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	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Rich Skrenta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Most of them are IT/Valley vets, CEO Rich Skrenta founded NewHoo and sold it to Netscape a mere six months afterwards, then morphed it into the now famous Open Directory Project.
		Skrenta does not shy from the semantic tag, in fact, he is one of many I’ve spoken with over the course of reporting the book who agree that the web is failing to scale, and well-documented “neighborhoods” of semantic order will help bring the web back into focus.
		Rich met with the VCs about Topix, he told me. "After five minutes, every one of them would tell me their vision of what I had to do to win in the market," he said.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rich-Skrenta (791 words)

	Topix.net's Management Team
		Rich brings to Topix.net a background in both business management and technical expertise.
		Rich also successfully operated a successful small online gaming company from 1994-2001.
		Rich has a BA degree from Northwestern University.
	www.topix.net /topix/team (702 words)

	Open Directory Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ODP was founded as Gnuhoo by Rich Skrenta and Bob Truel in 1998.
		Skrenta was already well known for his role in developing TASS, an ancestor of tin, the popular threaded Usenet newsreader for Unix systems.
		The ODP database/editing software is closed source, although Richard Skrenta of ODP did say in June 1998 that he was considering licensing it under the GNU General Public License.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_Directory_Project (3266 words)

	Elk Cloner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was written around 1982 by a 15-year-old high school student named Rich Skrenta for Apple II systems.
		According to contemporary reports, the virus was rather contagious, successfully infecting the floppies of most people Skrenta knew (including his math teacher), upsetting many of them (including said math teacher).
		Part of the "success," of course, was that people were not at all wary of the potential problem (virus infection could have been avoided by not inserting floppies into computers without hard-booting them before), nor were virus scanners or cleaners available.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elk_Cloner (444 words)

	Editors Weblog - all postings
		Rich Skrenta CEO and founder of Topix.net lauded the numerous options that RSS provides for newspapers at the 58th annual World Newspaper Conference and the 12th World Editors Forum.
		Skrenta reassured his listeners by pointing out that internet advertising has the same problem in 1995, but that it eventually succeeded and is now the fastest growing type of advertising in the world, predicting that RSS will follow a similar pattern.
		Rich Skrenta is CEO and co-founder of Topix.net, an online news aggregator that classifies news by subject and location.
	www.editorsweblog.org /2005/05/rich_skrenta_rs.php (466 words)

	Rich skrenta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/rich_skrenta (135 words)

	Low-key Topix.net tries to recreate a journalist's brain with computers
		Skrenta's relevant past experience comes from the Open Directory Project, which was set up to categorize Web pages for Netscape and later AOL and Time Warner.
		Skrenta: We have a bunch of artificial intelligence algorithms and a big knowledgebase, which basically is reading the words in every story.
		Skrenta: In a year and a half, there have been only four publications that have said, 'We'd rather you not crawl our site.' They've all been really small sites, a TV station in Pennsylvania, a tiny newspaper in Pennsylvania.
	www.ojr.org /ojr/stories/050802Glaser (4848 words)

	Rich Skrenta's home page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Skrenta's virus counts the times the infected disk is inserted in the computer.
		So before long, Skrenta, his friends and even one of his math teachers, discovered their disk libraries suffered from Skrenta's plague.
		Skrenta didn't know just how his math teacher got a copy of Cloner on his disks.
	www.skrenta.com /cloner/nu-clone.html (476 words)

	Micro Persuasion: Topix.net CEO Rich Skrenta on How Blogs Amplify Traditional PR
		Topix.net CEO Rich Skrenta on How Blogs Amplify Traditional PR Shortly after this blog launched I received an intriguing email from Topix.net CEO Rich Skrenta about how his company fused blog PR and traditional media relations to help build brand awareness.
		Rich agreed to take this to the next step with an email interview, resulting in the second in my ongoing series of Micro Persuasion’s “Bloggerside Chats” with CEOs, bloggers, PR professionals and journalists.
		SKRENTA: It's essential to understand what individual bloggers write about and what angle of your pitch might be most interesting to them.
	steverubel.typepad.com /micropersuasion/2004/04/topixnet_ceo_ri.html (1400 words)

	Article - Topix.net - world’s largest news Website - launches with 150K categories - A conversation with CEO Rich ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rich Skrenta, CEO of Topix.net and co-founder of Netscape’s Open Directory Project took a few minutes out of his news day to explain his huge online news creation.
		Skrenta: We have links to the major cities in the country and users can type in zip codes and go to a page just for news about their town.
		We did some research and found that newspaper layout design is actually a rich feel with a 150-year history and there are books and guidelines about rules to follow to make things visually appealing in a print newspaper.
	www.webtalkguys.com /041004.shtml (1668 words)

	Michael Fioritto's Weblog: Last Friday I had
		But Netscape was sold to AOL, and after a while Rich got bored (I assume) and left with the intent of starting a company he could "work into my 40s on." I like the sound of that.
		Skrenta likes to call Topix a “150,000-facet diamond,” at least one facet of which should appeal to most news consumers.
		Topix also creates pages by subject; Skrenta argues that in fact many of their industry-related pages - Wireless, for example, or Search Engines, are among the best sources of business information in the free web.
	www.fioritto.us /weblog/archives/001000.php (1156 words)

	MediaShift . World Wide Flame War::Topix.net Forums Give Window on Cartoon Flap \| PBS
		Topix.net CEO Rich Skrenta (pictured here) wrote on his blog that the thing to do when the discussion gets hot is not to shut it down (like Washingtonpost.com had to do) but to keep it going.
		Skrenta: The geolocation technology we use is 99% accurate on a country level, 80% accurate on a state level, and 75% accurate for U.S. cities.
		Skrenta's answer to your final question suggests that journalists summarize the user comments to bring the best points to the forefront.
	www.pbs.org /mediashift/2006/02/world_wide_flame_wartopixnet_forums_provide_window_on_cartoon_flap.html (1627 words)

	Three Newspaper Publishers Acquire 75% of Topix.net
		Rich and his team will remain in place to hopefully develop more impressive services (I would love to see more international resources) with the influx of capital that will now be available.
		Rich Skrenta told Search Engine Watch that today's deal has been in the works for about four months and the new investors are "keen" on keeping Topix editorially independent versus giving a higher ranking and placement to content from their publications.
		For example, someone browsing the BMW "channel" might be shown cars for sale in their local area from the Cars.com database or a person reviewing the Nursing channel be shown job openings in their area from CareerBuilder.com.
	blog.searchenginewatch.com /blog/050323-000212 (393 words)

	Rich Skrenta - Demoted at Dmoz \| Threadwatch.org
		Rich Skrenta, one of the founders of the ODP lost his root priveleges a day or two ago over at DMOZ - demoted to a common META, ack, the shame of it heh...
		And for those with a lust for Skrenta info, Peter has an interview with the uber geek himself...
		Call Doug a troublemaker if you want (and I do agree with the editors in that thread who wrote that this discussion should not have been public), but it seems to me that every ODP editor who contributed to that thread agreed that this was a clear case of editorial abuse.
	www.threadwatch.org /node/1186 (1006 words)

	Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design » Blog Archive » News 2.0 isn’t journalism - but what is ...
		Rich Skrenta attempts to explain the difference between News 2.0 and journalism:
		Skrenta's analysis makes interesting reading, and his position as the chief of news aggregator-turned-citizen-enabler site Topix.net certainly puts him on fertile ground for examples.
		Follow the links from Jay to Rich to Paul for a fascinating debate on where we are.
	smallinitiatives.com /2006/01/27/news-20-isnt-journalism-but-what-is-it (463 words)

	Rich Skrenta - TheBestLinks.com - Amiga, Apple II, Computer virus, MUD, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rich Skrenta - TheBestLinks.com - Amiga, Apple II, Computer virus, MUD,...
		Rich Skrenta, Amiga, Apple II, Computer virus, MUD, Open Directory Project, Sun...
		In 1982 he wrote the Elk Cloner virus for the Apple II, possibly the first computer virus.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Rich_Skrenta.html (183 words)

	Blogs Moving To The Front Pew
		Gary Price remarked in the Search Engine Watch blog, "In late October, Rich Skrenta posted that RSS usage is at about 12% at Topix.net.
		Rich also said in October that just 7% of the 7000 sources Topix was crawling at that time offered RSS feeds.
		Rich Ord is the CEO of iEntry, Inc. which publishes over 200 websites and email newsletters.
	www.marketingnewz.com /marketingnewz-22-20050104BlogsMovingToTheFrontPew.html (590 words)

	The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Topix.net finds niche with local news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		RICK E. Rich Skrenta is the founder of Topix.net, a Palo Alto, Calif., company that gathers articles from local newspapers, TV Web sites and other sources around the country.
		The Topix algorithms are smart enough to discern metaphors and to place phrases and words in their proper context, Skrenta said.
		Skrenta thinks people eschew the Web for local news because they think they can't find it there, or they don't want to visit the multiple small news Web sites that serve all their local communities.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/businesstechnology/2001895706_bttopix05.html (1009 words)

	SiliconBeat: Newspaper companies take majority stake in Topix.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Topix Chief Executive Rich Skrenta said users should not notice any significant changes at the site, and Topix won't begin favoring news stories from the three newspaper companies.
		Skrenta said he also envisions being able to match content from the companies' classified-ad sites to news stories on Topix.
		Skrenta also said that content from newspapers' print editions, such as real estate transactions, would fit well on the Topix site.
	www.siliconbeat.com /entries/2005/03/22/newspaper_companies_take_majority_stake_in_topixnet.html (831 words)

	Technology: The ghosts in your machine
		At the time, Rich Skrenta saw his creation as nothing more than a little fun by a curious high school student.
		It didn't seem like a big deal at the time, though one of Skrenta's teachers and some of his friends were not amused.
		But in 1982, Skrenta had blazed a trail with one of the first, if not the first, computer viruses.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/08/16/Technology/The_ghosts_in_your_ma.shtml (1515 words)

	Rich Virus Trojaner Info Database
		New Topic, Schwarzenegger suicide note is just a virus, Rich, 1, 394, 28 July 2004 11:52:07 PM by: Anonymous.
		Posted by: Rich Skrenta at April 5, 2004 01:38 AM.
		Virus X-terminator is a feature rich, intuitive and easy to use anti virus software package.
	www.virus-trojaner.de /virus-trojaner/Rich.php (460 words)

	Susan Mernit's Blog: Rich Skrenta: Search is a first step to full utilization of a world-sized corpus of encyclopedic ...
		Rich Skrenta: Search is a first step to full utilization of a world-sized corpus of encyclopedic information
		Recognizing named entities challenges the machine first to be able to tell whether the story cites the movie star or the ordinary person with that name, and then to understand whether the story is actually about the person or just mentioning him or her in passing (this is a big flaw in Google news alerts.)
		Rich also talks about dmoz, the open directory, and says that "while directories were very interesting in the mid '90's, keyword search has eclipsed them as the main ways consumers find information on the Internet."
	susanmernit.blogspot.com /2005/02/rich-skrenta-search-is-first-step-to.html (273 words)

	Tinfinger: Topix defines News 2.0
		After a hiatus of over three months, the Topix.net blog is back with a post by CEO Rich Skrenta namechecking the players in the increasingly crowded news startups sector and listing their venture capital funding:
		Rich defines the market as startups "trying to tag, aggregate or community-edit the news", and also mentions Google News and MSN Newsbot.
		Those 16-odd companies Rich mentioned are all taking different angles on the News 2.0 concept, if such a concept exists as a coherent whole.
	tinfinger.blogspot.com /2006/01/topix-defines-news-20.html (673 words)

	Rich Skrenta DMOZ Access Downgraded
		AP - World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find $50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing global prosperity.
		In his latest column, Rich Salz puts his money where his mouth is by showing how to use his style of WSDL and XML schema to build the client side of a geolocation web service.
		Rich Salz shows us how to create WSDL descriptions of web services simply and easily, using rather a lot of boilerplate.
	www.stargeek.com /item/288324.html (3046 words)

	For Truly Local News Try Topix.Net
		In June 2002, Rich Skrenta, along with 4 others, started developing a new kind of web-based news service.
		Rich's previous experience lends itself well to such a mammoth project.
		Sounds like we'll be seeing a lot more of Rich and his team in the future.
	www.geolocal.com /public/404.cfm (1062 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Short: MD5-based Random Number Generator (PPC+68k) Author: Rich Skrenta, Andreas R. Kleinert (port and sample program) Uploader: info ar-kleinert de Type: dev/c Architecture: m68k-amigaos; ppc-powerup ************************************************************************* After becoming frustrated with the lack of a standalone, portable, decent random number generator, I decided to make one based on a cryptographic one-way hash function.
		Send comments to: skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta) ************************************************************************* The Amiga 68k/PPC version comes with both, makefiles for 68k and PPC, and test programs for both CPUs.
		A few changes had to be made for the Amiga port (#ifdef AMIGA) - and since this random number generator has a "brain", the most important change perhaps was, that the location of this brain now is "s:randseed".
	ftp.sunet.se /pub/aminet/dev/c/MD5Random.readme (233 words)

	They think they can: Small sites challenge big search engines / Newcomers focus on niches, use different methods
		Rich Skrenta, Topix.net's chief executive, explained that his technology automatically scans articles for keywords.
		Skrenta said that searching for news can be cumbersome on other sites such as Google, which features its own news section.
		Simply finding out what happened in a 10-block radius of your house on Google can be difficult searching simply by address or town name, he said.
	www.groxis.com /archives/sfgate_071904 (1066 words)

	ODP Founder Comments & Moving Past Directories
		From SearchEngineBlog.com, Rich Skrenta Interview has Rich Skrenta sharing thoughts on how he went from being a founder of the Open Directory to starting up news search site Topix.
		But the web moved on, and while directories were very interesting in the mid '90's, keyword search has eclipsed them as the main ways consumers find information on the Internet.
		Skrenta also provides some background on how to automatically classify the news and finding copies of stories where registration is not required, when possible.
	blog.searchenginewatch.com /blog/050124-095024 (646 words)

	Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? ... No, It's Rich Skrenta ... \| Threadwatch.org
		Rich contacted me. I'm more interested in what Rich is doing now with Topix, than his past with DMOZ.
		Out of interest I checked the DMOZ category this morning that both Resource Zone and Rubberstamp link to as indicating where the site is listed in DMOZ, and..
		As I assume the good Rich cannot put a lock on sites he adds personally, therefore I assume any qualified editor with sufficient indignation can, and has removed it...
	www.threadwatch.org /node/1159 (905 words)

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