Dan Gillmor is author of We the Media, a book about technology and the development of grassroots journalism.

BBC: NEWS | Technology | The changing mix of money and media

Dan Gillmor has a nice column outlining what Facebook would like to do: become a monopoly or standard utility.

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People such as Doc Searls, Dan Gillmor, J D Lasica and Om Malik, who used to work at Forbes.

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He has been joined by Iranian Hossein Derakhshan who passed information about Mr Motallebi to high profile bloggers in the US such as Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News.

BBC: Bloggers unite to fight

"We're going to be seeing much more of this because things like this are going to be increasingly covered, not just in photos but also on video, " says Dan Gillmor, author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People.

BBC: News Magazine, Washington DC