Gillmor Gang Newsletter — Revue #6 By Steve Gillmor • Issue #6 • View online FreeCoin The current rave about newsletters and so-called or social audio is just the latest version of the story of podcasting. Take the idea that podcasting is experiencing a new wave of popularity and scaffolding…

Gillmor Gang Newsletter — Revue #5 By Steve Gillmor • Issue #5 • View online Days Go By You may ask yourself, say the Talking Heads. What is this thing working from anywhere? Or as Google says, work from right here in the office. As the vaccines roll on out…

Gillmor Gang Newsletter — Revue #5 By Steve Gillmor • Issue #5 • View online Days Go By You may ask yourself, say the Talking Heads. What is this thing working from anywhere? Or as Google says, work from right here in the office. As the vaccines roll on out…

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Living in the various shades of isolation and digital transformation is a full-time emotional game of dodgeball. Sometimes I just feel like standing there and absorbing the full force of the ball. Dodging from home. Or not. Newsletters are supposed to be in a regular frequency: monthly, weekly, or perhaps…

I’ve been tinkering with this newsletter, brainstorming with Keith Teare and our producer/director Tina Chase Gillmor, for some time now. It’s based somewhat on an IOS app we’ve developed that uses notifications to archive and distribute stories and commentary through a hybrid public/private back channel. …

Three basic themes fill up our minutes: tv, tech, and Trump. Flying back from the East Coast to California, I discover a new format when my iPad flips out and posts the first sentence here. It’s not what I wanted to do, but presents an interesting hybrid, a kind of…

The news that Spotify acquired a couple of podcasting companies certainly resonated for those of us who were around in the early days of RSS, the attachment extension, and the birth of podcasting. For those of you who wonder what the “pod” part refers to, it’s become the iPhone and…

Five days to go to the first contested election since Trump descended to the presidency. Whether 2016 was a surprise, the midterms will be anything but. In fact, that to me is the good news: either Trump will be successful at getting Republicans and enough…