Get hold of "We the Media"

O'Reilly Media released Dan Gillmor’s book, We The Media yesterday. Gillmor is a renowned author and journalist. The book is available free from the website http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/index.csp. Anyone interested in it can make any derivative works, copy, share, or display it. This has been made possible by a Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share-alike license condition which specifies three important things:
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This is a valuable book for all journalists and writers. Gillmor gives the history of journalism and tells the role that the internet and the World Wide Web plays, especially blogging which is influencing and changing news by letting ordinary people to participate in newsmaking.