Salon co-founder Scott Rosenberg is the author of "Dreaming in Code" and blogs at Wordyard. He is working on a new book about the story of blogging.

Scott Rosenberg's Salon stories

Monday, Jul 6, 2009 03:20 PDT

How blogs changed everything

As old media struggles for relevance, the once-maligned blogosphere proves it's as transformative as the telephone
Thursday, Oct 9, 2008 03:30 PDT

Google's Vulcan death grip

Is Google the Mr. Spock of the Internet -- all head, no heart? A new book wonders if the very things that made the company great will bring it down.
Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 04:00 PST

Trapped in the grid

Like electricity, the Web is everywhere and changes everything, says Nicholas Carr. But the one thing it can't deliver is freedom.
Friday, Jul 13, 2007 04:17 PDT

Empty thine in-box

A spate of e-mail etiquette guides and productivity manuals commands us to clear out our e-mail. Don't we all have better things to do?
Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:00 PDT

Apple hearts Microsoft

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates take the stage at a tech conference and come off more like old pals than business rivals.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 04:57 PDT

Delight in disorder

Now that the Web has made everything miscellaneous, as David Weinberger argues in his new book, we're free to remix the world.
Monday, Mar 12, 2007 06:00 PDT

Are we playing dice with the biosphere?

Veteran tech writer Denise Caruso warns us how little we really know about genetic engineering -- and says there's a smarter way to place bets on new technology.
Friday, Feb 9, 2007 10:15 PST

Transparency and the Edwards campaign

Will the professionalization of bloggers destroy the openness and directness that have made blogs so popular?
Saturday, Feb 3, 2007 05:30 PST

Words fail us

Programmers talk to computers using precise instructions -- but when they communicate with people, human language betrays them. An excerpt from "Dreaming in Code."
Friday, Dec 8, 2006 10:13 PST

Burying the Kirkpatrick doctrine

Former U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick died today -- but her big idea was discredited long ago.
Friday, Nov 3, 2006 11:39 PST

Conservatives: Who cares if we teach terrorists how to build nukes?

A U.S. document dump online was supposed to help prove Saddam had WMD. Instead, it published bomb-making details to the world.
Monday, Oct 30, 2006 03:36 PST

History as written by a "SimCity" freak

Gifted amateurs defeated London's cholera epidemic in the 1850s, says culture/tech visionary Steven Johnson, and today a similar bottom-up approach to knowledge can improve neighborhoods, reform cities, even thwart terror.
Monday, Jul 31, 2006 12:45 PDT

Lawbreakers, paradigm shifters, opportunity scoffers and letter writers

Today's must-reads from TPMMuckraker, William Gibson and more.
Monday, Jul 31, 2006 10:37 PDT

Bush: We have to destroy Lebanon in order to save it

Plus: What the Israel/Hezbollah war has to do with 9/11.
Monday, Jul 31, 2006 10:08 PDT

Senate has writers' block on Iraq intel report

The report on prewar intelligence just can't seem to make it out of committee.
Monday, Jul 31, 2006 09:05 PDT

Fathoming the unfathomable: Bush's non-response to Lebanon

Trying to figure out what the administration could be thinking -- four possibilities.
Monday, Jul 31, 2006 07:37 PDT

Lieberman agonistes: Is it 1968 all over again?

Pundits try to link the Lamont campaign to the conflicts that divided Democrats four decades ago.
Monday, Apr 3, 2006 22:22 PDT

Tom DeLay has left the building

His lawyer says his decision to quit the House and not seek reelection has nothing to do with any criminal investigations. Right.
Wednesday, Mar 29, 2006 03:58 PST

War of the blogs

New books by Instapundit and Kos present dueling visions of the future -- as libertarian paradise or populist battleground.
Thursday, Feb 2, 2006 03:30 PST

Salon gets (more) interactive

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Monday, Jan 30, 2006 03:19 PST

Letters to the Editor update

New features on the way -- and why we ask you to sign your name.
Thursday, Dec 9, 2004 12:30 PST

The Shlemiel way of software

Author Joel Spolsky talks about what Microsoft has in common with his grandparents and what Isaac Bashevis Singer has to do with code-generating schemes.
Tuesday, May 11, 2004 12:30 PDT

Code that kills, for real

Future military combat systems will require ever more complicated code, but writing software that is bug free and ready for a firefight is a challenge that gets tougher every day.
Friday, Mar 19, 2004 12:30 PST

Why software still stinks

Programming must change -- but how? At a reunion of coding pioneers, answers abound.
Wednesday, Mar 3, 2004 06:54 PST

Don't worry, be sexy

The government tells the Supreme Court that Web publishers should relax -- a Web censorship law only applies to the "worst" porn peddlers. But why should we trust it?
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