Scott Rosenberg (born 1959 in
Queens, New York
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, is an American journalist, editor, blogger and non-fiction author. He was a co-founder of Salon Media Group and
Salon.com and a relatively early participant in The
WELL
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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
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calendar application
Chandler (PIM).
His writings at ''
Salon.com'', ''
The San Francisco Examiner'' 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
blog
A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...
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 stated in a blog post: "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
Berkeley, California
Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland, Cali ...
.
[''Dreaming in Code'', Acknowledgements]
Further reading
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References
External links
"About Scott Rosenberg and this blog"at ''Wordyard'' (wordyard.com)
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– published at
Salon.com 1995 to 2006 (archived October 16, 2006)
* , 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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