Dan Gillmor chats

Technology journalist and author of We the Media, Dan Gillmor, popped in to Guardian Unlimited today after giving a talk at yesterday's UK Association of Online Publishers conference.

I'm a big fan of his work so I was delighted to grab a half-hour chat with him: we talked about the US election, the wonder of wikis and what teenagers are using blogs for. Below are some audio highlights from what he had to say.

First, we talked about how close the US election could be:

'I fear there could be five Floridas this year' (2min 28s)

Then we went onto how big media are coping the new media revolution:

'If journalists are good at anything its fractionalising time and doing things in a rapid order' (6min 18s)

Then Dan talked about wikis and their huge potential ...

'Wikipedia is, I think, one of the great social experiments of our time' (1min 42s)

... and about how young people are using blogs to communicate with one another:

'LiveJournal is an incredible well of talk, by mostly teenagers who really have a lot to say to each other and a small small amount to say to anyone else' (1min 30s)

If you're a blogger or journalist and you haven't read Dan's book yet, then do: it highlights the challenges facing journalists in a media world that has become "an infinitely complex conversation".

Dan also took part in an online chat at Guardian Unlimited back in August, which is here.