Boing Boing
Blog: www.boingboing.net
Bio: David Pescovitz is the coeditor of BoingBoing.net. He is also a research director at the not-for-profit think tank Institute for the Future (IFTF) where he studies how tomorrow’s new media technologies may transform the way we live. Pescovitz is also editor-at-large for MAKE: and cowrote the book Reality Check, based on his long-running forecasting column in Wired magazine where he remains a correspondent. He has also written about technology and design for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Interior Design, Scientific American, ID and many other publications. His explorations of fringe culture, science and art are featured in the books True Mutations (Pollinator Press, 2007), What Are You Optimistic About? (Harper, 2007), Else/Where: Mapping (University of Minnesota, 2006) and The Happy Mutant Handbook (Riverhead, 1996). Pescovitz is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Science and has frequently appeared on television and radio, including CNN, Fox News, and NPR.
NOTCOT
Blog: www.notcot.com
Bio: Jean Aw is a 26-year-old designer, trendspotter and entrepreneur. She holds a Masters Degree in User Experience Design where she focused on both conceptual and visual design and usability research.
She has since channeled her education and design into NOTCOT Inc, a network of informative and collaborative Web sites that doubles as a design consultancy. By keeping her readers (and her readers keeping her) on the cutting edge of design, this network demonstrates, inspires and promotes smart, simple user experiences while stimulating a visual, aesthetic and textual dialogue between users and designers.
While currently based in her hometown of Los Angeles, CA, she is very mobile, hopping around the country and across the globe, entrenching herself in international culture and their respective design hot spots. She often finds the most incredible things in the most unlikely places and loves bringing them to her readers, often leaving them wondering whether the treasure was in their existence or in their discovery.
Inhabitat
Blog: www.inhabitat.com
Bio: Jill Fehrenbacher is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Inhabitat.com, as well as a freelance designer, green design consultant, and architecture student. She created Inhabitat in the Spring of 2005 as a way to catalog her endless search for new ways to improve the world through forward-thinking, high-tech and environmentally conscious design. Educated at Brown University, where she received a B.A. in Art Semiotics, and Central St. Martins, where she received an M.A. in Design Studies, she currently resides in New York City, which so far has been good for her obsession with rooftop gardens and vegan junk food restaurants.
Boy Genius Report
Blog: www.boygeniusreport.com
Bio: Boy Genius, founder of the instantly popular tech blog, Boy Genius Report, started out with a passion for gadgets, mobile phones and all-around cool stuff. That passion transformed into a Web site people frantically visit multiple times a day, hoping that there’s an update about new or unreleased mobile phones and devices. From its inception, BGR has stood for the consumer, the individual. Frequently breaking news and scoops, BGR and Boy Genius have been quoted or featured in: The New York Times, CNN, Fortune, NY Post, ABC, CNBC, Fox News, Time and many more.