- Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of "Wired Magazine", which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He coined the phrase "The Long Tail" in an acclaimed Wired article, which he expanded upon in the book "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More" (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and four young children. Before joining "Wired" in 2001, he worked at "The Economist", … - Dave Winer
Dave Winer , 39, has been a commercial software developer, marketer and software demoer since 1979. Winer pioneered the category of outline processing, shipping ThinkTank for the IBM PC, Apple II and Macintosh in 1983 and 1984; Ready for the IBM PC in 1985 and MORE for Macintosh in 1986. MORE won MacUser's first Product of the Year Eddy in 1986. He founded and was president of Living Videotext, Inc., which merged with Symantec in 1987. - Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. He is currently editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets 1 million visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review , a journal of unorthodox technical news. - Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an adjunct professor at New York University's (NYU) graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. - Chris Kohler
Chris Kohler is a video game journalist and editor who has written for several publications in the past decade, including "Wired", "Animerica", "Official Nintendo Magazine" and "1UP.com". He is also a published author of two books. His first book, "Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life", was published by Brady Games on 2004-09-14. - Danah Boyd
Danah Michele Boyd (born 1977), also known as danah boyd, is an American academic, researcher, and blogger best known for media appearances where she speaks about social networking sites such as Friendster and MySpace. Since 2003, she and her research have been quoted on the subject of social networking in dozens of different articles in media sources such as NPR, Wired, MSNBC, "USA Today", and "The O'Reilly Factor".. - James Surowiecki
James Michael Surowiecki is an American journalist. He is staff writer at "The New Yorker", where he writes a regular column on business and finance called "The Financial Page". Surowiecki's writing has appeared in a wide range of publications, including "The New York Times", the "Wall Street Journal", "Artforum", "Wired", and "Slate". - Xeni Jardin
Xeni Jardin (born August 5 1972) is a journalist and weblogger in the United States. She is known for her position as co-editor of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing; as a contributor to "Wired" and "Wired News", and as a correspondent for the National Public Radio show "Day to Day". She has also worked as a guest technology news commentator for television networks such as CNN, Fox News and ABC. - Kim Zetter
Kim Zetter is an American freelance journalist in Oakland, California. She has written on a wide variety of subjects from the Kabbalah to dining out in San Francisco to Israel to cryptography and electronic voting, and her work has been published in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the "Los Angeles Times", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Jerusalem Post", "San Jose Mercury News", "Detroit Free Press", … - Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman is a freelance journalist who edits Wi-Fi Networking News, a widely cited early news blog that covers wireless data networking. Fleishman founded one of the earliest Web development firms, Point of Presence Company, worked at Amazon.com from 1996 to 1997, and runs isbn.nu, a book price comparison service. Fleishman has a degree in art (graphic design) from Yale College, Yale University (1990), … - Paul Boutin
Paul Boutin (born 1961 in Lewiston, Maine, United States) is a magazine writer and editor who writes about technology in a pop-culture context. He is currently Wired's managing editor for blogs. Boutin has also written regularly for "Slate" and "Valleywag". He is a contributing editor to "Wired" magazine, and most recently a book reviewer for the "Wall Street Journal". In the past his work has appeared in the "New York Times", … - Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz (born 1969) is an American journalist who covers the cultural impact of science and technology, such as topics on open source software and hacker subcultures. She has written for many periodicals from "Popular Science" to "Wired", and since 1999 has had a syndicated weekly column called "Techsploitation". From 2004-2005 she was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. - Mark Frauenfelder
Mark Frauenfelder (mark@well.com) is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles. He co-founded bOING bOING magazine, and was the founding editor-in-chief of Wired Online. He was also an editor at Wired magazine and Wired books from 1993-1998. He writes a monthly column for Playboy called "Living Online," about the Internet. - Anne Thompson
Anne Thompson is a film columnist at Variety and deputy editor of Variety.com, where she writes the Thompson on Hollywood blog. Born and raised in New York City, she’s a contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, London Observer and Wired. She served as the Deputy Film Editor at The Hollywood Reporter from January, 2005 to March, 2007 and before that was the West Coast Editor of Premiere, from 1996 to 2002. - Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is well-known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and the "global village". - Danny O'Brien
Danny O'Brien is the International Outreach Coordinator for the EFF. He works to help us collaborate with organizations and individuals fighting for liberties across the world. Danny has documented and fought for digital rights in the UK for over a decade, where he also assisted in building tools of open democracy like Fax Your MP . - Daniel Terdiman
Daniel Terdiman is a journalist, who has been published in both print and non-print media, including "Time Magazine, The New York Times, Wired Magazine, CNET News.com, Wired News, Martha Stewart Weddings, Salon.com, Business 2.0", and the "San Francisco Chronicle". He writes about a wide range of subjects from hi-tech to the web to sports. He has also made speaking appearances at hi-tech conferences as an expert on electronic game development, … - Steven Levy
Steven Levy (born 1951) is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy. Levy is chief technology writer and a senior editor for "Newsweek", writing mainly in the "Science & Technology" section. He also writes the column "Random Access" in the monthly feature "Focus On Technology." Levy is also a contributor to "Wired", and has had articles published on "Harper's", … - Julian Dibbell
Julian Dibbell is a technology journalist with a particular interest in social systems within online communities. His 1993 article "A Rape in Cyberspace" detailed attempts of LambdaMOO, an online community to deal with lawbreaking in its midst. The article was later included in Dibbell's book, "My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World". Additionally, Dibblell has chronicled the evolution of online worlds for "Wired" Magazine, … - Regina Lynn
Regina Lynn (born on May 17, 1971) is a blogger, author, and sex-tech expert. She has a daily blog on "Wired" called Sex Drive Daily, in addition to a weekly column with "Wired" called Sex Drive with Regina Lynn, which comes out every Friday. "Marie Claire" named her one of the top five leading sex experts. Lynn discusses the convergence of sex and technology, touching on subjects ranging from teledildonics to online dating. - Wayne Madsen
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist, author, and syndicated columnist. His articles have appeared in "The Village Voice" and "Wired". Madsen was a Senior Fellow of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He was a communications security analyst with the National Security Agency in the 1980s, and an intelligence officer in the US Navy. He has testified on numerous occasions before the US Congress. - Spencer Reiss
Spencer Reiss (born New York 1952) is a former Newsweek foreign correspondent, now a contributing editor at Wired magazine. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia University, he lives in Salisbury, Connecticut USA. - Paul Saffo
Paul Saffo (born in 1954 in Los Angeles) is a technology forecaster. He is the Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. He is also a board member of the Long Now Foundation. He has degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University. Saffo is frequently quoted in leading publications on issues ranging from high technology to global lifestyles. - Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz is a writer, web developer, and entrepreneur. At age 14 he was a co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification. Since then he has become a member of the W3C’s RDF Core Working Group, co-designed the formatting language Markdown with John Gruber, and has been involved in many other projects. Aaron was the founder of Infogami, a startup that was part of Y Combinator’s first Summer Founders Program. Previously, he attended Stanford University for a year, … - John Hodgman
John Kellogg Hodgman (born June 1971) is an American author and humorist who is best known for his personification of a PC in Apple's "Get a Mac" advertising campaign and his correspondent work on Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart". His written work has been published in "The Paris Review", "The New York Times Magazine", "Wired" and "McSweeney's Quarterly Concern". - Jessamyn West
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. - Louis Rossetto
Louis Rossetto (born 1949) is an American journalist. He is best known as the founder and former publisher of "Wired magazine". Rossetto was born and grew up on Long Island, New York. He went to Columbia University as an undergraduate and later returned for an MBA. In the early 1970s, he wrote a novel called "Takeover." Several years later, he ghostwrote a book about the making of the film "Caligula" called "Ultimate Porno". - Mark Dery
Mark Dery (born 1959) is an American author, lecturer and cultural critic. He writes about "media, the visual landscape, fringe trends, and unpopular culture" and teaches media criticism and literary journalism in the Department of Journalism at New York University. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Lingua Franca, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Spin, Wired, Salon.com, Cabinet, and others. - Katie Hafner
Katie Hafner is a journalist who writes books and articles about technology. She is a technology reporter at "The New York Times" and contributing editor for "Newsweek". She has worked at "Business Week", and has written for "Esquire", "Wired", "The New Republic" and "The New York Times Magazine". She lives with her family in Marin County, California. - Mark Anderson
Mark Anderson (born August 13, 1967) is a journalist and author based in western Massachusetts. He has written for "Harper's", "The Boston Globe", "Wired", "Science," and the "Rolling Stone" and is a regular contributor to "New Scientist" and "Wired News". He is a proponent of the "Oxfordian" theory, that the Elizabethan court poet-playwright Edward de Vere, … - Gregg Easterbrook
Gregg Edmund Easterbrook is an American writer who is a senior editor of "The New Republic". His articles have appeared in "Slate", "The Atlantic Monthly", "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "The Los Angeles Times", "Wired", and Beliefnet. In addition, he is a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C. think tank. - Gareth Branwyn
Gareth Branwyn is a writer, editor, and media critic. He covers technology and cyberculture for "Wired", "Make", "Esquire", the "Baltimore Sun" and other publications. He has also been an editor at "Mondo 2000" and "Boing Boing" (when it was a print zine), founded the personal tech site, Street Tech, where he is self-described "Cyborg-in-Chief", and is a member of the technical advisory board to "Make". - Josh Quittner
Joshua Quittner is an American journalist. He is currently editor of "Business 2.0", which he joined in April 2002 after seven years at Time Inc. where he served as technology editor for "Time Magazine" and its technology supplement "Time Digital" (later called "ON Magazine"). While a newspaper reporter at "Newsday" in the early 1990s, Quittner freelanced for "Wired Magazine" and was the original domain-name holder of mcdonalds.com, … - Andy Kessler
Andy Kessler (born 1958) is an author of books on business, technology, and the health field and has also contributed to "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times", "Wired", "Forbes", "The Weekly Standard", the "Los Angeles Times", and "The American Spectator". He was Co-founder and President of Velocity Capital Management, where he famously turned US$100 million into US$1 billion between 1996 and 2001. - Walter Mossberg
Walter S. Mossberg (born March 27 1947) is the principal technology columnist for the "Wall Street Journal". His "Personal Technology" column has appeared every Thursday since 1991. He also writes the "Mossberg Solution" column each Wednesday (co-authored with his assistant, Katherine Boehret), and the "Mossberg's Mailbox" column on Thursdays. - R. U. Sirius
R. U. Sirius (born Ken Goffman) is an American writer, musician, and cyberculture icon best known as co-founder and original Editor-In-Chief of "Mondo 2000". Sirius was also chairman and candidate in the 2000 U.S. presidential election for The Revolution Party. The party's 20-point platform comprised a hybrid of libertarianism, environmentalism and social liberalism. At one time, he was a regular columnist for "Wired News", "21C", … - Po Bronson
Po Bronson (b. in 1964) is an American journalist and author who lives in San Francisco. Born in Seattle, Washington, as Philip Bronson, he has gone by the nickname "Po" since he was 14 months old. After attending Lakeside School in Seattle, Bronson graduated from Stanford University and briefly worked as an assistant-bond-salesman in San Francisco. - Kieron Gillen
Kieron Gillen is a British computer games and music journalist, as well as a comic book author, who has worked for a lengthy list of publications, including "PC Gamer UK", "The Escapist", "Amiga Power", "Wired", "The Guardian" newspaper (where he wrote the first long-form videogame review in a mainstream newspaper), "Edge", "Games Developer", "Develop", "MCV", "Gamesmaster" and "PC Format", … - Larry Brilliant
Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Brilliant is a medical doctor, epidemiologist, technologist, author and philanthropist. Born in Detroit, Michigan (May 5, 1944), he received his undergraduate training as well as his MPH (Masters in Public Health) from the University of Michigan and his M.D. from Wayne State University. He moved to California for his internship at the Pacific Medical Center, and developed thyroid cancer from which he recovered. - Paul Davidson
Paul Davidson is an American screenwriter, author and television producer who was born in Smithtown, New York. Following a move with his family to San Francisco in 1981 he went on to attend college at the University of California, Irvine in 1989. It was after moving to Los Angeles, California in 1995 and working in film production at a variety of film companies like New Line Cinema and the Jim Henson Company that he began writing full-time.
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