Guests
Fred von Lohmann
My favorite passage in any book occurs on page 10 of The Great Gatsby, although generally I prefer books written by women, about women. Most books about men are boring, unless…
Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea is a bisexual author and organizer known for her work on issues from queer culture to feminism to prostitution. Michelle co-founded Sister Spit, an all-girl spoken…
Cassidy Curtis
Cassidy Curtis is an animator living in San Francisco. He spends his days at DreamWorks, wiggling the butts of various talking animals for movies like Shrek 2 and Madagascar, and…
Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig, the founder and CEO of the Creative Commons, is a Stanford Law Professor who also founded the school”s Center for Internet and Society. Lawrence is known…
Tanene Allison
After setting out on her own as a gay teenager, dropping out from high school and leaving behind an abusive home and hometown, Tanene Allison moved to San Francisco where she circulated…
Ben Ceverny
Ben Ceverny is a noted experience designer and conceptual strategist driving various an array of projects in the public and private spheres for clients like Amsterdam, Barcelona,…
Thea Hillman
While Thea Hillman uses six words to describe herself: shine, rebel, behold, engage, disrupt and connect, her quirky accomplishments go even further in letting you know who she…
Ev Williams
A Nebraskan farm boy turned serial entrepreneur, Ev Williams has founded several successful Internet companies. Williams got his start at Pyra Labs, which built Blogger, and was…
Jonathan Coulton
Jonathan Coulton went from high school marching band snare drummer to college a cappella singer to software developer. Jonathan eventually quit his programming gig to do music…
Denise Caruso
Denise Caruso is the founder of the scientific thinktank Hybrid Vigor Institute and the author of, among other works, the award-winning Intervention. Denise is a pioneering Digital…
Virginia Treat
Virginia Treat married while a teenager. Her life changed when depression led to an unhappy marriage addiction to methamphetamine. She is now in her remarkable 5th year of successful…
Michael Macaluso
Michael Macaluso is a certified Holistic Health Counselor who specializes in holistic nutrition, emotional eating, and food allergy consulting. Michael uses the lens of food and…
Dechen Tsering
Dechen Tsering is an active member of the Tibetan Association of Northern California. She was born in exile in Nepal where her father was the Dalai Lama's representative. Raised…
Jeffrey McGrew
Jeffrey McGrew comes from a deep background of professional design, Architecture, and the industry of construction. For the last three years he has been the co-owner of the design-build…
Libby Bulloff
Libby Bulloff is a creative conceptualist from Bloomington, Indiana, and one of the contributors to Steampunk magazine. In the fall of 2007, she held a successful steampunk-themed…
Christy Canida
Christy Canida earned her SB in Biology from MIT, and worked in transgenic mouse labs, an aquarium, and the biotech industry before joining Instructables. She loves cutting things…
Jesse Simons
Jesse Simons is the Director of Strategies for the Sierra Club’s Climate Recovery Campaign. Prior to his work in the environmental movement, Jesse successfully led a dotcom…
Joshua Grannell
Joshua Grannell is better known as his camp-horror alter ego Peaches Christ a drag performer who came to fame hosting San Francisco's Midnight Mass movie shows and Trannyshack.…
Aundré the Wonderwoman
When Aundré the Wonderwoman, “The Queen of Nothing Sacred,” was first introduced by comic hero Steve Harvey, he called her a “new comic with a funny way…
Betsy Salkind
The Boston Globe wrote “There are countless ways to make someone laugh, and Betsy Salkind knows most of them. Want sarcastic wit? Political humor? Or maybe just a good animal…
Derek Powazek
Named one of the top 40 “Industry Influencers” of 2007 by Folio, Derek Powazek is the cofounder of JPG, the photography magazine created by its community, and cofounder…
Amy Tobin
Amy Tobin is an Oakland-based performer, vocalist, composer and writer. Since her groundbreaking first musical, Who’s there, Gummybear? which premiered at Old Bonhomme Elementary…
Merlin Mann
Merlin Mann is the creator of and primary contributor for 43 Folders, a family of websites about personal productivity, “life hacks,” and simple ways to make your life…
Jane McGonigal
Dr. Jane McGonigal is a game designer and researcher who specializes in pervasive and alternate reality games. Jane’s work has been commissioned by the Whitney Museum…
Deb Schulz
A self-described “evangelist and rabble rouser in the Relationship Economy” Deb Schultz explores the juncture where people, technology and media meet. Deb consults,…
German Walteros
German Walteros grew up in Columbia and is a therapist in the Mission district of San Francisco.
Jeff Veen
Jeffrey Veen is a speaker, author, user experience consultant and founding partner of Adaptive Path. Jeff lead the team that created Measure Map, a web analytics tool acquired…
April Rinne
The daughter of a cultural geographer and amateur cartographer, April Rinne was exposed to a global perspective from a young age and is driven by the belief that “the world…
Ben Brown
Ben Brown, the Internet Rockstar is best known for cofounding the social networking site Consumating and coining the term Google Bomb. This University of Maryland dropout left…
Nick Douglas
Satirist and writer Nick Douglas is best known for his stint as editor of Valleywag, a Silicon Valley gossip blog.
Cathy Brooks
Cathy has spent more than two decades working in and around media and communications. She’s currently wearing the mantle of Executive Producer for a very exciting Seesmic.…
Lindsey Matson
Lindsey Matson is in her first year at Boise State U and is passionate about making a difference, especially around sex education. Lindsey works at the BSU Women's Center, and…
Sandy Schackel
Sandy Schackel is a beloved, popular professor in the Boise State University History Department who also teaches Gender Studies. She did what was expected of a cheerleader in her…
Roger Berkowitz
Roger Berkowitz is a remarkable interdisciplinary scholar, teacher, and writer whose interests stretch from Greek and German philosophy to legal history and from the history of…
Jillian Northrup
Jillian Northrup comes from many years in professional design and digital photography working mostly in the retail, publishing, and entertainment industries. For the last three…
Captain Robert
Captain Robert is the founder, singer/songwriter/mastermind behind Abney Park. Abney Park comes from an era that never was, but one that we wish had been. An era where airships…
Jake von Slatt
Jake von Slatt is Massachusetts-based tinkerer, hardware hacker and proprietor of The Steampunk Workshop. Jake is interested in the blending of 19th-century aesthetics and technology…
Eric Wilhelm
Eric Wilhelm earned his SB, SM, and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, where he developed methods to print electronics and micro-electromechanical systems using nanoparticles.…
Travis Meinolf
Born in the Bay Area and living and weaving in San Francisco since 2000, Travis Meinolf is currently a graduate student at California College of the Arts. He is interested in engaging,…