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	IT Conversations: John Markoff (Part 1 of 2) - SDForum Distinguished Speaker Series
		John Markoff talks about his book, "What The Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry." In the 60s, John McCarthy was working on replacing human intelligence using artificial intelligence and Doug Engelbart was working on augmenting human intelligence using computers.
		John Markoff was born in Oakland, California in 1949, grew up in Palo Alto and graduated from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, in 1971.
		Markoff would have the reader believe that all these facts are not only connected, but led to the idea for what has come to be known as the personal computer.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail595.html (898 words)

	Edge: JOHN MARKOFF
		The important thing about Markoff is that he doesn't just get the scoop.
		JOHN MARKOFF covers the computer industry and technology for The New York Times.
		Digerati Dinner: John Markoff's 50th Birthday and extranet roast
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bios/markoff.html (198 words)

	John Markoff Profile
		Markoff is widely respected for his ability to spot and explain trends for readers of the Times before they are generally recognized.
		Overall, Markoff estimated that about half of his published articles were “enterprise” stories, generated from his own initiative and his sources, and about half were inspired by formal external inquiries.
		Markoff admitted to being a technology aficionado, and said it definitely helped him to get an honest story from technologists he interviews.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /donmon1/Clips/SERP/Markoff.htm (1047 words)

	OJR article: NY Times Reporter Has Seen It All Before, and He's Still Pessimistic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Markoff covered the two Steves a year after the birth of the Mac.
		John Markoff has been writing about computers, technology and the Internet for The New York Times since 1988.
		Under Markoff's watch, the idea that everyone could own a personal computer has gone from fantasy to reality, e-mail has transformed how we communicate, and the Internet has given everyone the ability to publish their own version of the news.
	www.ojr.org /ojr/technology/1066258791.php (1588 words)

	John Markoff: The Abolition of Feudalism
		In this book, John Markoff addresses the ways in which insurrectionary peasants and revolutionary legislators joined in bringing "the time of the lords" to an end and how, in that ending, seigneurial rights came to be central to the very sense of the Revolution.
		Of particular importance to the study is Markoff's analysis of the unique cahiers de doléances, the lists of grievances drawn up in 1789 by rural communities, urban notables, and nobles alike.
		John Markoff is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Pittsburgh.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-01538-1.html (600 words)

	John Markoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Markoff joined The New York Times in March of 1988 as a reporter for the paper's business section.
		Markoff grew up in Palo Alto, California and graduated from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, in 1971.
		Markoff is the co-author with Lennie Siegel of The High Cost of High Tech, published in 1985 by Harper & Row.
	www.takedown.com /bio/markoff.html (270 words)

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		John Markoff and Silvio R. Duncan Baretta, "Professional Ideology and Military Activism in Brazil: Critique of a Thesis of Alfred Stepan," Comparative Politics 17, 1985, pp.
		John Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro, "Consensus and Conflict at the Onset of Revolution: A Quantitative Study of France in 1789," American Journal of Sociology 91, 1985, pp.
		John Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro, "Consensus and Conflict at the Onset of Revolution," in Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
	www.pitt.edu /~jm2/cv.htm (4923 words)

	Robbie Bach: New York Times Breakfast with Microsoft
		JOHN MARKOFF: So there was a guy by the name of John Barnes who wrote this really remarkable science fiction book called "Mother of Storms" in about 1992 or 1993, which sort of encompasses this world you're sort of getting at with your 200 million hours.
		JOHN MARKOFF: So how much risk is there -- and I also heard I think you've told me it's not a Cell, I think you've said it's not a Cell Processor, it's not going to be the same thing that's going to be in the Sony, so we'd sort of put a box around it.
		JOHN MARKOFF: Well, I want to open this up to the audience but first I was given a series of questions by e-mail and I want to ask some of them.
	www.microsoft.com /presspass/exec/rbach/04-27-05Churchill.mspx (9000 words)

	John Furrier
		John was one of my first set of Podcasts on PodTech.
		John has mastered the process of identifying interesting people to interview, setting a mini-studio in a hotel lobby, putting enthuiasm into his interviews, keeping them short and interesting, and organizing and promoting his content online.
		John's infoTalk Podcast, presented by Podtech.net, is gaining in popularity in the technology industry and likely will become a sustainable advertising-supported business.
	furrier.typepad.com /john_furrier (1577 words)

	Book review, John Markoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Markoff, a San Francisco technology writer for the New York Times, extends this visionary-centered narrative even deeper into the history of personal computing and the Internet.
		Markoff emphasizes the link between Engelbart's quest to technologically augment the human mind and another engineer's attempt to do so pharmacologically.
		Drugs, in fact, are an ever-present backdrop in Markoff's book: pot is smoked freely in Engelbart's lab (causing his researchers increasingly to be seen as "stoned goofballs" by the other scientists at SRI), and brilliant programmers and writers drop acid with near abandon.
	www3.sympatico.ca /ian.g.mason/John_Markoff.htm (730 words)

	down the avenue: John Markoff Speaks
		New York Times John Markoff will be speaking at the last SD Forum meeting of the season before summer hits next Wednesday evening, June 6th at PARC in Palo Alto.
		John's new book What the Dormouse Said: "How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" will be a highlight and Borders Borders Books will host a book signing for both John Markoff and Dan Gillmor during the networking reception prior to the event.
		In this talk highlighting themes from his new book, Markoff tells the story of the how military funding of basic research, anti-war activism, and readily available psychedelic drugs converged on the mid-Peninsula in the 1960's to create a unique political and cultural environment that led to development of the personal computer.
	www.downtheavenue.com /2005/06/john_markoff_sp.html (320 words)

	Beau Geste (1939 b 113') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Markoff props up the dead and finds the jewel on Beau and is about to shoot John when Markoff is killed.
		John puts the note in Markoff's hand and escapes as bugler Digby climbs into the fort.
		John returns to Isobel and Patricia, who reads the letter from Beau saying he stole the imitation, because he saw her sell the sapphire.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1939/BeauGeste.html (482 words)

	USATODAY.com - 1960s counterculture shaped the personal computer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Markoff is a wonderful writer and storyteller, and he effortlessly weaves together the stories of the main cast of characters.
		The individuals had the most unusual knack for crossing paths, and Markoff's ability to show these sometimes tangential — but always important — relationships, without losing the thread of the story, is impressive.
		Markoff's book, in its own quiet way, through telling the story of the development of the personal computer, reminds the reader that many of the ideas and convictions that Americans now take for granted in our culture were developed and nurtured during this tumultuous decade.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/products/books/2005-04-14-pc-peace-review_x.htm (514 words)

	Digerati: The Scribe: John Markoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He tells us about something we didn't know was happening, then goes down another layer to what it means in the larger context.
		John Markoff (alias "Scoop") is the technology correspondent of The New York Times.
		He is the coauthor of The High Cost of High Tech (with Lennie Siegel, 1985); Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier (with Katie Hafner, 1991); and Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw (with Tsutomu Shimomura, 1995).
	www.edge.org /digerati/markoff (252 words)

	UCLA Anderson School of Management \| Gerald Loeb Awards \| John Markoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Markoff joined The New York Times in March 1988 as a reporter for the business section.
		Markoff has written about the field of technology since 1977.
		Markoff is the co-author of "The High Cost of High Tech," published in 1985 by Harper and Row.
	www-prev.anderson.ucla.edu /x8893.xml (260 words)

	JWSR-v5n2-John Markoff
		Only one year after Rousseau's complaint, in fact, the expulsion of John Wilkes from the British Parliament set off a long campaign fought out in the journalistic, judicial, electoral, and parliamentary arenas -- and in the streets -- that was an early prototype of the modern social movement.
		For discussion of the semiperipheral location of much democratic innovation, see John Markoff, "From Center to Periphery and Back Again: Reflections on the Geography of Democratic Innovation" in Michael Hanagan and Charles Tilly, eds., Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), pp.
		John Markoff and Verónica Montecinos, "The Ubiquitous Rise of Economists," Journal of Public Policy 13, 1993, pp.
	jwsr.ucr.edu /archive/vol5/number2/html/markoff (10600 words)

	Amazon.com: CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although Markoff is an exceptional writer and the book is both easy to read and entertaining, the content is presented as factual when the truth is that these guys definitely wrote the book with only part of the whole story at their disposal.
		Markoff traveled extensively with Tsutomu Shimomura, the security expert who eventually (and with much government aid) apprehended Mitnick.
		But to hear Markoff tell it, everyone was petty, whining, insecure, and one-dimensional, with no other motivation than to cause trouble for others.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684818620?v=glance (1872 words)

	American Scientist Online - John Markoff
		Journalist John Markoff has been covering technology since 1977, first for the San Francisco Examiner and now for the New York Times, which has nominated him three times for the Pulitzer Prize.
		"Out of that convergence came a remarkable idea," Markoff writes, "personal computing, the notion that one person should control all of the functions of a computer and that the machine would in turn respond as an idea amplifier." Ultimately, he says, that vision produced and drove the personal computer revolution of the last two decades.
		John Carmack at Id Software is probably the best real-world example of this.
	www.americanscientist.org /template/InterviewTypeDetail/assetid/43124 (1040 words)

	IT Conversations: John Markoff (Part 2 of 2) - SDForum Distinguished Speaker Series
		In this second part of an evening with John Markoff at the SDForum Distinguished Speaker Series, Bill Duvall, Lee Felsenstein, Dennis Allison and Larry Tessler follow-up with John and explore the beginnings of the PC revolution.
		His demo of the mouse had a profound influence on a whole generation of computer scientists and programmers.
		Another stalwart was John McCarthy who was working on replacing human intelligence in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail609.html (1115 words)

	Faculty: John Markoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Markoff is a senior writer for The New York Times, where he covers computer and technology issues.
		He is completing a book on the history of events that led to the creation of the personal computer in Silicon Valley during the two decades leading up to 1975.
		He received his undergraduate degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and a master's degree in sociology from the University of Oregon.
	communication.stanford.edu /faculty/markoff.html (128 words)

	Winding Down: Homework: Interview with John Markoff
		There is a brilliant interview with author John Markoff in the August 9 issue of Ubiquity.
		Markoff is talking about his new book "What the Dormouse Said".
		The book is about the relationship between the sixties counter culture and rise of the personal computer.
	alanlenton.blogspot.com /2005/09/homework-interview-with-john-markoff.html (210 words)

	» Dvorak Channels Markoff \| Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter \| ZDNet.com
		Apparently, the two information professionals recently got together and discussed their perspective, Dvorak quoting Markoff as saying that "blogging is essentially the same as 'stamp collecting' for the semi-retired" and that "Markoff believes it has no future since no reporting is done." The emphasis is Dvorak's.
		In John Dvorak's case, I enjoy his posturing, knowing its roots in showmanship and a Limbaughian contract with the audience to entertain.
		In John Markoff's case, his byline is one I seek out, respecting his instinct for what's fit to print and appreciating his well-deserved location at the peak of his profession.
	blogs.zdnet.com /Gillmor/index.php?p=28 (972 words)

	Reminder: John Markoff Lecture on Wednesday \| Bayosphere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John "I already have a blog, it's www.nytimes.com" Markoff is giving a talk on Wednesday in Palo Alto about his important new book, What the Doormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry.
		Markoff is a great writer......can't wait to dig into the book....summer reading for geeks on the beach!
		Presumably, a "doormouse" would be a mouse that holds the door, one found, maybe, in front of tiny little mouse condos on the Upper West Side.
	bayosphere.com /node/498 (466 words)

	Michael Gartenberg - Weblogs and CB Radio - Love is a better master than duty
		Markoff said "it's not clear yet whether blogging is anything more than CB radio...
		Back in the 90s when I was an analyst at Gartner, one of my colleagues at the time referred to the entire Internet in a research note as a “passing fad, the CB radio of the 90s”.
		As someone that has covered the tech industry from the earliest days of the PC, John should know better than to be so dismissive of something, so early on in it’s life cycle.
	weblogs.jupiterresearch.com /analysts/gartenberg/archives/001712.html (449 words)

	Daring Fireball: On the Credibility of The New York Times
		this 2002 Times article by John Markoff, speculating that Apple was on the cusp of releasing an Apple-branded “iPhone”.
		Markoff quotes analysts and unnamed individuals “close to the company”, but offers no genuine inside information from Apple employees.
		Now, obviously, one reason for that is that he was wrong — Apple was not on the cusp of releasing an iPhone in 2002.
	daringfireball.net /2005/03/nyt_credibility (802 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Since much of the research behind the development of the personal computer was conducted in 1960s California, it might seem obvious that the scientists were influenced by the cultural upheavals going on outside the lab.
		He shows how almost every feature of today's home computers, from the graphical interface to the mouse control, can be traced to two Stanford research facilities that were completely immersed in the counterculture.
		The combustive combination of radical politics and technological ambition is laid out so convincingly, in fact, that it's mildly disappointing when, in the closing pages, Markoff attaches momentous significance to a confrontation between the freewheeling Californian computer culture and a young Bill Gates only to bring the story to an abrupt halt.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0670033820 (445 words)

	Better Living Through Software - A Budding John Markoff? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Borrowing a page from John Markoff's playbook, he starts with an exciting and heroic thesis, and then shops around for facts that might support the basic theme.
		Thesis: "the chief executive of a venture capital firm founded by the CIA warns of the danger of amassing a large, unified database that would be available to government investigators".
		The thesis is classic Markoff technique -- Lohr's CIA-CEO-VC is almost as inspiring as Markoff's Poet-Ninja-Hacker character in "Takedown".
	www.netcrucible.com /blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=302 (380 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw-By the Man ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A central tenet of the Littman book is that Shimomura and Markoff conspired to publicize Kevin Mitnick's hacking to take advantage of rampant Internet hype, the better to profit from lucrative book and movie deals.
		It has been noted that Markoff, while highly respected, was not overly quick to point out his role in the affair in his Times' dispatches.
		Markoff was a victim of Mitnick's hacks and had been a longtime acquaintance of Shimomura's.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0786889136 (1299 words)

	Powell's Books - Waves of Democracy : Social Movements and Political Change (96 Edition) by John Markoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Markoff examines several ways in which governing elites of national states mimic each other and ways in which social movements and elites interact.
		Instead of reducing democracy to well-defined and routine practices and institutions such as elections and parliaments, Markoff shows how political movements have repeatedly challenged and remade existing institutions.
		After reviewing two centuries of political conflict, he concludes with a thoughtful and exciting discussion on what democracy means today and what its future might be.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=65-0803990197-1 (257 words)

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