- Kevin Rose
Robert Kevin Rose (born February 21, 1977 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; better known as Kevin Rose) is best known for founding the social-bookmarking site Digg and as former co-host of the TechTV show "The Screen Savers" (later "Attack of the Show!" on G4) until his departure from the network in May 2005. He attended UNLV for computer science, but dropped out to pursue the 90's tech boom. - Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 - July 4, 1970) was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. - Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey Zeldman is among the web's best-known web designers, authors, and teachers. His personal site, zeldman.com , has welcomed over 16 million visitors and is a daily industry read. Jeffrey is the founder of Happy Cog Studios, the publisher of A List Apart Magazine, and the author of Designing With Web Standards (New Riders, 2003) and Taking Your Talent to the Web (New Riders, 2001). - Tiffany Teen
"Tiffany Teen" was the star of a non-nude (and not quite softcore) yet distinctly erotic pay website, http://www.tiffanyteen.com/, launched March 12 2003 and kept active for almost two years until its cancellation by Tiffany herself in early 2005. Over the course of its two-year life, Tiffany’s website featured about a hundred short and low-quality videos and over ten thousand high-quality photographs depicting her posing in various sexy outfits, … - Craig Newmark
Craig Alexander Newmark (born 6 December 1952 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based website Craigslist. Newmark attended Morristown High School. Upon graduation he attended college at Case Western Reserve University. Newmark is a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet free. He has donated $10,000 to a non-profit group, NewAssignment.Net, … - Harry Knowles
Harry Jay Knowles (born December 11, 1971 in Austin, Texas) is an online film critic best known for his movie news and review website, "Ain't It Cool News". He also appears in "Sky Movies News" for Sky Digital, and since April 2006, as the film critic for "Penthouse" magazine. - David Edwards
David Edwards (born 1962) is a British political writer who specializes in the analysis of corporate media. Born in Maidstone, Kent, Edwards took a degree in Politics at the University of Leicester. He later worked in sales and marketing management for several large corporations. Profoundly dissatisfied with the corporate working environment, in 1991 he left the business world completely, and began his career as a writer, earning his living as a teacher of English. - Sara Jay
Sara Jay (born on November 14, 1977) is an American porn star who has appeared in over eighty pornographic movies and on more than thirty adult websites. Jay was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. After graduating from high school, Jay studied psychology at the University of Cincinnati. To help pay for her college expenses, she began nude dancing. After falling on stage while dancing and suffering a head injury, she began looking for work in adult entertainment. - Darren Barefoot
Darren Barefoot is a writer and marketing executive based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a founding partner at Capulet Communications, a public relations firm specializing in high technology companies. Barefoot wrote a monthly column for the "Yaletown View", whose parent company publishes magazines in British Columbia and California. Barefoot has also written for the Vancouver Sun and "Victoria News" newspapers, … - Jeff Rense
Jeff Rense is an American conspiracy theorist and radio talk-show host of the "Jeff Rense Program", broadcast on US satellite radio via GCN and worldwide via Internet radio. Rense's radio program and website, Rense.com cover subjects such as UFO reporting, paranormal phenomena, conspiracy theories, tracking of new diseases & possible resultant pandemics, unusual environmental concerns (see chemtrails), possible evidence of advanced ancient technology, … - Phil Plait
Philip Plait (a.k.a. The Bad Astronomer) is an astronomer who runs the website Badastronomy.com. He formerly worked at the physics and astronomy department at Sonoma State University. In early 2007 he resigned his job to write on his new book "Death from the Skies". - Tom Toles
Thomas Gregory Toles (born October 22, 1951) is a United States political cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Similar to Oliphant's use of his character Punk, Toles also tends to include a small doodle, usually a small caricature of himself at his desk, in the margin of his strip. Toles left "The Buffalo News" in 2002, accepting an offer from "The Washington Post" to replace Herblock, their late, … - Amanda Davis
Amanda Davis was a writer. She released one collection, "Circling the Drain", and one novel, "Wonder When You'll Miss Me". She died at the age of 32 in a plane crash on March 14, 2003. She was memorialized on several websites. - Sam Brown
Sam Brown, pseudonym of Adam Culbert, is an American illustrator, father and author most famous for his website, explodingdog. The gimmick of the site is that he draws pictures based on titles that visitors to the site send him via email. He has also written two books of art and short stories, "Wish For Something Better" and "Amazing Rain", based on the art of his website. Most of Sam Brown's art is created in Adobe Photoshop on a Wacom tablet, … - Rachel Nichols
Rachel Alexander Nichols is an ESPN reporter who covers breaking news and events for SportsCenter and also contributes investigative pieces and human-interest features for SportsCenter and Outside the Lines. Nichols is a regular part of ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown shows, as well as a regular on ESPN's NBA coverage. She has previously worked for the "Washington Post" and "Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel". - David Pinto
David Pinto is the author of Baseball Musings, a general-interest baseball blog. He is currently a full-time blogger after previously working at Project Scoresheet, STATS, Inc., ESPN, and Baseball Info Solutions. In addition to the blog, Pinto updates the Day by Day database on his website. This database allows users to look at a player’s performance over a given period of time, or compare players over a set time period. - Steve Webb
Steven John Webb, better known as Steve Webb, is a British politician, the Member of Parliament for Northavon and the Chair of the Liberal Democrats Election Manifesto Team. - Steve Chen
Steve Shih Chen (born August 1978 in Taiwan) is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Chen grew up in Taiwan until the age of 8, when his family emigrated to the United States. He attended high school at John Hersey High School as well as the Illinois Math and Science Academy and college from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. - Harmony Rose
Harmony Rose (born 12 October, 1983) is an American pornographic actress. Many of her roles are for adult websites. Rose entered the adult industry in 2004. She also invests in real estate with her mother. She performed her first double penetration on the film "Dual Invasion 4". On a July 18, 2006 appearance on the Howard Stern Radio Show, Rose briefly performed analingus on fellow porn actress Sandra Romain in the studio. - Ward Cunningham
Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham (born May 26, 1949) is the American computer programmer who invented the wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham (commonly known by its domain name, c2.com), on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the Portland Pattern Repository. He currently lives in Beaverton, Oregon. - Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong (born 1968) is a Canadian author, primarily of fantasy works. She has published seven fantasy novels to date, all set in the "Women of the Otherworld" series. Armstrong has confirmed contracts with her American, British and Canadian publishers for novels seven through ten in this series. The seventh novel in this series was published May 1, 2007. Meanwhile, Armstrong's first crime novel was released in July 2007. - Aimee Sweet
Aimee Sweet (born May 14, 1977 in Cranston, Rhode Island) is an American glamour model. Since the age of 6, she began performing in stage plays and singing, as well as developed an interest in sports such as hockey, softball, swim and cross country, which she continued to do through high school. She also was very involved with her school's student council. Sweet's career began at age 19 when she had a chance meeting with Suze Randall. - Yulia Nova
Yulia Nova (Russian: "Юлия Нова", b. November 26, 1982 in Moscow, Russia), is a Russian erotic model. Among fans, Nova is known for her unusually large, natural "G"-cup breasts juxtaposed with her slim figure. Nova attributes the size of her breasts to heredity. Nova is a university law student who entered a Russian beauty contest sponsored by photographer Satoshi Kizu, in the summer of 2000. Nova was chosen over one hundred other applicants. - Andy Borowitz
Andy Borowitz (born January 4, 1958) is a comedian and satirist who won the first-ever National Press Club award for humor. His main outlet is his website, the Borowitz Report. - Michelangelo Signorile
Michelangelo Signorile (born December 19, 1960), is a gay American writer and a national talk radio host whose program is aired each weekday across the United States and Canada. He is a political liberal, unabashedly, and covers a wide variety of political and cultural issues. Signorile is noted for his various books and articles on gay and lesbian politics, and is an outspoken supporter of gay rights. - Mark Fletcher
Mark Fletcher was the founder and CEO of the news aggregator website, Bloglines, and a Vice President of Ask.com until June 2006. Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines on 8 February 2005. In February 2005, Fletcher won one of the annual Rave Awards, presented by "Wired" magazine. Fellow nominees in the Tech Innovator category were Jimmy Wales who is a co-founder of Wikipedia, Adam Curry, Bill Healy and Zhang Zuoyi. - Jessica Darlin
Jessica Darlin (born January 22, 1976 in Wilmington, Delaware) is a former American pornographic actress. Darlin started as an exotic dancer. After meeting a few people from the adult entertainment industry, she moved out west and started doing adult movies in the summer of 1997. Her Wicked Pictures debut was in the Nic Cramer-directed feature "Jealousy" in which she takes part in a male/male/female threesome. She helped found the porn company Extreme Associates. - Stephen Marshall
Stephen Marshall (9 August 1985 - 16 April 2006) was a 20-year old man who made headlines after searching federal Sex Offender registries for the names and addresses of convicted sex offenders, then traveling to Maine and killing two. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Marshall and his family moved to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia when he was a child. His parents divorced in 1996. In 1999, Marshall moved in with his father in Culdesac, Idaho, … - Andy Walker
Andy Walker (born July 4, 1967 in Norwich, England) is a Canadian television personality and journalist. He is best known as having been a co-host alongside Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur of "Call for Help", a technology help television program on G4techTV Canada in Canada and the HOW TO Channel in Australia. - Sarah Lane
Sarah Lane (born October 12, 1976 in Santa Cruz, California) is an American television personality. She grew up in Sebastopol, California, and later attended San Francisco State University where she received a bachelor's degree in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts. She was the senior segment producer and on-air talent for the nightly G4 variety show "Attack of the Show!" (formerly "The Screen Savers"), … - Denis Dutton
Prof. Denis Dutton , associate professor of philosophy, University of Canterbury - Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg , the CEO of Facebook , is a Web developer and entrepreneur. He created Facebook with the help of fellow Harvard student Andrew McCollum. Mark initially launched Facebook on February 4th, 2004, and since then has become a very popular social networking site for all people. Mark now stands as the CEO of Facebook, and runs the site with the help of the Facebook team. Mark was raised in New York in a Jewish family, and began programming at 6th grade. - Selena Silver
Selena Silver (born August 18, 1979 in Australia) is a pornographic film actress. She has appeared in nearly 100 pornographic movies since she began her career in 2003. Selena Silver graduated from university with a degree in Marine Science in 2002, after attending Fort Street High School. In addition to her film career she is an accomplished painter and an avid sailor. Prior to entering the porn industry she was a swimming instructor and a scuba diving instructor. - Greg Page
Gregory John Page (born January 16, 1972 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is a famous Australian musician and actor. He is best known as the original lead vocalist of the children's band The Wiggles. Page has also recorded several solo albums. Page was a member of the Wiggles from the band's inception in 1991, until retiring due to ill health in 2006. When performing with the Wiggles, Page wore a yellow shirt. Like the other Wiggles, Page also had a schtick. - David Benyamine
Frenchman David Benyamine is best remembered as the winner of the 2003 Grand Prix de Paris. It was the second season of that World Poker Tour (WPT) event, and Benyamine took home a357,200 for his victory. As of 2005, his total live tournament winnings exceed $700,000. Another of his more notable WPT achievements is bagging 6th place at the 2nd season of the 2004 L.A. Poker Classic. Though David Benyamine did not place within the top 5, he walked away with $132,355. - Eugene Armstrong
Olin Eugene Armstrong, Jr. (5 June 1953 - 20 September 2004) also known by his nickname "Jack", grew up in the south-central Michigan community of Hillsdale, where he lived until 1990. - Jack Hensley
Jack Hensley was an American engineer from Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, near Atlanta. While working in Iraq he was kidnapped and beheaded by terrorists. His colleague, Eugene Armstrong, was beheaded the previous day. Their killers, Tawhid and Jihad, the terrorist group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, were demanding the release of Iraqi women in U.S. custody. - Simon Mills
Simon Mills is a writer/artist/programmer who was instrumental in the foundation of the influential new media organisation the trAce Online Writing Centre, where he designed and built the first website and remained principal designer until 2005. On leaving trAce, Mills became Senior Lecturer in New Media at De Montfort University, where he teaches new media and is course leader for the post-graduate Diploma in New Media Publishing. - Rob Schrab
Rob Schrab is a comic book creator, actor, writer, and film producer. He works heavily with the alternative television network/website Channel 101. He has created the comic book Scud: The Disposable Assassin, the short film Robot Bastard, the television pilot Heat Vision and Jack starring Owen Wilson and Jack Black, and the Channel 101 shows Ringwald and Molly and Twigger's Holiday. - Daniel Brandt
Daniel Leslie Brandt (born circa 1948 to missionary parents in China) is an American activist on the World Wide Web, particularly in relation to Google Inc. and the Wikipedia encyclopedia project. Brandt's current activism centers on demands for accountability from organizations he believes are operating irresponsibly, or in an unnecessarily secretive manner. In 1989, Brandt and Steve Badrich co-founded a non-profit organization called Public Information Research (PIR).
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