Mad Penguin: Open Source is Disrupting the Fourth Estate

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"Remember that famous scene from the movie, The Graduate, where a suit pulls Dustin Hoffman's character aside and tells him that the new word for business is 'plastics?' Now, plastics is over. The new word is 'distributed.'

"One example is 'distributed journalism,' and it has the potential to diversify the voices of the media, where the current dearth of diversity is a problem. Dan Gillmor, a established journalist who had a cushy, high-profile job at the widely-read San Jose Mercury News, has recently quit his job and staked his career on his 'grassroots journalism' blog..."

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