{"id":678,"date":"2004-10-24T19:13:13","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T00:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2004-10-24T19:13:13","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T00:13:13","slug":"be-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Be the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read Dan Gillmor&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0596007337\/qid=1098662482\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_csp_1\/002-1757530-8546453?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\">We the Media<\/a> a few weekends ago.   Good coverage of weblogs and the rise of peer media.  If you&#8217;ve been reading Gillmor and watching the evolution of peer media daily, the book won&#8217;t be new. If you&#8217;re interested in the topic, it&#8217;s an excellent introduction.<br \/>\nA few local data points: <a href=\"http:\/\/gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com\/\">Scott Henson&#8217;s<\/a> telling stories about drug war injustice, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mdahmus.thebaba.com\/blog\/\">Mike Dahmus<\/a> covers the commuter rail issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Dan Gillmor&#8217;s We the Media a few weekends ago. Good coverage of weblogs and the rise of peer media. If you&#8217;ve been reading Gillmor and watching the evolution of peer media daily, the book won&#8217;t be new. If you&#8217;re interested in the topic, it&#8217;s an excellent introduction. A few local data points: Scott &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Be the Media&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-aW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}