Dale Dougherty

Dale Dougherty (born 1956) is a co-founder of O'Reilly Media, along with Tim O'Reilly. While not at the company in its earliest stages as a technical documentation consulting company, Dale was instrumental in the development of O'Reilly's publishing business. He is the author of the O'Reilly book sed & awk.[1]

Dale Dougherty in 2013 at the Mini Maker Faire in Saint-Malo, France
Dale Dougherty at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference

Biography

Dougherty was the founder, in 1993, and publisher of the Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first web portal and the first site on the internet to be supported by advertising. In 1995, AOL purchased GNN from O'Reilly & Associates. Part of the transaction included an investment by AOL of $3 million for 20 percent of O'Reilly's Songline Studios, which Dougherty ran. The organization published the Web Review and the Music Critic sites on the Internet.[2]

Dougherty helped popularize the term "Web 2.0" at the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference in late 2004, though it was coined by Darcy DiNucci in 1999.[3][4][5][6]

Dougherty is considered by some as the Father of the Maker Movement.[7][8] Dougherty was the CEO of Maker Media,[9] a spin-off from O'Reilly Media.[10] The company published Make magazine, beginning in 2005, had an ecommerce site (Makershed), and conducted Maker Faires worldwide. In June 2019, the company ceased operations and laid off all 22 staff.[11]

In late 2017 Dougherty came under fire for questioning the authenticity of female maker Naomi Wu.[12] Dougherty publicly apologized to Wu for "my recent tweets questioning your identity," saying they represented a failure to live up to the inclusivity that Make magazine valued. Wu herself considers the matter settled.[13][14][15]

In July 2019, Dougherty said that he had bought back the brands, domains, and content from creditors and rehired 15 of the laid-off staffers, and would announce the relaunch of the company with the new name “Make Community.”[16]

See also

References
  1. Robbins, Dale Dougherty, Arnold. "sed & awk" – via shop.oreilly.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Louis Trager (November 8, 1996). "AOL plans to absorb GNN". San Francisco Chronicle.
  3. Graham, Paul (November 2005). "Web 2.0". Retrieved 2006-08-02. I first heard the phrase 'Web 2.0' in the name of the Web 2.0 conference in 2004.
  4. O'Reilly, Tim (2005-09-30). "What Is Web 2.0". O'Reilly Network. Retrieved 2006-08-06.
  5. Strickland, Jonathan (2007-12-28). "How Web 2.0 Works". computer.howstuffworks.com. Retrieved 2015-02-28.
  6. DiNucci, Darcy (1999). "Fragmented Future" (PDF). Print. 53 (4): 32.
  7. Betsy Corcoran (27 May 2017). "Dale Dougherty, Father of the Maker Movement Talks About Breaking Rules, Erasers & Building a Learning Culture".
  8. Delkic, Melina (November 1, 2018). "How 'Makers' Make the Classroom More Inclusive". New York Times. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  9. "Maker Media Help Center". help.makermedia.com.
  10. TJ McCue (January 24, 2013). "More Than A Startup: MAKE Division Spins Out From O'Reilly Media as Separate Company". Forbes.
  11. Constine, Josh (June 7, 2019). "Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  12. Gaudette, Emily (2017-11-07). "How a gorgeous Chinese engineer pissed off Silicon Valley". Newsweek. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  13. Dougherty, Dale (November 6, 2017). "An Open Note to Naomi Wu (and Makers Everywhere)". Make. Retrieved 2017-11-10.
  14. Meyers, Jessica (December 9, 2017). "China's 'sexy cyborg' took on Silicon Valley bro culture — and won". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  15. n/a, Tess (2019-02-28). "Maker Profile: Naomi 'SexyCyborg' Wu on being a woman in tech, 3D printed wearables, more". 3Ders.org. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  16. Constine, Josh (July 10, 2019). "Bankrupt Maker Faire revives, reduced to Make Community". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-04-07.

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