About Scott Rosenberg and this blog
I’m a writer, editor and Web site builder. These days I’m working as the executive editor of Grist, a non-profit green news site that tries to keep a sense of humor and hope as it chronicles the state of the environment with an eye to younger readers. Here’s my blog over at Grist.
Before that I founded MediaBugs.org, a project funded by the Knight News Challenge that built a “bug-tracker for news” — a service people can use to report errors in news coverage in their communities and try to get them corrected.
I co-founded Salon back in 1995. I served as its first technology editor and all-around Web geek for years, then became managing editor just in time for the dot-com bubble to first over-inflate and then collapse.
In 2003 I began working on a book about software development and its discontents. I took a leave from Salon in 2005 to write it. It’s titled Dreaming in Code and was published by Crown in January, 2007. The full web site for the book is at dreamingincode.com.
When I returned to Salon after my book leave, I worked on developing and prototyping the project now known as Open Salon — an open blogging community for Salon readers.
I left Salon in July 2007 to begin work on another book that would tell the story of blogging. Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters” came out in June 2009.
Before this blog was here at Wordyard it lived as part of the Salon Blogs program, a partnership between Salon.com and Userland Software that I ran for Salon. I began blogging in July 2002. Before that most of my writing online was at Salon; there’s a full directory listing of my pieces here.
I started making Web pages in November 1994 as an editor of the short-lived San Francisco Free Press — an early experiment in Web publishing by the striking Newspaper Guild workers in San Francisco. In early 1995 I posted a prototype of a solo Web magazine called Kludge. I quickly discovered that being a one-person publishing operation was more than I could handle at that point in my, and the Web’s, career, given that I still held down a full-time job at the SF Examiner. As the year progressed I began working with David Talbot and the team he was then pulling together to start Salon. I left the Examiner that fall and helped Salon plan and post its first issue in November 1995.
I continued to maintain my own Web site, first at www.dmz.com and later here at Wordyard. Here’s the old Wordyard home page that was supplanted by this blog. Here’s the old dmz.com home page that preceded it, with some older links to my writing, many of which have yet to rot.
You can send me email using the form below. I read them all! Or just email me directly, at “scottr” at the domain of this blog (wordyard.com).
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