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Mad Penguin: Open Source is Disrupting the Fourth Estate

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 20, 2005

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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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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