John Patrick is President of Attitude LLC and former vice president of Internet technology at IBM, where he worked for thirty-five years. During his IBM career John helped start IBM's leasing business at IBM Credit Corporation, and was senior marketing executive for the launch of the IBM ThinkPad brand. Starting in the early 1990s, John dedicated his time to fostering Internet technologies. One of the leading Internet visionaries, John is quoted frequently in the global media and speaks at dozens of conferences around the world. Business 2.0 named him as one of the industry's most intriguing minds, Industry Week named him one of the top 30 people who drive innovation and provide the initial spark to economic growth, and Network World called him one of the 25 most powerful people in networking. John was a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994, a founding member and now the chairman of the Global Internet Project. He is a member of the board of directors of Jupiter media and Novel Corporation and has been an advisor to Interlinks, Neoteny, Space.com, and ThirdAge Media. He is also president of The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Foundation. His book, Net Attitude, was released in November 2001. Less   View all posts

Mena Trott is co-founder and President of Six Apart, the creators of the TypePad service and Movable Type software, two of the leading tools for publishing weblogs. In addition to her role leading the management and business efforts of Six Apart, Mena enjoys working on making the products aesthetically pleasing as well as functionally intuitive. When she's not developing Movable Type, she writes for her own weblog, dollarshort.org, contributed to "Essential Blogging", and publishes posts regularly on the Six Apart company weblog at sixapart.com. Less   View all posts