Gillmor Gang rebounds

It’s great to see that Steve Gillmor and the gang have returned from hiatus and found a home with Mike Arrington.

The Gillmor Gang sprung out of conversations Steve was having with Jon Udell (now at Microsoft) during our time at InfoWorld. These two would muse, debate, and generally play verbal pong pong for considerable chunks of time. As Steve writes (yes Steve, I am a full 10 days behind on this news), he wanted to share the ideas they discussed with the world at large.

One of many other characters worth pointing out in the fray here is Mike Vizard, former editor in chief at InfoWorld who took a punt and imported yours truly from Australia in 1999, just before the Internet business went pear shaped.

These three guys, perhaps more than any others, shaped my experience in San Francisco from 2000 to 2003 – and I’m still enjoying the fruits of that season. So that’s why I listen to the show. There are breadcrumbs here that I do want to pick up and run with.

For other people, the Gang is arguably what RSS/Web 2.0/attention/social media/social networking was always all about. Shared ideas, and turning the mythical “conversation” into reality – warts and all.

In fact, it was this show that partly inspired me to launch The Scoop podcast. We are no Gang, but to my knowledge we are still the only podcast in Australia that’s based on the concept of a panel-style conversation.

Update: wrap your noggin around this post and comments at TechCrunch. The fun has started.