Doug Bedell is Technology Writer for the Dallas Morning News online and print publications. His work, which appears weekly in DMN's Personal Technology section, is distributed nationally through Knight Ridder and Associated Press wire services. For eight years he has run TBone of Dallas for custom Web hosting, design, database and scripting freelance work. His personal site is www.dougbedell.com.

Judy Brown writes about business technology for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Monday Business section and is a contributor to eWEEK and other publications covering e-Learning. She also works with emerging technology for the University of Wisconsin System.

Theresa W. Carey joined the wonderful world of freelance writing on a dare in 1991, and hasn't looked back. She is now a contributing editor to Barron's and writes "The Electronic Investor" column, reviewing tools for investors and analyzing the wild world of online trading. She is also the editor of eWEEK.com's Finance Industry Site, http://finance.eweek.com, which keeps her in touch with the goings-on in financial technology. Theresa is the author of two books published by Dorling Kindersley in 2001: Essential Finance Guide to Investing Online and the Keep It Simple Series Guide to Online Investing. Her byline has popped up in Fortune Small Business, PC World, MSDN Magazine, Working Woman, and many other publications. When not puzzling over an article, Theresa enjoys playing and coaching volleyball and softball.

Alex Censor calls himself a journalist and consultant in Fallbrook California. His first hands-on computer-exposure occurred as a biophysics graduate student; he spent one summer working on the OS for the then-futuristic-ILLIAC-IV project at U of I, Urbana (the fictional home of HAL). In the late 70's he guiltily coughed up his savings for a useless hobby -- a TRS-80 Model III with 32K (yes, that's "32K" not "32MB") of RAM and two 180K floppy drives, and he stayed up nights getting it to do interesting things. Someone once paid him to help them make their computer do something useful and thus he became a computer consultant. About 10 years ago he discovered it was safer to write about configuration decisions, problems, and solutions that to actually be on the frontlines pressing the keys while the network locks up. For Alex, it's more fun to report on industry trends -- and, the rest, he likes to think, "is history"!

Steven Cherry is a senior associate editor at IEEE Spectrum, the member magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. He covers the Internet and telecommunications, and related issues in networking, digital media, intellectual property, and public policy. Before joining the IEEE staff, he served as executive editor of magazines at the Association for Computing Machinery, where he expanded interactions magazine and founded netWorker magazine. His writing has also appeared in such magazines as Internet Week, Computer Shopper, and Internet World. He is a frequent speaker at Comdex, the Intel Developer’s Forum, and other conference venues.

Daniel P. Dern is currently an independent technology writer, including "Care & Feeding" columnist at ComputerClick Magazine. He writes case histories, features, show reports, how-to's, and some product reviews and OpEds. Topics he covers include the Internet, its technologies, uses and people, as well as mobile/home office technology, self-employment/telecommuting, security, marketing & PR. His articles have appeared in publications and sites including ComputerClick Magazine, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, Network World, NewsForge, The O'Reilly Network and Smart Reseller, plus lots of magazines that don't seem to be around any more. Most recently Daniel was Executive Editor for Byte.com magazine.

Daniel wrote one of the first general-audience Internet books, THE INTERNET GUIDE FOR NEW USERS, and was founding editor of INTERNET WORLD magazine, and then an Internet columnist for numerous magazines. He's spoken at computer industry events including Comdex, Internet World and Interop, as well as at science fiction conventions, and been a radio show guest. ("Show biz is my life!" He also writes science fiction, humor, song parodies, and PR, and is an amateur magician.

See www.dern.com/artic.shtml for links to samples of his recent work, and www.dern.com for more info, including (in case you're an editor) a list of some of the topics he'd like to write (more) about.

Dennis Fowler lives in rural upstate New York with his ever patient and supportive wife and two cats. He has written about computers and the online world for a decade, appearing in Computer Shopper, PC Computing, Windows Sources, Knowledge Management Magazine and the Association for Computing Machinery's netWorker. He is a tenor and has sung in several choirs and with the Glimmerglass Opera Chorus in La Boheme. He can be reached via e-mail at fowler63@alumni.princeton.edu.

Matthew Friedman is the author, with Marlene Blanshay, of B2B Canada (Macmillan Canada, 2000) and Understanding B2B ( Dearborn Trade, 2001), which are basically the same book, except the former has more Canadian content. His first book, Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution (Vehicule Press, 1997), won a Quebec Writers Federation award. Friedman is a writer and columnist for Canada's eBusiness Journal and columnist for Computing Canada, though (like a typical freelancer), he has also written -- and periodically writes -- for such august publications as The National Post, Wired News, and a whole whack of others. He lectures in journalism at Concordia University in Montreal, and is often notable for his Canadian-ness.

Reid Goldsborough writes a syndicated column called "Personal Computing" that originates from the Philadelphia Inquirer. He's the author of the book Straight Talk About the Information Superhighway, and is a co-author of the 1994-2001 editions of the Consumer Guide book Computer Buying Guide. He also contributes articles about PCs and the Internet to PC World, Yahoo! Internet Life, and other consumer and trade publications. Basically, he's a writer who nerds. Reach him via email or his Web site.

On the startup team for Yahoo! Internet Life in 1995, Angela Gunn currently writes the Net Ethics column for the magazine. Her previous column, Kiss My ASCII, ran in the Seattle Weekly and associated newspapers and is currently on hiatus at www.agunn.com; her previous startup, MecklerMedia's WebWeek, is gone but not forgotten. She's covered the scene as a reporter and columnist for magazines including PC Magazine, Sam Whitmore's Media Survey, Internet Business, Computer Shopper, Byte, Internet World, and FactSheet Five. Her interests include Net censorship (against it), online privacy (for it), and geek cultural history (lives it).

David Joachim is senior managing editor of InternetWeek, a technology magazine published by CMP Media LLC. He is also a columnist for the Long Island Business News, a regional business newspaper. He has written extensively about the technology and business implications of the Internet since 1994. Previously, he was managing editor/news at Web Week (now Internet World) and an editor at Interactive Age, a CMP title. Before that, he was a staff writer at Newsday, a New York-area daily. He is a graduate of Stony Brook University. See his Web site here: http://www.geocities.com/david_joachim.

Dave Johnson writes about technology from his home in the Rocky Mountains. His freelance career started in the days of the Amiga and today he specializes in mobile, imaging, and small business technology. He's written for a large number of publications that are now suspiciously defunct, like Home Office Computing and Planet IT. He has also contributed to pubs that seem to hang on despite his involvement, like Information Week, Wired, and Handheld Computing.

Dave is the author of 15 books that include How to Use Digital Video and How to Do Everything with Your Palm Handheld. He has also written The Wild Cookie, which is now an interactive story on CD-ROM for young readers. When not writing, Dave spends his time scuba diving and photographing captive wolves.

Prior to writing, Dave had a somewhat unfocused career that included flying satellites, driving an ice cream truck, managing nuclear weapons at an Air Force base, stocking shelves at Quick Check, teaching rocket science, photographing rock bands, and writing about space penguins. He's still not playing bass in a psychedelic band, but it seems that he's found steady work. You can find him on the Web at www.bydavejohnson.com or reach him by email at dave@bydavejohnson.com.

Alan S. Kay is a formerly bicoastal business and technology journalist who's now firmly ensconced in the San Francisco Bay Area. A former newspaperman and technology magazine editor, Alan specializes in coverage of business issues, many of them technology-related. To pay the mortgage, he served until recently as editor in chief of Knowledge Management magazine, a business strategy and technology monthly. But he also stays connected to his consumer technology and Internet roots, contributing regularly to the Washington Post's Fast Forward section. You can reach him by email.

Larry Loeb has written for many of the last century's major "dead tree" computer magazines, having been -- among other things -- a Consulting Editor for BYTE magazine and Senior Editor for the launch of WebWeek. He's been online since uucp "bang" addressing (where the world existed relative to !decvax), serving as Editor of the Macintosh Exchange on BIX and the VARBusiness Exchange. He's also written a book on the Secure Electronic Transaction Internet protocol. Larry is currently the wireless columnist for www.ibm.com/developerworks and has a second book ("Hackproofing XML" from Syngress Press) out there. His first Mac had 128K of memory. His first 1130 had 4K, as did his first 1401. You can mail him at larryloeb@prodigy.net.

Robin "Roblimo" Miller is editor in chief for OSDN, one of the world's leading online tech news publishers. He has written extensively about computers and the Internet for Slashdot, NewsForge, Linux.com, Time New Media, Online Journalism Review, Web Hosting Magazine, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, and many other Web sites, newspapers, and magazines.

He is one of the creators of modern interactive journalism and has served as an Internet business consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and many Internet entrepreneurs. He is the author of "The Online Rules of Successful Companies" (Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2002), and is currently working on a book called "Point and Click Linux" (Addison-Wesley, should be on shelves late Fall, 2004).

Before becoming a full-time writer and editor, Miller operated a small limousine service in the Baltimore/Washington area and wrote freelance part-time. "I never intended to make writing and editing a full-time profession," he says. "It was purely accidental. There are many talented editors and writers out of work who could easily replace me."

Perhaps this is true, but we feel he is being too modest. Few journalists have covered Linux and Open Source as long or as deeply as Miller, and none have done more research on how software entrepreneurs can use Open Source and Free Software to build profitable businesses.

When speaking, Miller believes in complete interactivity. If you want to interrupt and ask him to focus more on a particular topic, he says, "Go right ahead. Dialogues are always better than monologues." He has spoken
to both small groups around conference tables and in large halls to as many as 2000 people, both directly in English and, through translators, to speakers of at least half a dozen other languages.

Lawrence Nyveen started using e-mail in 1988, but he didn't know what it was. CompuServe found its way onto his Mac LC in 1993. Six months later, he joined the nascent Netsurfer Digest as a writer, got so fed up with his editor/publisher that he also took on copy editing, and eventually found himself as editor. Lawrence grew up in Montreal, has B.A. in biology and anthropology from Rice University behind the couch, and did some grad work at Yale on dinosaurs. Besides editing NSD, Laurie takes care of his three kids, Elisabeth, Ilana, and Jacob; scares his dog; sends people around the world to virtual flaming deaths in WarBirds; and does some freelancey stuff.

Jason Perlow is Senior Technology Editor for Linux Magazine. In the past, his works have been featured in ZDNet, Sm@rt Partner, Smart Business for the New Economy, Maximum Linux, Handheld PC and PalmPower.com. To finance the cost of his never-ending DVD collection and his taste for electronic gadgets, he runs his own integration firm, Argonaut Systems, and is the founder of eGullet.com, a food news and discussion web site. He lives in the New Jersey suburbs of New York City with his wife Rachel and two poodles, Truffle and Bailey.

Chris Preimesberger is Editorial Director of IT Manager's Journal, part of the Open Source Technology Group network of news and information sites. In 2000, he founded the Java and Open Source Zones at DevX.com, a leading portal for the information technology business. He has been a contributing writer for C/Net Networks' Builder.com and the wireless industry analyst for Evans Data Corp., of Santa Cruz, Calif. He has written for a number of print and online publications, including the Los Angeles Daily News, San Jose Mercury News, the Orlando Sentinel, PlanetIT, Handheld Computing, and Dotcom.com. In earlier editions, he was managing editor of Software Development magazine (CMP Media), an editor/columnist at the Peninsula Times Tribune (Palo Alto, Calif.), and editor-in-chief of the Cupertino (Calif.) Courier. He has been a sports correspondent for The Associated Press since 1983 and has served as press box announcer or statistician for Stanford University football since that same year.

Chris also is a musician. He has sung and acted in such community musical productions as "Godspell," "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," "The Music Man," and "Smoke on the Mountain." His favorite musical role was as a School Board member (barbershop quartet) in "The Music Man"; he's a baritone. He counts among his mentors the great Adela Rogers St. Johns and the incomparable, Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist, Jim Murray--both of whom are now playing at the next level.

He and his wife, Becky, reside in Redwood City, Calif., and have four children: Ryan, Courtney, Megan and Andrew.

Wayne Rash is Managing Editor/Technology for InternetWeek, a publication of CMP Media, Inc. He is the author of Politics on the Nets (W.H. Freeman, 1997) and an editor for technology supplements in The Washington Post. Rash writes the weekly column "Rash's Judgment," as well as the column "Anything Rash" in The Star Ledger. He is a frequent contributor to a variety of publications and an Exchange Editor on BIX. You can reach him at wrash@mindspring.com, and you can read his stuff on the Web at http://www.internetwk.com.

Rebecca Rohan, AKA "Little Web Writing Hood," has been writing about computer hardware and software for national magazines since 1988, and the online world since 1989. Her credits include Computer Shopper, Windows Magazine, NetGuide, Internet World, Linux Magazine, PC Computing, Entrepreneur, Web Week, Home Office Computing, Planet IT, Multimedia World, SD Times, Publish, Sm@rt Reseller/Sm@rt Partner, Web Developer, Windows CE Tech Journal, Internet Week, ZDNet, The Washington Post, and Small Business Computing. She is author of Building Better Web Pages. Visit Rohan's writing credits page at The Bit Cave^TM for more information about her work, direct links to some of her articles at magazine sites, and her e-mail address.

Dan Rosenbaum, the former editor of NetGuide Magazine, is editor-in-chief of 3Ships Communications, an editorial consultancy covering technology and the online world. He's a well-known commentator about technology, appearing weekly on the CNNfn network's "Biz Buzz" program. Before joining NetGuide, Rosenbaum was senior editor of Computer Shopper, editor of PC Sources, and editor of Mobile Office. He started his career at United Press International, where he covered stories including the first US achievement of fusion power, AT&T's divestiture of its local phone companies, and the return of 52 American hostages from Iran. He's been online at one address or another since 1983.

By day, Richard Santalesa is a cutting-edge technology consultant, writer and editor; by night he's a first year law student. On the edit side, Rich has held the positions of executive editor of NetGuide, editor in chief of Windows User, and technical editor of Computer Shopper. Along the way he also was the founding editor of PDA & Wireless World, and has penned columns for Emedia Weekly (formerly MacWeek), Smart Reseller Magazine (now Smart Partner Magazine), WebWeek (now Internet World), Telecommute, PC Pro UK, ZDNet's Enterprise Channel (covering wireless issues), NetGuide, Windows User and Computer Shopper. His byline has appeared in: The NY Times, PC Magazine, Wired, Digital Media, Windows Magazine, Windows Pro, IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Database, Maxim, Small Business Computing, Home Office Computing, HomePC, MacAddict, and a bunch of other publications he can't remember offhand. In what little spare time there is, Rich publishes [on occasion] RichNet, a NYC-centric newsletter now in its sixth year, which is read by over 4,000 ex-New Yorkers around the world and a good slice of the computing industry. Believing his life isn't sufficiently complicated, Rich just finished his first semester at St. John's School of Law. Why law? Simple. The future of technology will be guided as much by the courts as by engineers and developers, and a good journalist first and foremost must understand the subject matter at hand. His personal web site is at http://www.richnet.org.

Stephen Satchell, one of the founders of the IPG, is a freelance writer for a number of magazines and web sites. You can email him here. He has split information about himself across two web pages, a professional page and a more personal page. OK, so he wrote a book, too. Like most of his neighbors in Incline Village, NV, Satchell wears quite a number of hats: writer, software developer, part-time sysadmin for an ISP, office machine handyman, firewall installer for businesses around town, ...and for something different, a security guard where he sits in empty buildings and occupied college dorms, and for 50 minutes per hour writes code and articles on his laptop.

Kevin Savetz has been a freelance computer technology writer for a decade. He is a regular contributor to Computer Shopper, the Washington Post, Computer Power User, and other publications. His first computer love was the Atari 800 -- Kevin has created too many Web sites (www.atarimagazines.com) devoted to that obsolete platform.

Esther Schindler has been a professional journalist since 1992. Currently, she is an editor at InformIT.com, as well as senior analyst for Evans Data Corp. and contributing editor at Software Development Times. She's also a frequent contributor to the ACM netWorker and Inside the Internet, and has written white papers, e-learning course, and way too many E-mail newsletters. Schindler has held staff jobs at InformationWeek, PlanetIT.com, and Sm@rt Reseller, has had her hand in more than a dozen computer books, has been an online community manager since 1990, and lost count of her articles after she wrote the 600th one.

Esther lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband and two cats. You can reach her at esther@bitranch.com.

Lee Schlesinger is executive editor for the Open Source Technology Group, with editorial responsibility for NewsForge.com, Linux.com, and ITManagersJournal.com. He is the former executive editor of ZDNet's Business & Technology pages. While at ZDnet his columns appeared regularly on Anchordesk.com. He spent five years as test center director at Network World, and worked as a product reviews editor on the original staff of Network Computing and at Digital Review. Lee is based in Sarasota, Fla.

Karen G. Schneider has published nearly 100 articles related to technology and library science, many as the "Internet Librarian" columnist for American Libraries from 1995-2002. She now publishes irregularly in Library Journal and American Libraries. She has also published two books, most notably A Practical Guide to Internet Filters (Neal Schuman, 1997), which in 1998 led her to be called as an expert witness for the community group Mainstream Loudoun in the First Amendment case, Mainstream Loudoun vs. Board of Trustees. Schneider's article, "The Tao of Internet Costs," was selected for the 1999 Award of Excellence by the library finance journal, The Bottom Line. Her "day job" is Director and Editor in Chief for Librarians' Index to the Internet, a selective Web portal targeted at public librarians and library users.

Evan Schuman is Editor-in-Chief/VP of Triangle Publishing Services Co. Inc., a content provider that works in Web, print and multimedia. Before selling out to Triangle, he ran his own tiny editorial services outfit (www.evanschuman.com) for a year. And before that, he spent 11 years in various editorial roles at CMP Media, including News Editor at TechWeb, News Editor at InformationWeek, Managing Editor/News at Open Systems Today (initially known as Unix Today), Editor-at-Large at CommunicationsWeek (which became InternetWeek), Editor of The Internet Business Report and Editorial Director for a supplement group. Earlier, he tried faking legitimacy, reporting for various daily newspaper (including The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and USA Today), wire services (the usual suspects: Associated Press, United Press International and Reuters)and radio networks (the boring ones: National Public Radio, CBS Radio News, ABC Radio News, NBC Radio News, Mutual Broadcasting, CNN Radio, CBC [Canada] and even lesser-known and cheaper networks). He can be harassed at eschuman@triangle-publishing.com.
(This picture is of Evan Schuman's daughter. It's the only photo he'd let us have. Suffice it to say, it was a wise choice.)

Mark Shander is an Internet broadcast and media pioneer. In the early-to-mid-90's, Shander simulcast his Phoenix radio programs live on the Internet, using what is now TheGlobe.Com's "Happy Puppy Games" as the flagship Site. He also syndicated archives of the shows and made them available to stream on-demand at several dozen highly-trafficked entertainment Sites. The show was heard by 50-55,000 listeners each week. Shander's experience in broadcasting, computing and communications began at age 8, when his mother routinely took the neighborhood kids to the local TV station to fill out the studio audience for tapings of "The Bozo Show". Shander quickly learned camera composition, videotape editing and backtiming, could explain what "sync" signals were for, and knew what frequency NTSC's color burst subcarrier resides on. He taught at broadcast schools, designed multi-track studios and wrote curriculum. He helped put Arizona's first Low Power TV station on the air, syndicating 8 hours of programming per day to a cable TV network for a national audience. He worked at a number of Arizona broadcast stations, including 5 years at the Phoenix ABC-TV affiliate, assisting in setting up a local news department for the station and producing, editing video and mixing audio for the newscast. He ran The Broadcaster's BBS, a free local and national reporter telecommunications resource, for 11 years. He is the former editor of The Arizona Technology Council Newsletter. He was also Contributing Editor at The Radio Times, a broadcast and streaming media industry trade publication and wrote for Computer Buyer Magazine. He currently writes for Radio Guide, a broadcast industry trade publication, and hosts weekly radio shows highlighting business and technolgy as well as lifestyle programming for people with a disability.

Shander is currently a Business Account Executive at Verizon Wireless, following almost 3 years of working with the wireless business data solutions team there under a relationship developed for his former employer. He is former Vice President of the Grand Canyon Chapter of AIIM International. He is currently a member of The Internet Press Guild and is Managing Editor at IPG's Web Site. He moderates the American Broadcasting and Streaming Media group. Having promoted two very popular computer/video game franchises, he is called on by local and national TV, radio and print media to comment in stories on issues relating to entertainment technology, and has appeared on CNN and in the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Visit his Website at www.shander.com.

David Strom has been involved in technology editorial management for more than a decade and is one of the leading experts on network and Internet Technologies. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for Tom's Hardware Guides, one of the most popular Web sites for computer hardware reviews. He has written extensively on various computing topics for over 18 years for a wide variety of publications, including holding various editorial management positions at CMP and Ziff-Davis. At Tom's Hardware he is responsible for managing a technical staff of five full-time writers and several freelancers who produce a series of technical Web properties, newsletters, and other content. He was the founding editor-in-chief for Network Computing magazine and the executive editor for PC Week (now called --unfortunately -- eWeek), along with creating and running a series of Web sites for the electronics industry for CMP called DesignLines. In between editorial positions for CMP, he ran a successful consulting and freelance writing business for ten years. He is also the
author of two books, neither of which did very well in the marketplace but both were fun to write.

Anne Stuart is a senior writer at Inc. magazine, where she covers the Internet and technology for an audience of small-business CEOs and oversees the annual Inc. Web Awards. She's particularly interested in e-commerce, wireless applications, and distance learning. From 1993-1999, Anne was a writer and editor at CIO, which covers the business side of technology. There, she helped launch two Web-related spinoffs, WebMaster and Web Business, contributed content to CIO, oversaw the Web Business 50/50 awards, and served as an interviewer on CNBC-TV's "Technology Edge." Previously, Anne was a writer and editor at several daily newspapers and The Associated Press. She has also been a full-time and part-time freelancer, taught writing workshops online and in person, and spoken widely on journalism and technology. Home page, writing samples, and an extensive resource list: http://www.annestuartonline.com. E-mail: annestuart@earthlink.net.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is a freelance writer and editor in chief of Practical Technology (http://www.practical-tech.com), the JavaWatch columnist for SD Times and the end of the book columnist for Linux Magazine. Formerly, he helped launch Sm@rt Partner,.where he was editor at large, WebWeek (Now Internet World), where he was a columnist and Inter@ctive Week, where he was online editor. Since 1988 most of his time has been spent freelance writing about business and technology for magazines such as Byte, PC Magazine, PC Week, Computer Shopper, IEEE Computer, and ACM NetWorker and newspapers like The Washington Post. Before he discovered that writing was more fun than programming, he was a programmer and a network administrator for NASA and the Department of Defense. Steven is also a well-known public speaker who has spoken at Comdex, Networld+Interop, Seybold and numerous other technology trade shows. He's also currently the chairman of the Internet Press Guild.

John Woram wandered out of the sound recording industry and into computers and decided to stick around. By methods that are still not entirely clear, he persuaded various publishers to actually print a half-dozen of his books—the last two about the Windows Registry. He was—until the magazine went out of print—Consulting Editor at Windows Magazine where he wrote the monthly “Optimize Windows” column. To avoid seeking regular employment, he maintains two web sites: www.woram.com and www.galapagos.to, one of which has absolutely nothing to do with computing.

Alan Zeichick is editor-in-chief and co-founder of BZ Media's SD Times. He is also president and principal analyst of Camden Associates, a consulting and tech research company. If that weren't enough, he's also a contributing editor to The Red Herring, and a regular contributor to quite a few publications, both in print and on the Web, as well as serving as a frequent speaking on software development, networking, and information-security topics. From 1990-1998, Alan toiled as an Editorial Director at Miller Freeman in San Francisco; previously, he selflessly slaved away at IDG Communications in Peterborough, N.H. Before becoming a technology journalist/analyst, he worked as a mainframe systems analyst. Alan works 24 hours a day, seven days per week, helping people apply information technology to improve their everyday lives. You can contact him at zeichick@camdenassociates.com or alan@bzmedia.com.