- Adam Curry
Adam Clark Curry (born September 3, 1964 in Washington, D.C.) is a broadcasting and Internet personality well known for his stint from 1987 to 1994 as a video jockey on the music video channel MTV. In the mid-1990s, Curry was a World Wide Web entrepreneur and one of the first celebrities to personally create and administer a Web site. In the 2000s, he helped pioneer podcasting, and is often called the 'Podfather' because of his efforts. He pilots his own Cessna 182 RG.
- Leo Laporte
Leo Laporte is a podcaster for TWiT.tv and is featured in podcasts such as This Week in Tech, Macbreak Weekly, does a video podcast called Macbreak Video, and much more. He was on Tech TV with shows like The Screensavers, and now makes his name from podcasting and more. His personal site and biography can be found at Leoville .
- Wil Wheaton
Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American writer and actor. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" ("ST:TNG"), as Gordie LaChance in the film "Stand By Me", and as prep-school rebel Joseph 'Joey' Trotta in "Toy Soldiers".
- C.C. Chapman
Charles "C.C." Chapman is a prominent figure in the community of podcasting and podsafe music. From a home studio in the Boston area, Chapman hosts the independent music-focused podcasts "Accident Hash" and "U-Turn Cafe", and contributes to PodShow Music Rewind, a weekly digest of music shows on the PodShow network. He also promotes PodShow's Podsafe Music Network, a major archive of music licensed for free use in podcasts.
- Todd Cochrane
Todd Cochrane (born June, 1964) is a technology writer and commentator. In 1988, Cochrane started a bulletin board system. In 1995, he moved his BBS to the Internet. It served as both a gateway (mini ISP) to the Internet for his local community and served more than 20,000 users worldwide. In 1998, the dial-up portion of the BBS was discontinued but still continued as an Internet-only location.
- Violet Blue
Violet Blue (born on September 22) is an American sex writer, podcaster, blogger, editor, sex educator, and sex columnist.
- Merlin Mann
Merlin Dean Mann III (born November 26, 1966 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a writer, and the editor and primary contributor for the website 43 Folders . He currently resides in San Francisco, California with his wife Madeline. ... Merlin Mann gets my vote simply for introducing me to the term "Carter Scratch". You would not believe how many times I have used Carter scratch in conversations. I like how Merlin seems to be having fun most of the time.
- Duncan Riley
Duncan Riley (born September 4, 1975) is a blogger and former Vice President of b5media which he founded along with Darren Rowse, Jeremy Wright and was later joined by Shai Coggins. He lives in Australind, Western Australia, Australia.
- Tod Maffin
Tod Maffin is a contract radio producer at the CBC. He was born in Vancouver. Maffin hosted "todradio.com", a short-lived program about technology, on CBC Radio One in 2002. He comments on technology for some CBC Radio regional morning shows. He sometimes appeared on CBC Television's cancelled "Canada Now". He ran a weblog about the 2005 CBC lockout. In mid-2006, following the lockout, he was authorized to contribute to a CBC-sanctioned, arms-length blog, …
- Evo Terra
Evo Terra is the co-founder of Podiobooks.com, the co-author of Podcasting for Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies. He maintains a consulting practice that helps companies and organizations transition from a passive to an active media world.
- Dr. Peter James
Dr. Peter James aka Boffin1157 born in the late 1950's in the United Kingdom. I currently live, work, and tutor in Northern Romania. I am engaged to Dr. Cristina Felea, teacher, translator and daughter of Romanian Poet & Writer: Victor Felea (1923-1993).Among my numerous qualifications to-date are a degree in Psychology and a 2nd in Forensic Psychology, the latter is my speciality.
- Cameron Reilly
Cameron Reilly (born October 10, 1970) of Yarraville in Melbourne, Australia is a blogger, podcaster and entrepreneur best known for his co-founding of The Podcast Network, a podcasting business with programming from around the world. Married to wife Belinda, they have twin sons Hunter (named after WWE Wrestler Triple_H i.e. Hunter Hearst Helmsley) and Taylor (named after Roger Taylor from Duran Duran).
- Mark Scrimshire
Technology aware Management Consultant with over 25 years experience in multi-national environments. Recent experience has been in delivering programs in the Telecommunications Industry but experience also encompasses other industries that depend upon technology including: - Government; - Energy; - Financial Services; I specialize in rapid deployment of solutions to address business problems using Web 2.0 technologies and techniques. I am looking for project opportunities that will . . .
- Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He and his wife, Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble , currently work at PodTech.net , a video-podcast startup. He is the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel .
- Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson <small>BA, MA, PhD</small> is an author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages. As a commentator on media, popular culture, and science fiction he has been interviewed over 500 times on many local, national and international television and radio shows.
- Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen (born circa 1960) is a British-American entrepreneur and author best known as a critic of Web 2.0. In The Weekly Standard, Keen wrote that Web 2.0 is a "grand utopian movement" similar to "communist society" as described by Karl Marx. "It worships the creative amateur: the self-taught filmmaker, the dorm-room musician, the unpublished writer.
- Om Malik
Om Malik is the founder of GigaOmniMedia, Inc., an online news and weblog that delivers technology news, analysis, and opinions to a monthly global audience of one million consumers and professionals interested in the world of hi-tech. His daily rants on tech/telecom and broadband can be found at http://gigaom.com . Panel: Panel Discussion: Scaling and High Availability Challenges
- Alex Lindsay
Alex Lindsay, founder of the Pixel Corps, has been involved in computer graphics for nearly 20 years. Having extensive experience in digital production including print, real-time graphics, multimedia titles, forensic animation, television, and film, he spent several years on the production of "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" (at JAK Films and then at Industrial Light and Magic).
- Kamla Bhatt
Kamla Bhatt is India's premier blogger and India's first podcaster. She is also a freelance writer and researcher. Kamla is a featured podcaster contributor to the IndiaTech feature on Silicon Valley's PodTech.Net. Her popular radio / podcast show is called Kamla Bhatt Show.
- Rocco Rampino
- Kiruba Shankar
Kiruba Shankar (born June 20, 1973) is a well known Indian blogger and podcaster currently (2006) living in Chennai. He has co-founded a Web development company, F5ive Technologies, in which he plays a senior role. He was earlier an associate director in a company named Sulekha.com.
- Jon Udell
Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and groupware evangelist. He has been an independent consultant, was BYTE Magazine's editor-at-large, executive editor, and Web maven, and once upon a time was a developer at Lotus. In June 2002 he joined InfoWorld as lead analyst, author of the weekly Strategic Developer column, and blogger-in-chief. He also writes a monthly column for the O'Reilly Network.
- Cory Doctorow
A former EFF staff member and recipient of EFF's 2007 Pioneer Award , Cory Doctorow is now an EFF fellow. In addition to being an award-winning author of both science fiction and nonfiction works, he is co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing . His novels include Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom ; Little Brother ; and Eastern Standard Tribe . He enjoys googling for interesting facts about long walks on the beach.
- Kennedy Goodkey
Kennedy is a guy who does stuff. Don't try and stop me.
- G. J. Goldwyn
- Scott Buffington
Scott Buffington (born December 6, 1970 in Hanover, Pennsylvania) is a UNIX system administrator, developer, web designer, broadcaster and writer specializing in application architecture and development, interface design, technical communications and podcasting, with over 16 years of hands-on industry experience. He is the author of Nitevilla, developer of content management systems (like the one powering Brutal Deluxe, UNIX Odyssey and CPUUG, …
- Larry Hryb
Larry Hryb, known by the pseudonym Major Nelson, is the Director of Programming for Xbox Live, the popular Microsoft gaming network. His popular blog Xbox Live's Major Nelson provides an "inside" look at operations at Microsoft's Xbox division; in particular, he discusses the online features and functionality first and foremost. He also discusses recent games and other news that interests him.
- Rocky Sunico
"Nothing surpasses the complexity of the human mind."- Leto II, Dar-es-Balat Records
- Steve Barr
- Paull Young
I am an intuitive online communicator with a passion for Public Relations and social media. I'm a blogger and podcaster, and my major academic interests focused on online public relations. My blog 'Young PR' was Australia's first student PR blog, and I believe it to be the third ever Australian PR Blog. I have been a principal contributor at Forward (http://forward-moving.com) since its debut, and I am currently the Director of Forward Podcast.
- Scott Ericson
- Jonathan Hoel
- John Wiseman
My name is John Wiseman, I'm a web developer and consultant living in Ottawa, Ontario. For as long as I can remember I've been working with computers. Seven years ago I started my first web development job, today I find myself continuing to learn, grow and increase my involvement within the community.
- Renato Biolcati Rinaldi
- Stan Relihan
President & CEO of Expert Executive Search - one of Asia Pacific's best-connected Search, Selection & Recruitment Firms. Also a leading international Headhunter, Neural Networker & Technology Enthusiast; Keynote Speaker; Internet & Web 2.0 Subject Matter Expert; Top 30 LinkedIn 'Power User'.Host of TPN :: The Connections Show, an audio podcast series that puts you ahead of the curve with the latest developments in Social & Business Networking. http://connections.thepodcastnetwork.com
- Ben Patrick Johnson
Ben Patrick Johnson (born June 30, 1969 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American writer, model, entertainment journalist and voiceover actor. His first national exposure came as the announcer and anchor for "Extra", an entertainment magazine show, in 1994. Johnson claims that he was demoted to on-air correspondent after the show's producers learned of his homosexuality. Warner Bros. Television, producers of "Extra", refused to comment on Johnson's allegation.
- Donal Coonan
Donal Clifford Coonan (born December 15, 1981 in London, England) is the presenter of Channel 4's web show "thisisaknife".
- Matt Dickman
Interactive marketing strategist, speaker and technology evangelist.
- Niall Kennedy
I am a music nut, a history buff, and an all-around down to earth easy going guy. I like soccer, movies, hiking, live music shows, and exploring new places in general. I am on a constant search for the best burrito and the best coffee San Francisco has to offer.
- Craig Cmehil
Craig Cmehil is a web developer going back to the early 90's. Originally from Florida USA, he's now made a home for himself in Germany.