The founder and publisher of
Contentinople, Scott has been chasing packets around since 1994, when he worked
on the copy desk at the now-defunct networking book LAN
Times. He has been writing about technology for 15 years.
As an expert on technology
markets, he has been quoted in publications including Reuters, Dow
Jones, Barron's, and the San Jose Mercury News. He has
also been interviewed on CNN and National Public Radio.
Prior to founding Contentinople
on a corporate dare, Raynovich was part of the original Light
Reading editorial team. He joined in April of 2000, cleverly timed to
coincide almost exactly with the crash in the dot-com and telecom markets.
Despite these adverse circumstances, the "scrappy" and
always-profitable Light Reading survived and flourished, growing from
0 to $14 million in revenue before being acquired by United Business Media in
2005. In addition to contributing to Light
Reading itself, Raynovich has also written for Light Reading
offspring Unstrung (www.unstrung.com), and Internet
Evolution (www.internetevolution.com).
Prior to joining Light
Reading, Raynovich was Investment Editor for Red
Herring magazine, where he also served as the New York Bureau Chief and
helped build the original Redherring.com Website (before it became that
"other," post-bubble, Redherring.com). Other past journalistic
enterprises include writing about day traders for Wired.com;
inverviewing Olympic Gold medalist Bill Johnson for the Crested Butte (Co.) Chronicle and Pilot;
exposing corrupt Massachusetts politicians as Associate Editor at the Arlington
(Mass.) Advocate; and chronicling politics, soccer, and "arts"
for The Prague Post and Prognosis in the
Czech Republic. He was also once accidentally published in the German magazine Der
Spiegel, without pay.
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