Glenn Fleishman
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| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Yale University |
| 💼 Occupation | Journalist |
Glenn Fleishman is an American freelance technology journalist, author, print and type historian and podcaster.
Biography[edit]
Fleishman has a degree in art (graphic design) from Yale College, Yale University (1990), and attended the Yale Summer Program in Graphic Design in Brissago, Ticino, Switzerland, in 1989.
He then founded one of the earliest web hosting firms, Point of Presence Company, which hosted the first feature film broadcast over the internet, "Party Girl", on 3 June 1995.[1] From 1996 to 1997 he then worked at Amazon.com,[2] and has run isbn.nu, a book price comparison service for over 20 years.[3]
Publishing[edit]
In 2003 when he made the book he co-wrote about Real World Adobe GoLive 6 freely available, which resulted in more than 10,000 downloads and almost cost him $15,000 in bandwidth costs.[4]
In 2012 Fleishman became the owner/editor of The Magazine (2012-2014),[5][6][7] a bi-weekly independent digital tech publication.
Fleishman has written for Wired, Fortune, Popular Science, The New York Times, and PCWorld, and regularly contributed to The Economist, The Seattle Times, Macworld, and TidBITS.
In July 2012, Fleishman participated in and reported the photo shoot at the conclusion of The Oatmeal's Operation BearLove Good, Cancer Bad.[8][9]
Jeopardy[edit]
In October 2012 Fleishman participated in Jeopardy! and won twice.[10][11][12][13]
Typesetting[edit]
Fleishman has also worked extensively as a typesetter and a graphic designer among other professions.[14] He is the editor of Shift Happens, a multi-volume history of keyboard by Marcin Wichary.[15]
Between 2019 and 2020 he created 100 Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsules. This celebration of type and printing was an effort to preserve history for future generations to re-discover.[16] He wrote and published an accompanying book Six Centuries of Type & Printing.
Podcasting[edit]
Fleishman has hosted podcasts such as The New Disruptors (2018-2020),[17] Pants in the Boot on The Incomparable Network and appears regularly on the Mothership and Game Show channel.[18] He is also a recurring guest on the This Week in Tech network.[19]
Personal life[edit]
He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife and two children.[20]
Selected bibliography[edit]
Fleishman has written, co-written and edited a number of books.[21]
- Six Centuries of Type & Printing (2019)
- Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It (2017)
- The Magazine: The Book (2014)
- Take Control book series (2004-2020)[22]
- Real World Adobe Golive 4-6 (1999-2002)
References[edit]
- ↑ Saperstein, Ari (8 June 2020). "How the First Popular Movie Ever to Stream Online Was Made". WSJ Magazine. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
- ↑ McCullough, Brian (9 February 2015). "Chapter 7, Supplemental 3 – Catalog Manager Glenn Fleishman Discusses Amazon's Early Days". Internet History Podcast (Interview; podcast). Episode 48. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
- ↑ "isbn.nu: About This Site". isbn.nu. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ↑ Ward, Mark (5 May 2003). "The dangers of having a good idea". BBC News. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
- ↑ Wilhelm, Alex (29 May 2013). "Marco Arment sells The Magazine to editor Glenn Fleishman, 1 month after offloading Instapaper to Betaworks". TNW. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
- ↑ "After 22 Months, The Magazine Is Changing Its Strategy". Fast Company.
- ↑ "Why Apple's Newsstand isn't working out as hoped for 'The Magazine'". GeekWire.
- ↑ Fleishman, Glenn (2012-05-29). "Oatmeal Spells F U in Money Shots". Boing Boing. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
- ↑ "BearLove Giant Pile of Charity Money - a set on Flickr". Flickr.com. July 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
- ↑ Fleishman, Glenn (October 19, 2012). "What it's like to be on Jeopardy". Boing Boing.
- ↑ "Two Games!". Glenn Fleishman writes words about things. 28 October 2012.
- ↑ "Show #6459 - Thursday, October 18, 2012". J!Archive. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
- ↑ "Show #6460 - Friday, October 19, 2012". J!Archive. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
- ↑ "About". Glenn Fleishman writes words about things.
- ↑ "Shift Happens: A book about keyboards". shifthappens.site.
- ↑ "The Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule". Glenn Fleishman writes words about things.
- ↑ "The New Disruptors – The new economy of connecting creators to audiences".
- ↑ "Glenn Fleishman on the Incomparable". The Incomparable.
- ↑ "Episodes - Glenn Fleishman". This Week in Tech.
- ↑ "About". Glenn Fleishman writes words about things.
- ↑ "Books by Glenfleishman". Goodreads. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ↑ "Glenn Fleishman - Take Control Books". Take Control Books. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
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- "Party Girl" First Feature Film Broadcast on Internet (NBC) on YouTube
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