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Rogers Cadenhead (b. April 13, 1967 in Dallas, Texas) 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.

Technical writing

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.

Webmaster blogger

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."

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.

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.

In December 2005, Cadenhead again achieved significant blog and media coverage by disclosing that Misplaced Pages co-founder Jimmy Wales had contravened generally accepted Misplaced Pages policy by editing his own Misplaced Pages article back in early 2001 . (Cadenhead also contravened Misplaced Pages guidelines by both anonymously creating his own biographical Misplaced Pages article as well as editing it. Ironically, Cadenhead wrote his own entry expecting it to be deleted; instead, it was voted in as a permanent Misplaced Pages entry. )

Legal actions

In March 2006, a dispute between Cadenhead and Dave Winer arising from a verbal agreement degenerated into Cadenhead's publication in his blog of a stiff letter he had received from Winer's attorney regarding "Share Your OPML" . (Cadenhead's account: Winer's account: ) The dispute was resolved with Cadenhead giving up his claim to co-ownership of the website and Winer giving up the claim to the $5,000 he'd paid Cadenhead to work on it. Cadenhead also agreed to destroy all the code he had been furnished or had developed for Share Your OPML.

In October 2006, Cadenhead was threatened with a lawsuit from radio talk show host Art Bell, claiming that various comments on his blog were libelous. Cadenhead offered to remove the offending posts but Bell insisted that the entire stories be removed. Cadenhead will use Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as his defense, stating that there was no requirement for him to censor or moderate comments. No formal lawsuit has yet been filed.

External links

• Cadenhead's weblog
• SportsFilter
• Drudge Retort
• Rotten Tomatoes - Film reviews by Cadenhead

References

• Rogers Cadenhead is my hero Andrew Grumet, July 1, 2003
• Florida Man Registers BenedictXVI.com Name washingtonpost.com, April 20, 2005
• Books by Rogers Cadenhead

• 1967 births
• Living people
• American technology writers
• American bloggers