Mary Jessamyn West was an American Quaker who wrote numerous stories and novels, notably "The Friendly Persuasion" (1945). Much of her work concerns Indiana Quakers. Although she was born in Vernon, Indiana she left the state at the age of six. Asked about this in an interview, she said, "I write about [Indiana] because knowing little about it, I can create it." Comparing herself to other authors that created fictional universes, …

Jessamyn Charity West (born September 5, 1968) is a librarian and a former member of the American Library Association Council. Her father is Tom West. She is a self-described "anti-capitalist" who as of 2006 operates the blog librarian.net. She also operates the websites jessamyn.com and jessamyn.info and is a moderator on MetaFilter.

Second cousin of President Richard M. Nixon. The character of Jess Birdwell in Friendly Persuasion (1956) (played by Gary Cooper ) was based on their great grandfather. Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 864-865. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.

Librarian and technology instructor in rural Vermont.

Jessamyn West Community technologist, MetaFilter moderator, and editor of librarian.net .

Jessamyn West is a community technology librarian and a moderator of the massive group blog MetaFilter.com. She lives in a rural area of Central Vermont where she teaches basic computer skills to novices including seniors and people with disabilities. She assists tiny libraries with technology planning and implementation, helping them with wifi and websites and making sense of their systems.

JESSAMYN WESt , Librarian. net

Jessamyn West is a librarian living in rural Vermont solving technology problems for schools and libraries. She has been speaking on the intersection of libraries, technology and politics since 2003. She has given presentations in twenty-five U.S. states, two Australian states and two Canadian provinces. Her interest areas are: Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 and how they reflect many of the things libraries are already doing

Librarian and technology instructor in rural Vermont.

I'm 23 years old and a Graduate Assitant at the University of Memphis. That's right...after almost a year of looking for a job I finally found one (well sort of). I'm still going to school; but this time I getting paid for it. I want to be the next Stuart Scott (only in woman form). My dream is to go on "Cold Pizza" and debate head to head with that twirp Skip! As you can tell, my passion is sports. I love everything about them, especially football.

"...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way." -Anne Lamott.

I'm 25...I miss New York and the beach. I love my job, hate CT...open to moving to Hawai'i. Moving into my own place...finally!

I am not cool.

Matthew Haughey (born October 10 1972) is an American programmer, web designer, and blogger best known as the founder of the community weblog MetaFilter, where he is known as "mathowie".

I like Rocks. I believe in sasquatch.

I deliver pizza for a living. I wear black converse every day. I have a roommate. I don't like cut flowers. My cellphone number is long distance. I smoke Marlboro Lights. I'm irresponsible with my money. I read a lot.

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I let Kristen boss me around. See? She made me put that headline up there. (now I've changed the headline, the other one was silly, but Kristen doesn't read her myspace messages so I don't think she knows about it) Also, I'm an excellent driver.