Some works by Robert L. Read

Konsenti: A website for forming human consensus

I am the founder of Konsenti, a website for forming human consensus based on a wide variety of ways of doing business. Users can create their own private markets and invite their friends and associates to those markets. A user community for the discussion of Konsenti exists.

The Konsenti website is currently a "beta" edition. It has some bugs and a lot of features that are needed, but is usable today. I need your feedback in order to improve this website.

I intend to work on Konsenti until 2015.

Some writings by Robert L. Read:

Essays

How to be a Programmer How to be a Programmer is also avialable in book form from  Cafe Press.

Transparent Accounting

English-speaking Hackers Should Learn About Esperanto

Patents

I sold this patent about removing defects from a scanner some time ago.

I recently recieved this patent describing a new kind of prism that forms an image with zero internal energy loss over a limited aperture.

Promoting Esperanto

I am on the Board of the Esperanto League of North America and strongly promote learning about the Esperanto.

I have been actively trying to increase the amount of Esperanto literature that is freely available via Project Gutenberg. (There are about 1,000 books in print in Esperanto, but they are not terribly visible to non-Esperanto speakers.) Several great authors have given their Esperanto translations to the world via Project Gutenberg:

I encourage any author, translator, or copyright-holder of Esperanto literature to contact me at: read@robertlread.net to disucss adding it to the Project Gutenberg electronic library.

My Esperanto Translations:

La Skribajxo De La Dio (The God's Script, by Jorge Luis Borges)

La Sorcxado de Ulua (The Witchcraft of Ulua, by Clark Ashton Smith)

La Imerio de la Nekromanciistoj (The Empire of Necromancers, by Clark Ashton Smith)

For Children:

A 5th Grade Lesson on Probability

A Method of Prime Factorization For Children (unfinished) (This is placed under the GFDL at Wikibooks when first written.)