guterman.com: Jimmy Guterman's website

Hi, I'm Jimmy Guterman. I have edited or written for more than 100 magazines, newsletters, and newspapers, some of which are still in existence. I have published six books about rock’n’roll, some of which are still in print. I have produced several dozen records, some of which I was paid for. I have consulted for many companies, none of which I will joke about. On this website, you can find out more about me than you’d ever want to know.

Current Activities

I'm editorial director of the Radar Group at O'Reilly Media, where I edit Release 2.0, among other things. I am editor at large for Harvard Business School Publishing. I am the producer of The Sandinista Project, which, to my great delight and surprise, is out (the double CD and deluxe packaging is a mere $18.98 on Amazon). If you're here because you're looking for editorial development, management, production, and consulting, my business, The Vineyard Group, is not now accepting new clients, either in the traditional or new media practices. guterman.com is my personal site.

Some older projects I get asked about

Forrester Magazine (external link; please contact me if you need copies)
The Economics of Social Media
Media Unspun, final issue, archive
First five books (external link)
Full typo-ridden text of my 15-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis book
Gaming Industry News (1, 2, 3, 4, 5; all in Acrobat format)
Runaway American Dream (Amazon; New York Times review available only to TimesSelect subscribers; local copy)

Borderline-obsolete Resume

Word, Acrobat

 

Semi-Recent Writing

My blog is moving and will be back in June. I contribute regularly to the O'Reilly Radar. I muse about innovation, business, and two of my favorite projects in this AllThingsD column. I've been asked to post my editor's columns for the three issues of Forrester, which I've done here ("A Magazine?), here ("Power to the People"), and here ("Same as The Old Boss"), all in Acrobat format. I don't do much periodical work anymore. I had a piece in FORTUNE about mobile phones on commercial airplanes. Finally out, a mere four years after I wrote the liner notes for it, is Wallace Shawn's The Fever. You can also read a not-bad 2005 op-ed piece for The Boston Globe and an Astral Weeks essay for HeadButler.com. A while back I was part of a team asked to figure out how to save a particular dot-com magazine. An assignment to profile Bob Moog turned, alas, into an obituary. I post regular Sandinista Project updates. Much of my writing now is for books that won't be available for a long, long time. You can see a photo of me here.

Random clips from the increasingly distant past

Rhino Records: liner notes for a Rank and File compilation that went out of print almost immediately

Boston Globe op-ed: an appreciation of Johnny Cash (9/15/03)


Harvard Management Communications Letter: Making Work-at-Home Work for Everyone

Harvard Management Update: The Secret to Happy Customers in a Bad Economy

email: jimmy AT guterman dot com (spaces added in a vain attempt to reduce spam)
Apologies to Jakob Nielsen. Anyone who has seen his useit.com knows he thought up this site's design. Expect few graphics and zero multimedia on this modest site. Last site update: 23 April 2008.