Rogers Cadenhead

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Rogers Cadenhead (b. April 13, 1967 in Dallas, Texas) is a computer book author and web publisher who sits on 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.

1 Technical writing
2 Webmaster blogger
3 In the news
4 External links
5 References

[edit] 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[1].

[edit] Webmaster blogger

From 1982 to 1986, Cadenhead operated the Parallax BBS in Dallas, Texas.

He publishes 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, stating that he'd 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 conservative 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 Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales had contravened generally accepted Wikipedia policy by editing his own Wikipedia article back in early 2001 [3]. (Cadenhead also contravened Wikipedia policy by both anonymously creating his own bibliographic Wikipedia article as well as editing it. Ironically, Cadenhead wrote his own entry expecting it to be deleted[4]; instead, it was voted in as a permanent Wikipedia entry. [5])