Current and Recent Activities

Most recently, I was senior editor of Harvard Business Review. Before I came to HBR, I was executive editor of MIT Sloan Management Review. Before that, I was editorial director of the Radar Group at O'Reilly Media, where I edited Release 2.0, among other things. And before that I was an editor at large for a team at Harvard Business School Publishing that publishes the online and print publications I worked for until recently, thus closing the circle. The most recent record I produced is The Sandinista Project (the double CD and deluxe packaging remains a mere $16.05 on Amazon). If you're here because you're looking for editorial development, management, production, and consulting, my business, The Vineyard Group, is accepting new clients, both in the traditional and new media practices. (Client list available upon request; see email address at bottom of page.) guterman.com is my personal site.

Some older projects I get asked about

Forrester Magazine (external link on forrester.com seems to have disappeared; please contact me if you need physical copies)
The Economics of Social Media (the inaugural paidContent conference)
Media Unspun (final issue, archive, blog post explaining this email newsletter)
First five books (external link, thanks Randy)
Full typo-ridden text of my 20-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis book
Gaming Industry News (1, 2, 3, 4, 5; all in PDF)
Runaway American Dream (Amazon; New York Times review of my book about Bruce Springsteen)

Resume

Recent and Semi-Recent Writing

My blog is here; I'm on twitter as well. My recent articles for the print HBR include When the Longtime Star Fades, Sharing Ideas and Hors d'Oeuvres, and Generation Robot. (PDFs for these articles coming in February.) Other recent blog posts on HBR.org include When Storytelling Isn't Enough, Stephen Wolfram and the Science of Business, Do We Need Leaders?, Rupert Murdoch's Last Stand, Enticing the Next Generation of African Leaders, and (these last three are my favorites of this bunch) Consulting for the Evil Empire, News Corp. and Closed News Platforms, and The Day Job, Redefined. You should be able to find all my published work for HBR here.

As of November 2011, the lucky 13 most commonly visited posts on my blog (not counting the two brief times I gave away The Sandinista Project) are:

• Why screwing up is the smartest thing you can do (my 2008 TED-U talk)
• Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs
• Barack Obama, Rolling Stone, and the secret of one great magazine cover
• Ida Maria and the downside of authenticity
• Soap for the troops
• Brief notes on taste and entertainment: A shark, an octopus, Celine Dion, and Batman
• What I learned from making The Sandinista Project free for a day
• Ida Maria and the record of the year
• Two of us
• Remember the Milk and my first look at the post-Microsoft era
• Rank and File liner notes return, although the compilation is still out of print or sold out or something
• Desperation takes hold
• Farewell to print

I contributed regularly to the O'Reilly Radar while I edited Release 2.0. I mused about innovation, business, and two of my favorite projects in this AllThingsD column back in '07. I've been asked to post my editor's columns for Forrester, which I've done here ("A Magazine?"), here ("Power to the People"), and here ("Same as The Old Boss"), all in PDF. I don't do much periodical work anymore. 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. (I also wrote an appreciation of Johnny Cash for the Globe when he died in 2003.) An assignment to profile Bob Moog turned, alas, into an obituary.