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'''Philip Elmer-DeWitt''' (born September 8, 1949) is an |
'''Philip Elmer-DeWitt''' (born September 8, 1949) is an American writer and editor. He was ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''{{'s}} first computer writer—producing much of the magazine's early coverage of personal computers and the Internet<ref name="TIME Publisher's Letter 7/3/1995">{{Cite web |date=2010-10-08 |title=To Our Readers, Jul. 3, 1995 - TIME |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983122,00.html |access-date=2022-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008030703/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983122,00.html |archive-date=2010-10-08 }}</ref>—and for 12 years its science editor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://weblogs.jomc.unc.edu/talkingbiznews/?p=1986|title=Index of /talkingbiznews|publisher=}}</ref> He is currently writing a daily blog about Apple Inc. called Apple 3.0.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://recode.net/2016/03/14/fortunes-apple-watcher-philip-elmer-dewitt-is-leaving-launching-his-own-site/|title=Fortune Apple Writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt Leaves, Starts His Own Site - Re/code|author=Peter Kafka|work=Re/code|date=14 March 2016}}</ref> |
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==Background== |
==Background== |
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Elmer-DeWitt was born in [[Boston]] and raised |
Elmer-DeWitt was born in [[Boston]] and raised in the [[Six Moon Hill]] neighborhood of [[Lexington, Massachusetts]]. He graduated from [[Oberlin College]] and studied English literature at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] and journalism at [[Columbia University]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1983-02-13 |title=Mary M. DeWitt To Marry in May |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/13/style/mary-m-dewitt-to-marry-in-may.html |access-date=2022-08-12 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He worked as a computer programmer and technical writer for [[Bolt Beranek and Newman]]<ref name="Cite1">https://books.google.com/books?id=6KKpnpLevg4C&dq=Faflick+feurzeig&pg=PA300 Feurzeig et al. 1971</ref> in the late '60s, wrote mathematical games for [[McGraw-Hill]] in the early 1970s and copy-edited textbooks and scientific monographs for [[Academic Press]] in the late '70s.{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}} |
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==Career highlights== |
==Career highlights== |
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Elmer-DeWitt joined ''[[TIME]]'' in 1979 and wrote nearly 500 stories for the magazine, including a dozen cover stories. He launched two sections—Computers and Technology—before being made a senior editor. He edited more than 150 ''Time'' cover stories, including the issues that named AIDS researcher [[David Ho (scientist)|David Ho]] Time's 1996 [[Time Magazine Person of the Year|Man of the Year]] and [[Albert Einstein]] the Person of the Century. His interviews include [[Steve Jobs]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989757,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070616072151/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989757,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 16, 2007|title=Steve Jobs: Apple's Anti-Gates|date=7 December 1998|work=TIME.com}}</ref> [[Bill Gates]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983013,00.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930115829/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983013,00.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 30, 2007|title=INTERVIEW with Bill Gates: Hard Drive|date=5 June 1995|work=TIME.com}}</ref> [[William Gibson]],<ref> |
In 1978, writing as a freelance under the byline Philip Faflick in the [[Village Voice]], Elmer-DeWitt published the first interview with [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]]. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/03/20/jean-michel-basquiat-and-the-birth-of-samo/|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Birth of SAMO|date=11 December 1978|work=Village Voice}}</ref>He joined ''[[TIME]]'' in 1979 and wrote nearly 500 stories for the magazine, including a dozen cover stories. He launched two sections—Computers and Technology—before being made a senior editor. He edited more than 150 ''Time'' cover stories, including the issues that named AIDS researcher [[David Ho (scientist)|David Ho]] Time's 1996 [[Time Magazine Person of the Year|Man of the Year]] and [[Albert Einstein]] the Person of the Century. His interviews include [[Steve Jobs]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989757,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070616072151/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989757,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 16, 2007|title=Steve Jobs: Apple's Anti-Gates|date=7 December 1998|work=TIME.com}}</ref> [[Bill Gates]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983013,00.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930115829/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983013,00.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 30, 2007|title=INTERVIEW with Bill Gates: Hard Drive|date=5 June 1995|work=TIME.com}}</ref> [[William Gibson]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=COVER: WELCOME TO CYBERSPACE |url=http://www.isd1.com/isd/times-1.html |access-date=2022-08-12 |website=www.isd1.com}}</ref> [[Elmore Leonard]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1071265,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306061126/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1071265,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 6, 2008|title=10 Questions for Elmore Leonard|date=12 June 2005|work=TIME.com}}</ref> and [[Anita Roddick]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-09-30 |title=Anita The Agitator - TIME |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977524,00.html |access-date=2022-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930122024/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977524,00.html |archive-date=2007-09-30 }}</ref> He was also the author of the controversial [[Internet pornography#Usenet groups|Cyberporn]] cover story.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-05-19 |title=ON A SCREEN NEAR YOU: {{!}} TIME |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983116,00.html |access-date=2022-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519092205/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983116,00.html |archive-date=2007-05-19 }}</ref> In commenting on that episode, [[Declan McCullagh]] excoriated Elmer-DeWitt for multiple "misrepresentations and errors," "logical fallacies," reporting in a "deceptive manner," and "[refusing] to acknowledge the many errors" in the story.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Ethics of TIME Magazine |url=https://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Declan_McCullagh/www/rimm/time.html |access-date=2022-08-12 |website=w2.eff.org}}</ref> |
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Elmer-DeWitt helped start TIME.com,<ref name="TIME Publisher's Letter 7/3/1995"/> and organized<ref>{{cite |
Elmer-DeWitt helped start TIME.com,<ref name="TIME Publisher's Letter 7/3/1995"/> and organized<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Kelly|first1=James|title=Journalism That Makes a Difference|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1124347,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051101152147/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1124347,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 1, 2005|accessdate=July 5, 2015|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=October 30, 2005}}</ref> ''[[TIME]]'' -sponsored scientific conferences on [[genetics]]<ref name="Cite3">{{Cite web |date=2007-09-30 |title=Next Stop: The Future of Life - TIME |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1004050,00.html |access-date=2022-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930093346/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1004050,00.html |archive-date=2007-09-30 }}</ref> (2003), [[obesity]]<ref name="Cite4">{{Cite web |date=2007-10-17 |title=The New Battle of the Bulge - TIME |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,994349,00.html |access-date=2022-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017230225/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,994349,00.html |archive-date=2007-10-17 }}</ref> (2004) and [[global health]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-11-01 |title=TIME.com: Journalism That Makes a Difference -- Nov. 07, 2005 -- Page 1 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1124347,00.html |access-date=2022-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051101152147/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1124347,00.html |archive-date=2005-11-01 }}</ref> |
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In January 2007, he joined [[Josh Quittner]] at ''[[Business 2.0]]'', another Time Inc. publication, as that magazine's executive editor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://navigator.bacons.com/ARCHIVE/Philip_Elmer-DeWitt.asp |title= |
In January 2007, he joined [[Josh Quittner]] at ''[[Business 2.0]]'', another Time Inc. publication, as that magazine's executive editor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://navigator.bacons.com/ARCHIVE/Philip_Elmer-DeWitt.asp |title=Cision | the Navigator |accessdate=2007-04-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20070504233848/http://navigator.bacons.com/ARCHIVE/Philip_Elmer-DeWitt.asp |archivedate=2007-05-04 }} Bacons The Navigator 2007</ref> In February, he launched<ref>http://weblogs.jomc.unc.edu/talkingbiznews/?p=2362 ''TBN'' Business 2.0 bloggers get first checks 4/5/2007</ref> a blog called [http://fortune.com/Apple20 Apple 2.0: Mac news from outside the reality distortion field]. When Time Inc. folded ''Business 2.0'' in September 2007,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stone |first=Brad |date=2007-09-05 |title=Time Inc. to Close Business 2.0 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/business/media/05mag.html |access-date=2022-08-12 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> he worked briefly for [[Fortune (magazine)|''Fortune'' magazine]]<ref>http://www.nypost.com/seven/09072007/business/rigor_mort_is_at_mag.htm?page=0 ''New York Post'' 9/7/2007</ref> before retiring from Time Inc. in May 2008<ref>http://www.nypost.com/seven/06062008/business/theyll_take_manhattan_114236.htm?page=0 ''New York Post'' 6/6/2008</ref> to write full-time for the web, first for Fortune.com, then for himself. In 2014 he moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.recorder.com/Nearly-40-years-on-Elmer-Dewitt-still-writes-about-Apple-12934850|title=In retirement, Greenfield man's blog covers the up-and-downs of Apple|last=Davis|first=Richie|date=2017-10-14|website=|access-date=}}</ref> married the architect Margo Jones<ref> {{Cite web|url=https://www.recorder.com/Milestones-11250401|title=Wedding: Jones — Elmer|date=May 21, 2017}}</ref> and was elected to the city council of his new hometown.<ref> {{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/elmerliketheglue/posts/pfbid02j8qiA7ZLKcSJHV19iTkKTgAL5xMwtQGQM9g7imMWMW77mvWHWMK1uwVqm9NjUupl|title=Elect Phil Elmer|website=[[Facebook]] }}</ref>He launched Apple 3.0, a blog for Apple investors, on April 1, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fortune.com/2016/03/31/apple-elmer-dewitt-ped30/|title=Happy Birthday Apple, Goodbye Time Inc.|author=Philip Elmer-DeWitt|date=31 March 2016|work=Fortune}}</ref> |
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==Select works from ''Time''== |
==Select works from ''Time''== |
Philip Elmer-DeWitt (born September 8, 1949) is an American writer and editor. He was Time's first computer writer—producing much of the magazine's early coverage of personal computers and the Internet[1]—and for 12 years its science editor.[2] He is currently writing a daily blog about Apple Inc. called Apple 3.0.[3]
Elmer-DeWitt was born in Boston and raised in the Six Moon Hill neighborhood of Lexington, Massachusetts. He graduated from Oberlin College and studied English literature at the University of California, Berkeley and journalism at Columbia University.[4] He worked as a computer programmer and technical writer for Bolt Beranek and Newman[5] in the late '60s, wrote mathematical games for McGraw-Hill in the early 1970s and copy-edited textbooks and scientific monographs for Academic Press in the late '70s.[citation needed]
In 1978, writing as a freelance under the byline Philip Faflick in the Village Voice, Elmer-DeWitt published the first interview with Jean-Michel Basquiat. [6] He joined TIME in 1979 and wrote nearly 500 stories for the magazine, including a dozen cover stories. He launched two sections—Computers and Technology—before being made a senior editor. He edited more than 150 Time cover stories, including the issues that named AIDS researcher David Ho Time's 1996 Man of the Year and Albert Einstein the Person of the Century. His interviews include Steve Jobs,[7] Bill Gates,[8] William Gibson,[9] Elmore Leonard,[10] and Anita Roddick.[11] He was also the author of the controversial Cyberporn cover story.[12] In commenting on that episode, Declan McCullagh excoriated Elmer-DeWitt for multiple "misrepresentations and errors," "logical fallacies," reporting in a "deceptive manner," and "[refusing] to acknowledge the many errors" in the story.[13]
Elmer-DeWitt helped start TIME.com,[1] and organized[14] TIME -sponsored scientific conferences on genetics[15] (2003), obesity[16] (2004) and global health.[17]
In January 2007, he joined Josh QuittneratBusiness 2.0, another Time Inc. publication, as that magazine's executive editor.[18] In February, he launched[19] a blog called Apple 2.0: Mac news from outside the reality distortion field. When Time Inc. folded Business 2.0 in September 2007,[20] he worked briefly for Fortune magazine[21] before retiring from Time Inc. in May 2008[22] to write full-time for the web, first for Fortune.com, then for himself. In 2014 he moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts,[23] married the architect Margo Jones[24] and was elected to the city council of his new hometown.[25] He launched Apple 3.0, a blog for Apple investors, on April 1, 2016.[26]