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February
2005
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15:18 PM
America/Los_Angeles

Introducing a new watcher! Richard Koman…

by Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcher.com


I met Richard last week at the excellent New Communications Forum in Napa (European conference coming...!)and begged him to join our raggle-taggle team of excellence. It was clear we shared the same excitement about developments in the blogging process/technologies world and, surprisingly, we each have a child in the same fifth grade classroom(!)


Richard has an incredible lineage…(going all the way back to when O’Reilly, the Sebastopol-based tech book publisher, could have become the Yahoo/Google of its time—a story that should be told again) … and a heck of a lot of other stuff too, take a look at this bio:


Richard Koman has covered technology since 1987. He first encountered
the Internet in 1992, when he helped to launch WAIS Inc., a precursor
to the Web. He was a pioneer in Web publishing at O'Reilly &
Associates as an editor for their Global Network Navigator site and as
managing editor of Songline Studios' Web Review, one of the first
sites doing online journalism. As a book editor for O'Reilly, he
conceived such best-selling core books as "Web Design in a Nutshell,"
"Designing with JavaScript," and "Cascading Style Sheets: The
Definitive Guide."


In 2002, he joined the Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle on a
cross-country trip in the Internet Bookmobile, writing about his
experiences on Salon.com and the O'Reilly Network. That experience led
him to form, with Brad deGraf, a nonprofit called Anywhere Books. As
Anywhere Books' project manager, he traveled to Africa and Macedonia
to set up, install and train local staff on the mobile print-on-demand
system.

His work has appeared in Salon, Communication Arts, Web Review,

O'Reilly Network, Web Architect, Internet World, Online Design,

Publishing Weekly, and Print & Graphics.




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