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Dan Gillmor is an American technology writer and columnist. He is director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Gillmor is also the author of a popular weblog covering technology news and the Northern California technology business sector, criticizing rigid enforcement of copyrights, and commenting on politics from a liberal perspective. ==Career== Before becoming a journalist, Gillmor worked as a musician for seven years. During the 1986–87 academic year he was a Michigan Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied history, political theory and economics. Gillmor worked at the ''Kansas City Times'' and several newspapers in Vermont, followed by six years at the ''Detroit Free Press''. From 1994 to 2005, Gillmor was a columnist at the ''San Jose Mercury News'', Silicon Valley’s daily newspaper, during which time he became a leading chronicler of the dot-com boom and its subsequent bust. Starting in October 1999, he wrote a weblog for the ''Mercury News'', which is believed to have been the first by a journalist for a traditional media company. Gillmor's ''eJournal'' archives were believed to be lost but have been found in the Internet Archive and are now restored at Bayosphere.com. Gillmor left the ''Mercury News'' in January 2005 to work on a start-up venture in citizen journalism called ''Bayosphere'', which aimed to "make it easier for the public to report and publish on the Internet." Launched in May 2005, ''Bayosphere'' closed in January 2006. After closing ''Bayosphere'', Gillmor moved on to a new project, the Center for Citizen Media, a non-profit organization affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Law School.〔 In 2007, Gillmor co-founded Dopplr, an online travel application project.〔 In November 2007, Gillmor was named founding director of Arizona State University's new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.〔 Dan Gilmor is a board member of the Global Editors Network since its creation in April 2011. ;Awards and honors Gillmor won the EFF Pioneer Award in 2002 and the World Technology Award for Media & Journalism in 2004. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dan Gillmor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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