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Technology, politics, culture
About Scott Rosenberg
I'm a writer, editor and website builder. These days I'm working on MediaBugs.org. I wrote Say Everything and Dreaming in Code. I was co-founder and managing editor of Salon. I maintain a mirror version of this blog at Open Salon.
My Books
Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
"The best technology-related business book of the year."
— Steven Levy
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
"The first true successor to Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine"
— James Fallows
Thank you for posting this! Hurrah for the New York Post for using plain english.