Journalistic Pivot Points
Dan Gillmor,
SiliconValley.Com,
Apr 09, 2002
From the "where I intend to go with OLDaily" department: all I need to do to make this work is get my wireless connection at the conference. Then I can recreate this experience: "I was blogging a session on wireless technology, and wrote something about SkyPilot, one of the presenting companies. Duncan Davidson, SkyPilot's CEO, finished his presentation and sat on the podium, reading on his laptop, while other people talked. Then, in the Q&A, he corrected something I'd written in the blog. In other words, he'd caught this in near-real time and had better information (he should). I immediately posted another paragraph, which began, 'I've been corrected....' Whoa. I'm still not entirely sure what happened. But I do know this. My journey in journalism hit a pivot in that moment. Maybe journalism itself hit a pivot point, as pretentious as that sounds."
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