Dan Gillmor famous quotes

In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.
-- Dan Gillmor

#Creating #Culture #Consuming

We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points. This is not media consolidation in the traditional sense, where a few huge conglomerates used economies of scale to dominate journalism by dominating the local and national agendas. This consolidation, to a very few companies plus increasing government intervention, is even more dangerous — and information providers of all kinds are finally starting to grasp what’s happening.
-- Dan Gillmor

#Moving #Government #Media

If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.
-- Dan Gillmor

#Censorship #Domain #Direct

"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it - and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit.
-- Dan Gillmor

#Teacher #Brother #Attitude

In evaluating potential vendors, accurately estimating total cost of ownership is critical. Yet, this is often an area where companies don't put the right amount of effort. This tool can help those looking at Warehouse Management Systems get their arms around this key issue.
-- Dan Gillmor

#Issues #Keys #Effort

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.

While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck.

Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.

Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.