Rogers Cadenhead (born April 13, 1967) is a computer book author and web publisher who served from 2006 to 2008 as chairman of the
RSS Advisory Board, a group that publishes the
RSS
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2.0 specification. He graduated from
Lloyd V. Berkner High School
Lloyd V. Berkner High School is a high school in Richardson, in the U.S. state of Texas, with a 2008 enrollment of 2,755 and a student/teacher ratio of 16.7. It is one of four high schools in the Richardson Independent School District.
History ...
in
Richardson, Texas in 1985 and the
University of North Texas in 1991.
Background
Cadenhead is the author of several editions of the ''Java in 21 Days'' and ''Java in 24 Hours'' series from
SAMS Publishing and has written other books on
Radio UserLand,
Microsoft FrontPage and the Internet.
From 1982 to 1986, Cadenhead operated the Parallax BBS in
Dallas, Texas, which was possibly the first BBS to offer
BBS door games.
He published the Internet humor site Cruel.com and is the copublisher of the community weblog SportsFilter. He has also been a contributor to
Suck.com
Suck.com was an online magazine, one of the earliest ad-supported content sites on the Internet. It featured daily editorial content on a great variety of topics, including politics and pop-culture. Launched in 1995 and geared towards a Generatio ...
and previously authored a syndicated question-and-answer column for the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram called "Ask Ed Brice."
Drudge Retort
When news aggregator
Matt Drudge failed to register drudge.com for his news website
Drudge Report, Cadenhead registered drudge.com in 1998 and started the Drudge Retort as a liberal alternative to what he perceived to be the right-leaning Drudge Report, and as "a send-up of Mr. Drudge's breathless style".
Cadenhead edits the site with television writer Jonathan Bourne. Both conservative and liberal bloggers utilize the open forum format, encouraged by Cadenhead. The headline selections for discussion are the liberal alternative to the ''Drudge Report''.
Some readers may be confused between the two websites because the typography and page layouts are almost identical, and this is no coincidence since the site was deliberately designed to be like Drudge's website, using "the same style of type, the same rows of links to other journalists and columnists, the same screaming, sensational headlines trumpeting world exclusives".
[
] Cadenhead uses a yellow background, which implies that Drudge is a
yellow journalist.
Even
Matt Drudge visits the Drudge Retort, saying "I go there when I can't get into my own Web site because mine's so popular" in a 1999 interview with the ''New York Times''.
In the news
In 2005, Cadenhead achieved brief notoriety for registering the domain name benedictxvi.com several weeks before the name was chosen by
Pope Benedict XVI, joking that he would give it to the
Vatican in exchange for a
mitre and "complete
absolution, no questions asked, for the third week of March 1987." Those demands not being met, he donated the domain to the Internet charity
Modest Needs.
In December 2005, Cadenhead again achieved blog and media coverage by highlighting that
Wikipedia co-founder
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known on Wikipedia by the pseudonym Jimbo, is an American-British Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedi ...
had edited his own Wikipedia article repeatedly, which Wales admitted was "in poor taste."
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]
In June 2008, the
Associated Press filed seven
DMCA takedown requests against Cadenhead for stories published by users on the ''Drudge Retort'' reproducing from 39 to 79 words of AP articles. The action sparked a backlash among bloggers towards the news organization and a debate about what constitutes
fair use when bloggers link and excerpt articles. "If The A.P. has concerns that go all the way down to one or two sentences of quoting, they need to tell people what they think is legal and where the boundaries are," Cadenhead told the ''
New York Times''. The affair led AP to change its policy and install new technologies to protect its work.
Bibliography
*''Beginner's Guide to
Minecraft Mods Programming, Second Edition'' (QUE, 2016)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours, Seventh Edition'' (Sams Publishing, 2014)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days, Sixth Edition'' (Sams Publishing, 2012)
*''Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours'' (with Jesse Liberty) (Sams Publishing, 2011)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours, Sixth Edition'' (Sams Publishing, 2009)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours, Fifth Edition'' (Sams Publishing, 2009)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java 6 in 21 Days'' (Sams Publishing, 2007) (with
Laura Lemay
Laura Lemay (born August 1, 1967) is an American author of technical books, most notably starting the SAMS Publishing "Teach Yourself" series.
Biography
Lemay works as a freelance technical writer. Beginning in the 1990s, she authored a series o ...
)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Programming with Java in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition'' (Sams Publishing, 2004)
*''Movable Type 3 Bible Desktop Edition'' (Wiley Publishing, 2004)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days, Fourth Edition'' (with Laura Lemay) (Sams Publishing, 2004)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft FrontPage 2003 in 24 Hours'' (Sams Publishing, 2003)
*''Radio Userland Kick Start'' (Sams Publishing, 2003)
*''How to Use the Internet, Eighth Edition'' (Que Publishing, 2002)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days, Professional Reference Edition, Third Edition'' (with Laura Lemay) (Sams Publishing, 2002)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 24 Hours, Third Edition'' (Sams Publishing, 2002)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days, Third Edition'' (with Laura Lemay) (Sams Publishing, 2002)
*''How to Use the Internet, 2002 Edition'' (Que Publishing, 2001)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days, Professional Reference Edition, Second Edition'' (with Laura Lemay) (Sams Publishing, 2001)
*''How to Use the Internet, Fifth Edition'' (Que Publishing, 2000)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 24 Hours, Second Edition'' (Sams Publishing, 2000)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days, Second Edition'' (with Laura Lemay) (Sams Publishing, 2000)
*''How to Use the Internet, 2001 Edition'' (Que Publishing, 1999)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft FrontPage 2000 in 24 Hours'' (Sams Publishing, 1999)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days Professional Reference Edition'' (with Laura Lemay) (Sams Publishing, 1999)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 24 Hours'' (Sams Publishing, 1999)
*''Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days'' (with Laura Lemay) (Sams Publishing, 1999)
*''Sams Teach Yourself to Create Web Pages in 24 Hours'' (Sams Publishing, 1998)
*''Teach Yourself Java 1.1 Programming in 24 Hours'' (Sams Publishing, 1997)
*''Teach Yourself to Create a Home Page in 24 Hours'' (Sams Publishing, 1997)
*''Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Activex and Vbscript'' (with Neil Lomax) (Sams Publishing, 1996)
*''Teach Yourself SunSoft Java Workshop in 21 Days'' (with Laura Lemay and Charles Perkins) (Sams Publishing, 1996)
References
External links
* Cadenhead'
weblogSportsFilterDrudge RetortRotten Tomatoes- Film reviews by Cadenhead
Andrew Grumet, July 1, 2003
washingtonpost.com, April 20, 2005
Cadenhead Website: Books by Rogers Cadenhead
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1967 births
Living people
American technology writers
American bloggers
People from Dallas
21st-century American non-fiction writers