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Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard

Personal blog from Salon cofounder and author of "Dreaming in Code," maintained since 2002, offering commentary on journalism, politics and technology.
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Levy: "Say Everything" 2009's "best technology-related business book"

Nov 24, 2009
Forgive this author a moment of own-horn-tooting. It was always flattering and humbling to me to hear Dreaming in Code spoken of in the same breath as The Soul of a New Machine. With Say Everything I also had a model in mind: Hackers, Steven Levy’s...

A geeky problem with Mac scripting

Nov 22, 2009
Here’s what turns out to be the most intractable problem I’ve encountered in my move to OSX as my primary work platform: For years I used a programmers’ text editor tool in Windows called Ultraedit. It worked great and allowed me to record macros. The...

Miscellany of the moment

Nov 13, 2009
Over at MediaShift’s Idea Lab blog, where as a Knight News Challenge grantee I’m posting occasionally, I’ve published a discussion of an interesting problem we’re grappling with at MediaBugs: How do you organize a set of categories for all the...

The "millions of results are useless" myth

Nov 11, 2009
While we’re on the subject of the value of search… Ken Auletta is on KQED Forum right now, talking about his new Google book, and I just heard him comment on Google’s vulnerability to new competitors by hauling out the old complaint that Google’s...

Why "junk traffic" isn't so junky

Nov 11, 2009
I’ve been reading Ryan Chittum’s recent posts at Columbia Journalism Review about the whole Murdoch/WSJ “We’re seceding from Google” flap. Chittum applauds what he sees as a new appreciation in media circles for the “loyal readership” metric as ...


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