Rogers Cadenhead

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Rogers Cadenhead (b. April 13, 1967 in Dallas, Texas, USA) is a computer book author and web publisher who is currently chairman of the RSS Advisory Board, a group that assists developers in using the RSS 2.0 specification. He graduated from the University of North Texas in 1991 and Lloyd V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas in 1985.

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[edit] Background

He is the author of several editions of the Java in 21 Days and Java in 24 Hours series from SAMS Publishing and has written other books on Radio UserLand, Microsoft FrontPage and the Internet.[1] From 1982 to 1986, Cadenhead operated the Parallax BBS in Dallas, Texas.

He published the Internet humor site Cruel.com and is the copublisher of the community weblog SportsFilter and the Drudge Retort, a liberal alternative to the Drudge Report that he edits with television writer Jonathan Bourne. He has also been a contributor to Suck.com and previously authored a syndicated question-and-answer column called "Ask Ed Brice."

[edit] In the news

In 2005, Cadenhead achieved brief notoriety for registering the domain name benedictxvi.com several weeks before the name was chosen by Pope Benedict XVI, joking that he would give it to the Vatican in exchange for a mitre and "complete absolution, no questions asked, for the third week of March 1987." Those demands not being met, he donated the domain to the Internet charity Modest Needs.[2]

When Matt Drudge failed to register drudge.com for his now 10 year old news and gossip website drudgereport.com, Cadenhead registered drudge.com and started the Drudge Retort as a liberal alternative to the Drudge Report. Both conservative and liberal bloggers utilize the open forum format encouraged by Cadenhead on the Drudge Retort.[citation needed]

In December 2005, Cadenhead again achieved significant blog and media coverage by highlighting that Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales had edited his own Wikipedia article repeatedly, which Wales admitted was "in poor taste."[1][2][3][4]

In June 2008, the Associated Press filed seven DMCA takedown requests against Cadenhead for stories published by users on the Drudge Retort reproducing from 39 to 79 words of AP articles. The action sparked a backlash among bloggers towards the news organization and a debate about what constitutes fair use when bloggers link and excerpt articles. "If The A.P. has concerns that go all the way down to one or two sentences of quoting, they need to tell people what they think is legal and where the boundaries are," Cadenhead told the New York Times.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Workbench". Retrieved on 2008-02-20.
  2. ^ "Florida Man Registers BenedictXVI.com Name (washingtonpost.com)". Retrieved on 2008-02-20.
  3. ^ Hansen, Evan (December 19, 2005). "Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio", Wired, Wired News. Retrieved on 20 February 2008. 
  4. ^ Mitchell, Dan (December 24, 2005). "Insider Editing at Wikipedia", The New York Times. Retrieved on 20 February 2008. 
  5. ^ Hansell, Saul (June 16, 2008). "The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs", New York Times. Retrieved on 17 June 2008. 

[edit] External links

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