Web Cred... the players (L - Q)

Blogging, journalism, and credibility... this week's conference at Harvard will be blogged and webcast, and I understand there will be an IRC channel.  Those of us with an interest in the conversation will certainly have a chance to listen in.  This series of blog postings is aimed at helping those who attend (and I mean that in the broader sense, since physical attendance is limited) know a little more about who is talking and writing.  I'm attacking this in alpha order. Or really reverse-blog-alpha order.

... click here for participants whose last names begin with A and B.

... click here for participants whose last names begin with C through shining G.

... click here for participants whose last names begin with H through K.

I wish I could be there out front of the Harvard Law School hustling programs... "Getcher program... can't tell the bloggers without a prooo-grammm!"

<disclosure> The following WebCred Program information includes material from many sources, from Wikipedia and Googling around to focused use of the High Beam Executive Search, a service that's reasonably inexpensive but that I get free because I pestered CBO Chris Locke. </disclosure>

Carrie Lowe - Carrie Lowe is the Internet Policy Specialist in the American Library Association Office of Information Technology.  Just as a bow to the BloggerCons, I have to say that Carrie will benefit from contact with people like Jessica Baumgart, Patrick Delaney, Jenny Levine, or any of the many other librarians who blog.  Carrie doesn't appear to have a blog herself, but she is a writer and has edited or edits the Big6 eNews.

Chris Lydon -  Chris Lydon is a Berkman Fellow, an audio webcaster, a big fan of Ralph Waldo, and a perennial presence at Harvard Blogging Conferences.

I was doing some work with one of the top fifty business thinkers in the world in the main conference room at the American Academy of Arts when Chris came in with a Journalism professor and essentially booted us out of the room so he could do an audio interview with the guy.  Being an Emerson fan in Cambridge Mass. is a lot like being a Frank Lloyd Wright afficionado in Madison, Wis.  It's easy.  It's a cultural norm.  But Wright never had an erection without a leaky roof above it.  And don't get me started on Ralph.

Rebecca MacKinnon - a Berkman fellow, a world-beat (emphasis Asia) journalist, a blogger.  In the gender issues analysis of conference participation, Mackinnon ranks as a strong female player.

Cameron Marlow -  This from Cameron Marlow's blog:

I'm a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab studying various aspects of social networks and media contagion. You might be familiar with my project Blogdex which tracks diffusion in the weblog community.  If you're interested in my academic pursuits, I keep a much more static academic home.

Bill Mitchell - from the Western Knight Center speaker list:

Bill Mitchell has been editor of Poynter Online, a resource for journalists published by The Poynter Institute, since March 1999. Before that he worked as editor of Universal New Media and director of electronic publishing at the San Jose Mercury News. Previously he spent more than 15 years at the Detroit Free Press as reporter, editor, Washington correspondent, and European correspondent. He also served as Detroit bureau chief for Time magazine. Mitchell also was a Pulitzer juror in 2002 and 2003. He has served as consultant for Microsoft MSN, Universal Press Syndicate, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Catholic Reporter, and University of Notre Dame. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. in Theology.

Andrew Nachison - Andrew Nachison became director of The Media Center in June 2000. Previously he worked as Web editor and new media manager for the Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World, as a visiting assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Journalism, and as a reporter and editor for The Associated Press. He also founded Nach Media, a digital media consulting firm. Andrew first programmed with punchcards and the TRS-80; learned BASIC from John Kemeney; and has been using the Internet in one form or another since the mid-80s.

John Palfrey -   John is a blogger who graduated from Harvard College, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard Law School. His awards include the Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar to the University of Cambridge and the U.S. EPA Gold Medal (highest national award). John is admitted to the New York and Massachusetts bars.  As Executive Director of the Berkman Center, John Palfrey is responsible for working with the faculty directors to set and carry out the Center's ambitious, public-spirited agenda and overseeing the work of its crack team of staff, fellows and students.

Xiao Qiang -  A journalist whose primary medium is the weblog, Xiao Qiang sees blogs as instrumental in shifting power balances in China.

Yes, I'd love to be a newsie in massachoosy, hawking four color glossy copies of this program outside the doors of the Berkman Center!

Programs!  Can't play the tellers without a program!