Alan Graham is the creator and editor of the Best of Blogs series. A digital chameleon, his career in technology spans over 10 years; he has worked with some of the biggest and brightest companies in the Internet firmament, which in retrospect have tunrned out to be run by some of the dimmest. During that time, appearances include Wired magazine (under an assumed name), The London Observer, Po Bronson’s The Nudist on the Lateshift (sadly, he is not the nudist), and the Jim Lehrer NewsHour. Since leaving the business side of technology for a writing career three years ago, he has become an author for O’Reilly & Associates, Apress, and WordWare, and he has written for Macworld magazine, MacAddict magazine, and the O’Reilly Network. Most notably, Alan planned and executed a trip sponsored by CompUSA and Handspring to traverse 10,000 miles, through 20+ states, in just 30 days, using only his trusty PDA to navigate and document the trip. He plans to do it again as soon as someone invents something worthwhile to write about. His regular columns and blog can be found on the O’Reilly Network at: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ au/165.
Bonnie Burton submersed herself into Web culture long before the word “blogging” was even coined. She’s written about everything from online dating adventures to unusual eBay.com collecting obsessions. Her work has appeared in the magazines Wired, The Net, Yahoo Internet Life, BUST, and Organic Gardening as well as online at @Home Network, MissClick.com, Backwash.com, Winamp.com, and Teenwire.com. She has appeared as a Web pop culture media expert on E! Television, CNN Headline News, BBC, ABC News, Tokyo Broadcasting System and TechTV; and she has been featured in the books: Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Dating and Relating, Net Chick, Fierce.Com, Alt.Culture: An A-To-Z Guide to the ’90s-Underground, Online, Over-TheCounter, and The Real Bettie Page. The Bonnie Blog and additional columns can be found on her Website, Grrl.com.
John Burton (the illustrator) is a graphic designer and freelance illustrator living in Conneticut. His recent projects include illustrations for Teenwire.com, Grrl.com, and various other pop culture Websites. To see more of his illustrations, bizzare haiku, and unfinished plays, visit his Website, Ragindsquirrel.com.