The many faces of WordPress.

Introducing Attendees 101 - 150 (yes 50 at a time)

by Patrick Havens

No I’m not speeding up, I’ve just become more brief, and am trying to get everyone.


Attendee #101 is Michael Dorausch, is the admin behind Planet Chiropractic and the Planet Chiropractic blog.


Attendee #102 is Nick Topolos, didn’t give an actual URL.


Attendee #103 is Ben Wells, is currently the silent partner in Warwell Industries. His experience in advertising and marketing began in the internet boom of 1998. Ben now works full time on attorney websites, both in English and Spanish, under his company Marketing For Attorneys.


Attendee #104 is Nicole Hamaker, wife of a Navy Sailer station in Sicily (according to blog), writes recipes and talks up her upcoming cookbook.


Attendee #105 is Chris Heuer, Has a large and extensive bio, but here it is in a nutshell. Chris Heuer has over 12 years of entrepreneurial Internet experience and 16+ years of marketing experience, having previously taught classes at Miami Ad School in Web design, multimedia and convergence marketing. Since 2005 when Chris created the Web2.1 unconference as an alternative to the O’Reilly Web 2.0 conference. This effort has resulted n the launch of BrainJams as a non-profit with the intention of bringing together leaders from non-profits, business, government and technology for the purpose of ad-hoc collaboration and cross-boundary knowledge sharing.


Attendee #106 is Richard Munden, a seeming Jack-of-all-trades he states  on his personal blog, “Although I am not an expert on any of the topics I bring up here, I do have over a half century of observation and thought to guide my opinions.”


Attendee #107 is Robert Parker, gave the WordPress Blog signup…


Attendee #108 is heather vescent, runs The Purple Tornado, a consulting company focusing on Audience Engagement, Product Strategy and Social Media Marketing, and works with “an amazing team of collaborators.”


Attendee #109 is Robin Patronik’s site was currently not responding… ie. dead.


Attendee #110 is Shabd Vaid is perhaps an employee of the company, Responsys.  Also perhaps a blogger for whatsbuzzing.


Attendee #111 is Jason Gohlke, who according to his blog has “a nice niche there right now, maintaining and designing the website, writing and sending out the e-newsletter, and doing varied other design and writing tasks.”


Attendee #112 is Bob Beaty, needs a blog, or at least a URL.


Attendee #113 is Enrique Gutierrez, is a photographer, and if he designed his site… a pretty decent designer.


Attendee #114 is Liz Henry, of Other Magazine.


Attendee #115 is Jon Silvers from Berkley and does marketing in San Francisco.


Attendee #116 is David Lin, is a University of California, Berkeley, graduate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and currently serves as a hardware editor for Phoronix.


Attendee #117 is Theo Armour, perhaps needs a blog…


Attendee #118 is Declan Fleming’s site must of been under a large load, it hadn’t loaded after 15 minutes…


Attendee #119 is Tom Ballantyne, A DJ for a Live365 Station called Chakra Chip Cookies, he’s been railing about the recent changes suggested in congress.


Attendee #120 is Judy Larkins of Colorado Mediators & Arbitrators.


Attendee #121 is Mike Pilley needs a blog.

Attendee #122 is Tom Ransom is CTO and VP of Marketing for Corefino, a company that works in outsourcing Accounting and Organization.


Attendee #123 is Mike Melanson, does a lot of multimedia technology hacking, and has an entire website dedicated to this pursuit.


Attendee #124 is Daniel Brusilovsky is a High School Student and podcaster.

Attendee #125 is Michael Barbarino is yet another person who needs a blog.


Attendee #126 is Rickey Yaneza is a blogger and computer tech from New York City.


Attendee #127 is Rafael Ebron is founder and General Manager for Browser Garage LLC.  Prior to Browser Garage, Rafael was a founding employee of the Mozilla Corporation and helped to build the Firefox web browser driving the business, product, and marketing strategy.


Attendee #128 is Bart Szyszka works at a graphics design studio, which means his sites probably updated only a hair more then mine.


Attendee #129 is Betty Walker has a private blog, so we’ll keep her info private.


Attendee #130 is Paul Burd is a multimedia designer living in San Francisco, California.


Attendee #131 is Steven Miyakawa is one of the bloggers of unclemurdles.


Attendee #132 is Jessi Hance works at a mom-and-pop Internet shop and she’s addicted to music and the Internet.


Attendee #133 is Westianne Haughey runs a very celtic influenced blog.


Attendee #134 is Diana Bolanos works for a Marketin/Design firm in Santa Cruz.

Attendee #135 is Kevin Barrow is a very acomplished web developer and writer for numerous newspapers.


Attendee #136 is Jessie Stricchiola writes for a blog called the Alchemy of Search.


Attendee #137 is Mike Goldman is a cannibis activist and very prolific blogger.

Attendee #138 is Eric Olson works in Partner Development for Google and am also one half the founding duo of TECH cocktail.


Attendee #139 is Doug Bird just started a new blog on how to handle numerous servers at once.  A promising idea, once he posts more.


Attendee #140 is Chuck Soper of SF/Mac indie. An event is for independent developers and small companies to connect and network at the beginning of the WWDC week.


Attendee #141 is Jason Deadrich is a Wrestling afficiando who writes on a blog called Online World of Wrestling.


Attendee #142 is Lee White writes about News and views about the most corrupt town in America, El Dorado Kansas.


Attendee #143 is Kat Markert designed an interesting blog which is a “collection of the serious, silly, and slightly bizarre food things I’m into.”


Attendee #144 is Todd Abrams needs a blog…


Attendee #145 is Michael Tchong is the blogger of the ubercool blog and founder of five media and technology start-ups, including MacWEEK, CyberAtlas and ICONOCAST.


Attendee #146 is Mark Myers was nice enough to send me a message wit the correct spelling of his name and his URL which let me know he works for Compass Rose Media and besides the linked blog also blogs at his primary blogging project is called The Multnomah Villager, and it’s a hyper-local blog about my neighborhood.


Attendee #147 is Michael Aires likes twitter enough he’s using it as his main contcnt, and designs for Threadless T’s.


Attendee #148 is Bill Hopps linked to a blog without posts, that he says he posts web seminars.


Attendee #149 is Erica OGrady is an Award Winning Web Designer/Developer, Creativity Coach, Writer, Part-Time Tutor, Aspiring Film-Maker, BarCamp Enthusiast, World Traveler, and Grown-up Girl Scout. On her spare weekends she likes to found startup companies (see VoSnap Inc.), interview famous folks for The Business Makers (her Houston based radio show), and write about community and technology on her blog: ReinventingErica.com


Attendee #150 is Ulysses Ronquillo is an IT Project Manager, I get that from his bio… but doesn’t say for where.

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