Author Archives: Dan Gillmor

If dead people can vote in Chicago, East St. Louis and Miami, why can’t they express political support for Microsoft? That seems like a reasonable question in wake of Thursday’s Los Angeles Times report that lobbyists had orchestrated a “grass-roots” … Continue reading →

I’ll be traveling most of the weekend. Look for the next update on Monday. Comments

Dave Farber took a picture of me standing in front of the opera house. Concidentally, he and GG are here on vacation. We’re going to have dinner tonight. Dave and I are being interviewed later today by an Australian technology … Continue reading →

Los Angeles Times: Lobbyists Tied to Microsoft Wrote Citizens’ Letters. Letters purportedly written by at least two dead people landed on the desk of Utah Atty. Gen. Mark Shurtleff earlier this year, imploring him to go easy on Microsoft Corp. … Continue reading →

John Balzar (Los Angeles Times): Bill Gates’ Way or No Way. Long ago, the hammer and chisel yielded to charcoal, which led to the quill pen, the pencil, the ballpoint, the typewriter–the purposes of which, to record and share information, … Continue reading →

If I weren’t just a couple of days away from departing on an around-the-world reporting and speaking trip, I’d be in Colorado this week at the Jabbercon conference. It’s where some of the vital infrastructure of tomorrow’s Internet is taking … Continue reading →

Jesse Helms won term after term in the U.S. Senate by resorting to race-baiting advertising and otherwise using race as a wedge. The media coverage of his announced retirement is sickening, because it generally glosses over his ugly record. Comments

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Mercury News: At Home warns it may run out of cash. At Home’s financial problems stem, in part, from the collapse of online advertising, which has battered its online media properties. The company has been trying since April to sell … Continue reading →

Meanwhile, back in the unreal world of Silicon Valley, we learned yesterday that AOL Time Warner was laying off 1,700 people including a batch in a joint venture with Sun Microsystems. Bad news for the folks losing jobs, but the … Continue reading →