IP: Power of Everyone...

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Gillmor, Dan" <DGillmor () sjmercury com>
> To: "'dave () farber net'" <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Power of Everyone...
> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 16:02:31 -0700
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>
> Dave, FYI:
>
> http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/dgillmor/dg062401.htm
>
> ``Kaycee Nicole'' was dying. Thousands of people visited her Web site,
> comforting her -- and each other -- with messages of support. Then, sadly,
> she succumbed to her leukemia.
>
> But questions had arisen, and now grew louder. Did Kaycee even exist? No,
> concluded a relatively small but relentless group of Net denizens who
> unraveled the tale of anguish and discovered a hoax.
>
> What the Kaycee crowd accomplished was, in a sense, investigative reporting.
> But with few exceptions, the members of this team had never met each other.
> Most never will meet. Using the power of the Internet, they'd come together
> -- first in sorrow, then in dismay that morphed toward anger -- to
> scrutinize a situation and, ultimately, solve a problem.
>
> They were part of a phenomenon that puts them in the vanguard of tomorrow's
> communications. Call it the power of everyone.



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