Dan Gillmor has just posted the first chapter of his new book "Making the News" on his blog site for comment by the Web community. (Dan showed me chapter 3, I think, more than a year ago at the O'Reilly Mac emerging technology conference. Writing a book is a bitch.)

The blogosphere serves as collective editor of our blog postings, so why not of a book as well?

As I discussed with Dan last month, I'll be doing much the same with my upcoming book in the coming days, though I'm still mulling the exact venue(s).

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