Eric S. Raymond
Summary
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is a computer programmer, author and open source software advocate. His name became known within the hacker culture when he picked up maintenance of the "Jargon File" in 1990. After the 1997 publication of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", Raymond became, for a number of years, an unofficial spokesman of the open source movement.Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1957, Raymond lived in Venezuela before settling in Pennsylvania in 1971. Raymond says his congenital cerebral palsy motivated him to chase a future in computing; his involvement with hacker culture began in 1976, and he contributed to his first free and open source software project in the late 1980s.
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2 guest posts: 2012 predictions and “Social media and the evolution of the fourth estate”
I’ve written a couple of guest posts for Nieman Journalism Lab and the tech news site Memeburn. The Nieman post is part of a series looking forward to 2012. I’m never a fan of futurology so I’ve cheated a little and talked about developments already in progress: new interface conventions in news websites; the rise of collaboration; and the skilling up of journalists in data.
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New version of The Snowman to be screened on Channel 4 next year
New 'fresh, not identical' version of Christmas TV fixture to use traditional techniques, original production team – and new song.
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What are the characteristics of a crowdsourced investigation? A case study in crowdsourcing investigative journalism part 5
Continuing the serialisation of the research underpinning a new Help Me Investigate project, in this fifth part I explore the characteristics of crowdsourcing outlined in the literature. Previous parts are linked below:.
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Nokia closes Symbian to the world: can MeeGo make up the gap?
The formerly open source phone operating system is going behind the gates. But there's still no sign of MeeGo: will it run a Nokia smartphone before June 2011?.
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Open: The Ultimate Buzzword
Yesterday morning, while exercising, I found myself thinking that I wanted to write a blog post about "open vs. closed" and how the whole argument (open source, openstack, open business models) had gotten so confused that the word "open" meant NOTHING anymore. And then Apple released it's earnings. Apparently, I've got some sort of secret mind-meld happening with Steve Jobs that even I wasn't aware of.
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Given enough eyeballs, all typos are shallow
One of the common patterns in Here Comes Everybody is lightweight collaboration, not "Let's lock ourselves in a room for 5 days to work together" but "Let's make it easy for an individual to make a meaningful contribution with little effort. " This patterns shows up in Linux and Wikipedia, where most of the contributors have made only one addition or emendation.
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