- 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.
- Tech Talk Radio
Tech Talk Radio has been airing on WTWP since February 2007. The show is broadcast live each Saturday morning from 9 to 10 AM. Tech Talk was previously broadcast on WMAL (January 2000 through August 2003) and WJFK-FM (November 2003 through January 2005). The show was not broadcast from February 2005 through January 2007.
- 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 .
- Joe Murphy
Joe Murphy (July 10, 1972 - April 1, 2007) was an American book reviewer, XM Radio Personality, and podcaster. His other profession was that of a speech pathologist and audiologist, having received his MA from Western Illinois University. He started out on the Dragon Page Cover to Cover podcast as a book reviewer. His comments were so concise and pithy that he quickly became a fan favorite.
- Scott Sigler
Scott Carl Sigler is a contemporary science fiction and horror writer and podcaster from Michigan. He resides in San Francisco, California with his wife and two dogs. Scott Sigler was featured in a New York Times article on March 1, 2007 by Andrew Adam Newman. praising him, Evo Terra, Mark Jeffrey and J.C. Hutchins for their innovation in the fields of podcasting, and more specifically, podcast novels.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mur Lafferty
Mur Lafferty (born July 25, 1973) is an American podcaster and writer based in Durham, North Carolina. She was, until recently, the host and co-editor of "Pseudopod". She is also the host and creator of the podcasts "Geek Fu Action Grip" (on hiatus) and "I Should be Writing".
- 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".
- John Edwards
Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10 1953), is an American politician who was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004 and a one-term U.S. Senator from North Carolina. On December 27 2006, he announced his entry into the 2008 Presidential election. Edwards was a trial lawyer before entering politics.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervais (born June 25, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. Gervais found mainstream fame with his BBC Two television programme "The Office" and the series Extras which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and collaborator, Stephen Merchant. Besides writing and directing the shows, Gervais also played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras.
- 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, …
- Anji Bee
Anji Bee is a vocalist/lyricist, podcaster, former college radio DJ, and music journalist from Los Angeles.
- 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).
- 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.
- Michael R. Mennenga
Michael R. Mennenga is an American podcaster and writer based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is co-host and engineer of the 2005 Podcast & New Media People's Choice Award winning podcast Slice of SciFi with Evo Terra. He is a founder of Farpoint Media, a company that supports a select group of science fiction podcasts. He is also a author of young adult fantasy, with several books written, but only two currently in print. Several of his shows are broadcast on XM Radio, …
- Molly Wood
Molly Wood (born May 23, 1975) is an executive editor at CNET.com and previously a writer for Associated Press, MacHome Journal magazine, and O'Reilly Media. Wood hosts Buzz Out Loud podcast with Tom Merritt and producer Veronica Belmont, and co-hosts the "Gadgettes" podcast with Kelly Morrison. She has an important role in both these podcasts. Wood also hosts video news show called "The Buzz Report" a technology video news column that is published late weekly, …
- 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.
- Tom Merritt
Tom Merritt (born June 28, 1970) in Greenville, Illinois is an Executive Editor for CNET and the developer and co-host of CNET networks' daily podcast Buzz Out Loud along with Molly Wood and Veronica Belmont. He is known as "The Segue King" for his renowned ability to craft clever transitions between news stories. He is also the author of CNET's "The Real Deal", a regular column & podcast dealing with consumer technology.
- Michael Butler
Michael Butler is a musician and podcaster from San Francisco, California, USA. He is well-known for his popular podcast, The Rock and Roll Geek Show, one of the earlier podcasts and a featured program on 'Podshow', a Podcasting start-up and Butler's employer since late 2005.
- Steve Eley
Steve Eley is an American speculative fiction author and podcaster. He edits and produces Escape Pod, a science fiction podcast, as well as producing Pseudopod, a horror podcast, both produced under a Creative Commons license by his company Escape Artists Inc. Eley lives in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1994-1995 Eley was one of a group of students who produced a manifesto about the Invisible Pink Unicorn on alt.atheism. Eley is usually credited as the primary author, …
- 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).
- Michael W. Dean
Michael W. Dean (born May 1964 in Westfield (NY)) is a filmmaker, novelist, non-fiction author, tech writer, musician and podcaster who lives in the Conejo Valley in Southern California.
- Brian Ibbott
Brian Ibbott is a podcaster who lives in Arvada, CO. His most notable podcast is Coverville, but he also podcasts for the Denver Post as well as co-hosting a podcast about the Wii video game console. Brian is also the Denver Podcasters Meetup coordinator.
- Adam Christianson
Adam Christianson is the host of The MacCast, a popular Podcast covering Apple Macintosh news and providing tips and help for Macintosh users. His Podcast provides the top Apple news and rumours. Adam Currently lives in San Diego, California. He worked as a .NET developer for Microsoft until he quit in order to start his own web design business. He is also a regular on the Mac Roundtable discussion podcast.
- 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
- Richard Vobes
Richard Vobes, also known as Vobes, is an entertainer, actor and professional podcaster who has produced over 500 shows since January 2005. His podcast, simply called VOBES (previously the "Richard Vobes Radio Show") is typically about 30 to 40 minutes in length and is broadcast from the 'beach hut' near his house in Worthing, West Sussex, England. His shows range from commentary on recent news events to Friday night beer reviews, …
- Sam Chupp
Sam Chupp is a tabletop game designer, the co-creator of the roleplaying games "Changeling:_The_Dreaming" and "Wraith:_the Oblivion". He also wrote the religious biblical verse in the best-selling art book called the "Book_of_Nod". He won an "Origins_Award" in 2003. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 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.
- Don McAllister
Don McAllister is a podcaster from Liverpool, UK. He is the host of the popular video podcast ScreenCastsOnline, a weekly program composed of video screencasts tutorials that cover different computer-related topics. He has appeared on Robert Scoble's Scoble Show and has been invited to speak at the 2007 Podcast & New Media Expo in Ontario, California. He was also a guest at Adam Christianson's Mac Podcaster Meetup at the 2007 Macworld Expo, …
- Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkington (born September 23, 1972 in Manchester) is an English, Sony Award-winning radio producer and personality best known for producing and co-presenting "The Ricky Gervais Show" on the radio station Xfm. On October 3, 2006, Pilkington's first book "The World of Karl Pilkington" was released, featuring original ideas and drawings by Karl, based upon the subject matter discussed in the podcasts. He is already in the process of writing his second book, …
- 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.
- Stephen Merchant
Stephen Merchant (born 24 November 1974 in Bristol) is an English Emmy, Golden Globe, British Comedy Award and BAFTA-award winning writer, director, and comedic actor. He is best known for his work with his friend Ricky Gervais in the popular British sitcoms "The Office" and "Extras", as well as "The Ricky Gervais Show" in its radio and podcast forms. Merchant is 6 feet 7 inches (2.00m) tall. He lives with his girlfriend in Hampstead, London.
- Ragan Fox
Ragan Cooper Fox (born May 9, 1976 in Houston, Texas) is a gay poet and performance artist who is an assistant professor of communication at California State University, Long Beach. He received a B.S. and an M.A. (2001) from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. (2006) from Arizona State University. He is the host of the podcast Fox and the City, which was heard weekly on Sirius Radio 103. Along with Fox and the City, he participated in Eat this Hot Show, …
- Ronald D. Moore
Ronald Dowl Moore (born 1964 in Chowchilla, California) is an American screenwriter and television producer who is known for his work on "Star Trek" and the re-imagined "Battlestar Galactica" television series, which he created and runs.
- 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.
- Richard Bluestein
Richard Bluestein (born March 30, 1967 in Evanston, Illinois) is a queer entertainer and underground Internet performance artist based in Chicago, Illinois. His most notorious persona is that of the "bloated, Jewish lesbian" Madge Weinstein of the groundbreaking indie podcast "Yeast Radio", which he writes and produces.