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Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media, which is a highly respected book publisher and technology information provider. An employee of the company since 1992, Andy currently specializes in free software and open source technologies. His work for O'Reilly includes the first books ever published commercially in the United States on Linux, and the 2001 title Peer-to-Peer. His modest programming and system administration skills are mostly self-taught.
Andy is also a member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and writes often for the O'Reilly Network and other publications. Topics include policy issues related to the Internet and trends affecting technical innovation and its effects on society. His web site is www.praxagora.com/andyo.
Andy works at the O'Reilly office in Cambridge, Massachusetts and lives nearby with his wife, two children, and a six-foot grand piano that can often be heard late at night.
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What I like about the health care technology track at the Open Source convention
May 19 2010
The health care technology track at the Open Source convention touches on core areas for improvement: patient-centered care, the use of mobile devices, administrative efficiencies, and the collection, processing, and display of statistics to improve health care read moreCrowdsourcing and the Challenge of Payment
May 11 2010
A report on a meetup to discuss distributed work, with Jeff Howe as speaker. read moreNotes from the Politics of Open Source conference
May 10 2010
Sponsored by the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, the conference papers and a live stream are online. This article focuses on the challenges of getting open source into government agencies. read moreReport from Health Information Technology in Massachusetts
May 01 2010
When politicians organize a conference, there's obviously an agenda--beyond the published program--but I suspect that it differed from the impressions left by speakers and break-out session attendees at Health Information Technology: Creating Jobs, Reducing Costs, & Improving Quality. read moreOpen source sweeping software firms, bolstering SaaS (interview with Black Duck)
April 28 2010
Free and open source software is profiting from its own maturity, the economic recession, and the comfort level of developers for using the software, and nowhere is open source more important than in Software as a Service. read moreMySQL conference 2010: thriving as one of many
April 15 2010
The future course of MySQL in an environment with many new and intriguing alternatives to relational databases, and multiple versions of MySQL itself. read moreMySQL conference begins in the midst of industry shifts
April 13 2010
The conference comes at a time of unusual uncertainty and change for MySQL--and I'm not talking about the Oracle acquisition, which the community dealt with last year. read moreMongoDB experts model the move from a relational database to MongoDB
April 08 2010
Because the MySQL conference starts next week and O'Reilly just released a pre-publication version of MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, I decided to spice up discussion a bit by asking the authors about a common question: how to move from MySQL to MongoDB. read moreDC Circuit court rules in Comcast case, leaves the FCC a job to do
April 06 2010
The DC Circuit didn't tell the FCC to turn back. It has a job to do--promoting the spread of high-speed networking, and ensuring that it is affordable by growing numbers of people--and it just has to find the right tool for the job. read moreImagine a world that has moved entirely to cloud computing
April 01 2010
For April Fools Day: a short story about a rare skill: Hardware Guy. read moreWhy health care is coming to the Open Source convention
March 26 2010
This year for the first time, O'Reilly's Open Source convention contains a track on health care IT. In this blog I'll explain why we created the track and why OSCon is a promising venue for trends that will move and shake health care in positive ways. read moreMarch 22 2010
I just heard of the death of Robin Milner, which seems to have been quite unexpected. Professor Milner was interviewed in Masterminds of Programming in relation to his work on the ML language. read moreCurrent activities at the Electronic Information Privacy Center
March 19 2010
A few of the recent campaigns of Electronic Information Privacy Center include whole-body imaging at airports, the Smart Grid, and cell phone privacy in the workplace. EPIC demands that institutions take responsibility for privacy, designing it into their systems. read moreNoSQL: Staying for the feature presentation
March 12 2010
I left the NoSQL Live conference in Boston with the impression that features rather than architecture drive the adoption of NoSQL projects. read moreechotracker as an aggregation tool for different user integrations
March 10 2010
A developer preview was just released of a new open source tool called echotracker that aims to collect interesting information about the people you communicate with and present it to you as you're reading your email. read moreReport from HIMMS Health IT conference: building or bypassing infrastructure
March 05 2010
lectronic record systems need all kinds of underlying support. Your patient doesn't want to hear, "You need an antibiotic right away, but we'll order it tomorrow when our IT guy comes in to reboot the system." Your accounts manager would be almost as upset if you told her that billing will be delayed for… read moreReport from HIMMS Health IT conference: toward interoperability and openness
March 04 2010
The U.S. has a mobile population, bringing their aches and pains to a plethora of institutions and small providers. That's why health care needs interoperability. Furthermore, despite superb medical research, we desperately need to share more information and crunch it in creative new ways. That's why health care needs openness. read moreReport from HIMMS Health IT conference: from Silicon Valley technology to Silicon Valley risk-taking
March 02 2010
Although many people have been saying that the medical field would benefit from a Silicon Valley approach to technology, it's coming to seem that even more important would be a Silicon Valley approach to risk-taking. Initial report from annual HIMSS conference. read moreNoSQL conference coming to Boston
February 24 2010
On March 11 Boston will host a conference on the movement broadly known as NoSQL. This blog looks at who uses these projects and discusses the role of open source communities. read moreInnovation Lessons in "Start-Up Nation"
February 15 2010
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle investigates the social, historical, and psychological traits that produce extraordinarily creative people--and significantly, creative people who can translate their cranial light-bulbs into technologies with the potential to change the world. read moreOne hundred eighty degrees of freedom: signs of how open platforms are spreading
February 05 2010
Visualize open networks--and remember how far we've already come from the days before flat-rate long distance phone calls (much less app stores for cell phones). read moreTrademarks, trust, and software quality
January 29 2010
Trademark law hasn't caught up to free and open source software. But the issues it needs to address are parallel to quality and trust issues in the technology. read moreInnovation Battles Investment as FCC Road Show Returns to Cambridge
January 14 2010
Yesterday's FCC panel show that innovation and investment are not always companions on the Internet. An in-depth look at the current state of the debate over competition and network neutrality. read moreWayner security flip gets real-life play in Wesabe's Grendel
January 13 2010
A security trick documented by Peter Wayner in the books Beautiful Security and Translucent Databases was also discovered and used by Wesabe. read morePew Research asks questions about the Internet in 2020
January 07 2010
Pew Research conducts a "future of the Internet" survey every few years in which they throw outrageously open-ended and provocative questions at a chosen collection of observers in the areas of technology and society. read moreThe fate of WIPO, ACTA, and other intellectual property pushes in the international economy
January 06 2010
Intellectual property wars are fiercer than ever. But we may be in for a pendulum shift. read moreBeing online: Conclusion--identity narratives
December 30 2009
Identity online is created by combining many discrete items into a coherent picture. This concluding section of the article suggests that Social networking gives individuals more control over the picture. read moreBeing online: Group identities and social network identities
December 28 2009
Groups take on their own identities online, and social networks threaten to subsume individual identities into groups. This section of the identity article explores grouping in all its online facets. read moreBeing online: Forged identities and non-identities
December 26 2009
Creating a fake identity used to be more popular than it is now, but some people have still hidden who they are when going online. This section of the identity article covers some ways they do it. read moreBeing online: What you say about yourself, or selves
December 24 2009
Sociological research about online participation says more about the fringes of identity than everyday activity. This section of the identity article explores how we present unified or fragmented selves. read morePeer to Patent Australia recruits volunteer prior art searchers
December 24 2009
The Peer to Patent project has already earned its place in history. But I've been wondering, along with many other people, where it's going. It's encouraging to hear that a new pilot has started in Australia and has gathered a small community of volunteer patent art seekers. read moreBeing online: Your identity to advertisers--it's not all about you
December 22 2009
Advertisers collect information on us for two reasons: to target us as individuals and to place us in collective categories of consumers. This section of the identity article coves a few of their techniques. read moreBeing online: Your identity online--getting down to basics
December 20 2009
The Internet provides minimal information about us when we go online, but compensates by providing immediate, dynamic exploitation of that information. This section of the identity article shows what we tell others just be connecting to the Internet. read moreBeing online: Your identity in real life--what people know
December 18 2009
Professional investigators can find out more than most people realize about individuals. This section of the identity article introduces how investigators do their work, on and off the Internet. read moreBeing online: identity, anonymity, and all things in between
December 17 2009
Social networking gives us an impetus to review how we appear online. Introduction to an article about identity and anonymity. read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
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