Scott Rosenberg (born 1959 in

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is an American journalist, editor, blogger and non-fiction author. He was a co-founder of Salon Media Group and

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and a relatively early participant in The

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. Rosenberg's first book, '' Dreaming in Code'' appeared in 2007. It offers a detailed perspective on collaboration and massive software endeavors, particularly the

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

calendar application Chandler (PIM). His writings at ''

'', ''

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'' and elsewhere have ranged from theatre and film criticism to technology reporting and political commentary. In 2009, he published a book on the history of

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ging, ''Say Everything''. In 2010 Rosenberg founde
MediaBugs.org
a "service for reporting specific, correctable errors and problems in media coverage." In an interview, he explains, "We'll try to alert the journalists or news organization involved about your report and bring them into a conversation," which may get the error corrected. It is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of thei
News Challenge
In September 2012, at the end of the funding period, he explained in a blog post that 'Much of the public sees media-outlet accuracy failures as "not our problem." The journalists are messing up, they believe, and it's the journalists' job to fix things.'

Personal life

Rosenberg is the son of Jeanne and Coleman Rosenberg. He is married to Dayna Macy and has two sons, Matthew and Jack. They live in

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.''Dreaming in Code'', Acknowledgements

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"About Scott Rosenberg and this blog"
at ''Wordyard'' (wordyard.com) *

– published at

1995 to 2006 (archived 2006-10-16) * , with catalog records WARNING: As of June 2022, LC credits this Scott Rosenberg ("Browse ... LC Catalog") with some works by the screenwriter born 1963. The same is tru
at WorldCat
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