor, the founder of Grassroots Media Inc., a project aimed at bringing more voices into journalism, delivered the 2005 Graham Hovey Lecture at the University of [...]

The first of the stock-options trials is over, and Gregory Reyes, former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, has been convicted of securities fraud in federal court. I'm sorry for his [...]

What makes for good journalism? It's not so much a set of specific techniques or practices. It's all about principles. Journalism is increasingly coming not just from traditional media companies. [...]

It's looking more and more likely that we've been in a real-estate bubble - and that things are going to get mighty ugly as it deflates. If the situation, already [...]

As a frequent traveler, I've come to appreciate something that United Airlines, alone in the airline industry, offers its passengers. It is a small, but valuable bit of transparency. I'm [...]

Did free speech dodge a bullet in January? Yes, according to a coalition of groups from left to right, who helped kill a section of federal lobbying-disclosure legislation that opponents [...]

Last week, if you ran a Web search on Warren Kremer Paino, an advertising agency, you'd find among the top results a page entitled, 'Warren Kremer Paino Withdraws Lawsuit.' You [...]

When we walk the proverbial mile in someone else's shoes, empathy grows. From my own experiences over the years, I'd strongly suggest that journalists would be well served if more [...]

One of the more pernicious bits of propaganda to emerge in post-Sept. 11 America is the notion that security must trump lib- erty. The nation's founders are surely spinning in […]

Unix rising? Maybe, but the story isn't just Linux, and maybe it isn't just on the server. Like many people, I was in- trigued, if puzzled, this month when Sun […]

Remember the guy in that meeting last week who seemed to be paying close attention to everything but kept glancing into his lap? He was probably doing e-mail on a […]

On a recent trip to China, I noticed that many of the Intel-compatible PCs for sale in several major department stores had a slightly different appearance than usual, apart from […]

No one with a conscience wants to profit from terrorism. But new developments in the technology market will be at the core of our response for years to come. Some […]

The people in the trenches have been the heroes since the Sept. 11 atrocities - firefighters, police, construction workers. In a less visible way, so have the people who've restored […]

It's beginning to dawn on folks in Silicon Valley that the speculative boom of the late 1990s is really over. Hardly a day goes by without another spate of bad […]

Microsoft is running out of judges it can irritate. That's the good news. The bad news is that it's still difficult to see what the courts can do, short of […]

By July 1, you and your family had probably received a slew of so-called privacy notices in your snail-mail boxes. Financial institutions of all kinds told you how much they […]

Once in a while, the good guys can win, or at least keep the bad guys at bay. That seems to be happening with UCITA, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions […]

Look who's raising prices! Microsoft is making its biggest customers an offer they can't refuse. It's entirely benign, if you believe the spin from a software company that has been […]

The good news is that security is finally reaching critical mass in the minds of the corporate executives who authorize IT budgets. Companies may be cutting back everywhere else, but […]

Practically everyone agrees that data privacy legislation will come out of Congress this year. That's the good news. The bad news, of course, is that the legislation is likely to […]

Dear IT Folks: You're a conservative crowd, frequently for excellent reasons. New technologies tend to be buggy and difficult. They can foul up your carefully planned systems. They raise security […]

William Hewlett's death this month marked the end of more than one era in Silicon Valley. If we're all lucky, his passing will remind today's technology leaders of what we've […]

When George W. Bush takes the oath as the nation's 43rd president on Jan. 20, he'll bathe in applause from some of the technology industry's top bosses. But as he […]

The 800-pound gorilla's image-making machinery is legendary. The good, the bad and the future. It's one of the globe's greatest and most-admired enterprises, it's also a ruthless, world-class monopolist. The […]

This year's presidential vote is an utter mess that demonstrates, once again, the need for everyone - governments and companies - to consult users before coming up with products or […]

Something important is happening inside the most important Internet organization you've probably never heard of. A measure of reform may be in the wings at the Internet Corporation for Assigned […]

Peer-to-peer computing, which is all the rage lately among some IT cognoscenti and much of the media, is being compared to the ill-fated 'push' craze a few years ago. Don't […]

If you haven't been paying attention to ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, this isn't a bad time to start. The little-known but enormously influential organization is […]

The recent 'Love Bug' virus/worm and its progeny have spawned the usual amount of publicity, accusations and suggestions. IT folks have been hearing all of them, but let me add […]

Covering politics prepared me for tech. Both arenas are filled with casual deception. The media take it for granted that we're not just being spun; we're being hookwinked. It was […]

The only people who deny the Microsoft monopoly are company executives and lawyers If there are no more delays, Microsoft will face a federal court Thursday in the most important […]

--Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor), who teaches digital media literacy at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, on T-Mobile's announcement of Binge [...]