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The
Company

 

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazine, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

O'Reilly's
Digital Media Site

 
Traditional media, such as photography, music, graphic arts, TV, and video, are converging with computer technologies. O'Reilly's Digital Media site applies our expertise in computer technology to the rapidly changing world of creative media. Our audio articles and weblogs, for example, are written by experts who are both musicians and technologists. This provides you with more depth and breadth than you'll find from many other sources online.

The Editors

 
Derrick Story
Digital Media Managing Editor
derrick@oreilly.com

Derrick's experience includes more than 20 years as a photojournalist, a stint as the managing editor for Web Review, and a speaker for CMP, IDG, and O'Reilly conferences. He is the author of Digital Photography Hacks, Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Ed., and the PowerBook and iBook Fan Books. He coauthored iPhoto: The Missing Manual, which is now in its fourth edition. Derrick likes to keep his shooting skills sharp by running his photography business, Story Photography and writing about photography on his The Digital Story site.
 
David Battino
Audio and Digital Music Editor
battino@gmail.com

David Battino, a lifelong musician, is the founding editor of Music & Computers and the Desktop Music Production Guide. He has covered music technology for Electronic Musician, Keyboard, MacAddict, MacHome, Maximum PC, and Productopia.com. David was also Technology Editor for Revolution, the largest launch in music-magazine history, where he designed and produced the monthly CD-ROM. Music Tech (UK) called his 2005 book and DVD, The Art of Digital Music, a "jolly good value." More at www.batmosphere.com.