- Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", which has since been called the Great American Novel, and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Clemens became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists, and European royalty. - Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites. - Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. - 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, … - 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 - Vendela Vida
Vendela Vida (born September 6, 1972) is an American novelist, journalist, and editor who lives in San Francisco with her husband, writer Dave Eggers. She graduated from San Francisco University High School in her hometown before attending Middlebury College as an undergraduate. She received an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She has written three books, "Girls on the Verge", "And Now You Can Go", … - John Battelle
John Battelle , 42, is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor and author who has founded or co-founded scores of online, conference, magazine and other media businesses. Prior to founding Federated Media, Battelle co-founded and continues to serve as Executive Producer of the Web 2 Summit conference, as well as "band manager" with BoingBoing.net . - Anton Lavey
Anton Szandor LaVey, born Howard Stanton Levey (11 April, 1930 - 29 October, 1997) was the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan as well as a writer, occultist, musician, and actor. He is the author of "The Satanic Bible" and the founder of LaVeyan Satanism, a synthesized system of his understanding of human nature and the insights of philosophers who advocated materialism and individualism, … - Renee Blodgett
As President and Founder of Blodgett Communications, Renee Blodgett offers a very personalized approach of working with her clients, their customers and the influencers that impact them. She has been providing full service corporate communications, public relations and marketing consulting for worldwide technology companies and executives for nearly twenty years. - John Debney
John Debney (born Burbank, California, 18 August 1956) is an award-winning prolific American film composer who received an Oscar nomination for his score for Mel Gibson`s "The Passion of the Christ". - Stewart Edward White
Stewart Edward White was an American author. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan he earned degrees from University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1895; M.A., 1903). From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books. Starting in 1922, He and his wife Elizabeth "Betty" Grant White wrote numerous books they claimed were received through channelling with spirits. They also wrote of their travels around the state of California. White died in Hillsborough, California. - Mervyn Leroy
Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 - September 13, 1987) was an American film director, producer and sometime actor. - Patrick Califia
Patrick Califia (formerly known as Pat Califia; born 1954 near Corpus Christi, Texas) is a writer about women's sexuality and of erotic fiction, nonfiction essays, and poetry. Califia is a bisexual transman - Leland Orser
Leland Orser was born on September 10, 1960 in San Francisco, California. He graduated from Connecticut College with an art history degree. In addition to the United States, he has also spent time living in Europe, where he trained at the London Drama School. While studying there, he eloped to Rome with fellow student Roma Downey. They divorced two years later. - Maia Bittner
maia bittner is a young lady who worked at spock - Harry McCracken
Named Editor in Chief of PC World in March 2004, Harry McCracken oversees all editorial and design for PC World, PCWorld.com, and the PC World Test Center. His areas of expertise include the Internet, PC service and support, digital imaging, and other aspects of technology; his "Up Front" column opens each issue of the magazine. McCracken also authors PC World's Techlog, a Web log with news, opinions, and links on PCWorld.com. - George Kuchar
George Kuchar (born 31 August 1942, New York City) is an American film director, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic, playful use of no-talent actors, plotless plots, and themeless themes. Trained as a commercial artist in a vocational high school, the School of Industrial Art, he drew weather maps for a local news show. - Walter Catlett
Walter Catlett (February 4, 1889 - November 14, 1960) was an American actor. Catlett was born in San Francisco, California. He made a career out for himself playing excitable, officious blowhards. As a San Francisco citizen, he started out in vaudeville with a detour for a while in opera before breaking it out into films in the mid-1920s. Catlett also provided the voice of Foulfellow the Fox in the 1940 Disney animated film "Pinocchio". - 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. - Liam Mayclem
"live each bloody day to the fullest as if each was you last, and laugh and swing your pants along the way.". - Ethan Leib
Ethan J. Leib was born in New York City and was raised in The Bronx. He received his B.A., M.A., J.D., and Ph.D. from Yale University. He also got an M.Phil. from Cambridge University in England. During law school, he worked in the prison clinic and was an editor at the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. - Irene Mecchi
Irene Mecchi is an American writer for television, movies, newspapers, and Broadway. Originally from San Francisco, she started her work with Disney in March 1992, when she wrote Recycle Rex, an animated short film which won the 1994 Environmental Media Award. Irene has worked on Herb Caen's books and is a co-writer of Disney's movies such as "The Lion King", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", and "Hercules". - Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer, best known for his black and white photographs of the American West. Adams also authored numerous books about photography, including his trilogy of technical instruction manuals ("The Camera", "The Negative" and "The Print"); co-founded Group f/64 along with other masters like Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, and Imogen Cunningham; and created, with Fred Archer, the "zone system". - Buzz Belmondo
Buzz Belmondo is the stage name of actor, comedian, film maker, film producer and writer Lorenzo Matawaran. It is also a persona created by Matawaran from his days in improvisational and stand-up comedy. Born on February 20, in San Francisco, California of Luis and Effie Matawaran, a Filipino immigrant couple, he grew up in the North Beach Housing Projects not far from Fisherman's Wharf. - Gary Bolles
Gary A. Bolles ( gary@gbolles.com ) is a San Francisco-based entrepreneur, writer, and speaker. As a partner in Collective Intelligence, Bolles is responsible for helping to articulate the strategic vision of CI and its projects, devising technology solutions, coordinating project operations, and assisting with partner development and fund-raising. - Thomas Claburn
- Rafe Needleman
Rafe Needleman started his journalism career at InfoWorld in 1988, where he held the position of executive reviews editor. He went on to posts at ZD Labs , Corporate Computing , PC Computing, and Byte magazine, where he was editor in chief. He even worked at CNET.com in 1996, where, as editor, he helped establish CNET's credibility as a source for trusted reviews. During his time at CNET.com, he also wrote the "Browser Beat" column. - Scott Kurttila
I would tend to say that I'm a person with a huge appetite for life who has not yet begun to eat from the grand buffet which is laid out in front of us here on this planet. I'm cursed with the feeling that I have to do and see it all. my time here is but a blink in the universe. I try to be athletic, adventurous and creative while maintaining humility in all things. - Nick Douglas
i like to write at www.valleywag.com i am probably the best writer in the world. i like gossip stories. - Liz Gannes
- Dan Farber
Dan Farber at ZDNet covered LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman's keynote . - Edward Domain
- Mel Blanc
Voice specialist from radio, movies and TV rarely seen by his widespread audience. On 1940s radio, for example, his voice supplied the sound effects for the comedian Jack Benny's antique "Maxwell" automobile's gasping and wheezing and struggling to crank up. More widely recognised as the voice of virtually every major character in the Warner Bros. cartoon pantheon, including Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety & Sylvester both, Yosemite Sam et al. Since Blanc's death, his son Noel... - Chad Deverman
drinking with friends, writing behind closed doors, listening to jazz records on. - Adam Lashinsky
Adam Lashinsky is a senior writer at FORTUNE, where he started as a contributing columnist in 1999. He covers finance and Silicon Valley for the magazine. He also is a featured commentator for "Marketplace," the nationally broadcast radio business-news magazine, and a regular contributor to business-news programming on the Fox News Channel. - Michael V. Copeland
- Steve Romanko
Steve was raised in Taylor, Pennsylvania, the son of a letter carrier and a stay at home Mom. He graduated Marywood University in 1992 with a degree in Radio, Television and Film. In 1994 he moved to San Francisco. His five and a half years at Skywalker Sound led him to pursue goals in directing. Steve also designs Sound for Theater and is the recipient of the 2003 San Francisco best sound design in theater for his work in "Kilt". He resides in the city by the bay, with his wife, Kara... - Ryan Notch
Okay, where to begin? After graduating high school outside of Dallas, Texas I moved to Los Angeles to work in the film industry. Over the next seven or eight years I worked on many feature films, including the Matrix and Star Wars trilogies. I lived for several years in Hollywood, California... Manhattan, New York... North Carolina... and Sydney, Australia. I am now living in San Francisco and loving it. - Tomas Puig
Tomas Puig is the resident mastermind at Compressor Films and making amazing features and shorts is his passion. Traveling all over the world to India, Europe, Canada and other amazing locations Tomas has made compelling film from all genres. Starting with "The Last" Tomas has pushed the boundaries of what people have thought could be done with the amount of resources given and always bring high quality product to the table. Tomas' producing career actually started in music production... - Daisy Whitney
Daisy Whitney writes for a number of publications including TelevisionWeek, Advertising Age, Shape and Business 2.0. She has a specialty in the media industry and is currently TelevisionWeek's technology and emerging media reporter. Daisy also wrote for the Denver Post for six years, and has also written for Canada’s The Globe and Mail, Miami Herald, New Media Age, Extra Extra, Natural Health and Consumers Digest.
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