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Garrett M. Graff
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc
Garrett M. Graff is editor-at-large at the Washingtonian Magazine, where he covers media and politics, edits the Capital Comment section and oversees the magazine's web operations. As the first blogger admitted to have cover a White House press briefing, he is a frequent speaker on blogging and cable news commentator on the intersection of politics and technology. Garrett's first book, "The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House", focusing on the 2008 presidential race and tracing the impact of technology, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in December 2007.
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Micah L. Sifry
http://micah.sifry.com
Micah L. Sifry is a co-founder and executive editor of the Personal Democracy Forum, which covers the ways technology, is changing politics. In addition to organizing the annual Personal Democracy Forum conference with his partner Andrew Rasiej, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. He is the author or editor of four books. He is also an adjunct professor at the Political Science Department of the City University of New York/Graduate Center.
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Om Malik
http://gigaom.com
Om Malik. is an Indian-American technology writer. In late 1994, he launched DesiParty.com, an events site for Indian emigrants. That same year, he co-founded the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA). In 1995 he helped launch the now-defunct magazine, Masala, and its website Masala.com, a South Asian portal. In 1997, Malik was on the original team at Forbes.com led by David Churbuck. In 2000, he moved to San Francisco to become a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine. In 2001, he started technology blog GigaOM of Giga Omni Media, Inc. and he is currently the executive editor of the blog.
GigaOM is a Web 2.0 blog started by Om Malik and published by GigaOmniMedia Inc. in San Francisco. The website has a monthly global audience of 500,000, is among the top 50 blogs worldwide by Technorati Rank, and is part of CNet's 100 Most Influential Blogs. GigaOM is ranked in the top 100 IT news sites by Internet tracking service, Hitwise.
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Kent Alan Nichols & Douglas Sarine
http://www.askaninja.com
Ask A Ninja is an award-winning series of comedy videos about the image of ninjas in popular culture, created by Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine. The series features 5 ninjas who answer e-mails from "viewers". Each episode usually ranges from two to three minutes. New episodes are usually released bi-weekly. Recently, Nichols and Sarine appeared as commentators on VH1's Best Week Ever and won the 2007 Webby Film & Video Awards Best Actor.
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Justin Kownacki
http://www.somethingtobedesired.com
Justin Kownacki is a freelance video producer and writer graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where he earned a degree in computer animation and multimedia. Kownacki is the creator, producer, director, writer and film editor of "Something To Be Desired," (STBD). STBD is one of the longest-running web series, online since 2003. It follows the lives, loves and very bad ideas of a group of struggling artists in Pittsburgh. Every Monday night, a new 10-minute episode is posted online. The series launched in 2003 and started its fourth season in September. There will be 40 episodes this season.
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Jessica Ann Coen
http://www.jessicacoen.com
Jessica Coen is the deputy online editor for Vanity Fair magazine and former editor of the influential weblog Gawker.com. She joined Gawker in late August 2004. The Michigan native graduated from the University of Michigan. Coen then worked as an executive assistant at a major television studio, where she eventually started her own blog. She also writes a personal weblog and freelances for print (for publications such as the New York Times, New York Observer and ELLE).
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Andrew Baron
http://www.rocketboom.com
Creator and producer of the popular video blog Rocketboom. Baron has a BA in philosophy and an MFA in technology and planning. He was a lecturer for undergraduate courses at Parsons in New York City and was also an instructor for technology courses at MIT.
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Joanne Colan
http://www.rocketboom.com
Leading presenter and a producer in the popular video blog Rocketboom. Colan,
originally from the UK, previously worked as a researcher, host, writer and producer
at BBC radio and television. She also worked on several MTv shows as a writer and
host, including: MTV News, Top 20 Countdown and MTV Movie Special.
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