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Dan Gillmor
Personal blog · dangillmor.compoliticswriting
Dan Gillmor's personal blog at dangillmor.com covers politics and writing. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Why the Indie Web movement is so important”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts about IndieWeb and keeping control of one's own content, such as syndicating personal posts to social networks, plus a post about a return to Hong Kong. All comments cite them without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thanks for stopping by... This is what I consider my "anchor site" on the Web. Think of it as a portal to (almost) everything I'm doing, online and offline. I recently retired from my longtime gig at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication at Arizona State University, where I f
Most-linked posts?
- Why the Indie Web movement is so important2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-04-28
What Hacker News says?
You can use Bridgy to syndicate content to social networks from your personal site: https://indiewebcamp.com/Bridgy Example here: http://dangillmor.com/2014/04/25/indie-web-important/
Comment linking /2014/04/25/indie-web-important/
on “With New Ad Platform, Facebook Opens Gates to Its Vault of User Data”Submitted Is Twitter's suspension of journalist's account a defining moment? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYup. There are so many legacy things in the newspaper business that make running the business so difficult. When the San Jose Mercury News was dying in the Bay Area I emailed back and forth with Dan Gillmor[1] on his take on it. He is very passionate about being able to create new ways to inform and educate the public for the common good. The NY Times has done several pieces on the cost structures that weigh on news…
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on “The Chicago End-Times: The slow humiliation of Chicago’s most vital newspaper”Submitted NY Times amplifies right-wing trolling, omits vital context as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSee also http://dangillmor.com/2014/04/25/indie-web-important/
Comment linking /2014/04/25/indie-web-important/
on “Microblogging – Taking control over your content”Submitted What's Next for Me as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI saw it on Dan Gillmor's site, http://dangillmor.com/2014/09/16/a-return-to-hong-kong/ Related effort for students: http://www.wired.com/2014/09/known/
Comment linking /2014/09/16/a-return-to-hong-kong/
on “Microblogging – Taking control over your content”Submitted Reflections on San Bruno Mountain as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the Indie Web movement is so important as a story · 1 points
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