Dan Gillmor : On His Own

Dan Gillmor has left the Merc for -- hmmm -- he's not sure yet. Ohmynews.com, the Korean citizen newsblog he's always touting interviewed him and he says:

...there is a room for a business or collective of bloggers who say, "Well, we want to cover the world our way so come to our page where we are all allied together" -- I haven't seen that happen yet, but I don't know why it wouldn't....

Hey Dan, doesn't that sound like what the Wiki people just started and isn't that what Tony Perkins' corporations-suck-up blog AlwaysOn is all about. (Perkins wants now to try to turn the blogsuck into a magazine. Shudder. Isn't that so 1990s?

Here's a simple a objective question on what will happen to Dan in next two years:

A. Will start something that will be so profound that it will make tonnes of money and start a revolution in online publishing and blaze trail for others.
B. Will join Ohmynews.com as consultant and expand their English edition -- into print.
C. Will tout self as author/speaker/consultant and tour world.
D. In midst of mid-life crisis, will eventually get bored of early retirement and return to newspaper as columnist.
E. Will take over tech section in major magazine -- like Forbes or Fortune -- and return to tech takeouts.

Take your pick.