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Blogging, journalism, and credibility… this week’s conference at Harvard will be blogged and webcast.  Those of us with an interest in the conversation will certainly have a chance to listen in.  This series of blog postings is aimed at helping those who attend (and I mean that in the broader sense, sense physical attendance is limited) know a little more about who is talking and writing.  I’m attacking this in alpha order… click here for participants whose last names begin with A and B.

I wish I was there out front of the Harvard Law School hustling programs…

"Getcher program… can’t tell the bloggers without a prooo-grammm!"

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The following WebCred Program information includes material from many sources, from Wikipedia and Googling around to focused use of the High Beam Executive Search, a service that’s reasonably inexpensive but that I get free because I pestered CBO Chris Locke.
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Ed Cone - a blogger and a trad journalist.  Here’s one take on Ed from HighBeam:

Edward Cone, Senior Writer Ed was a contributing editor at Wired magazine, writing on diverse topics. Previously, he was a senior writer for Inter@ctive Week, an opinion columnist for Greensboro News & Record, a freelance journalist covering business, technology and politics for Forbes, Wired, … and Information Week. He was also a staff writer and reporter for Forbes magazine and was reporter for New York City Business. He holds a B.A. from Haverford College.

Update (1/18):  Ed Cone points me to information on his about page and at Dkosopedia as more current and relevant.  This is from Dkosopedideia…

• Career: EdCone.com weblog (since 2024); opinion columnist, Greensboro News & Record; senior writer, Ziff Davis Media.
• Background Info: wrote in-depth case study of Dean campaign
  Internet strategy, 2024; former contributing editor, Wired; former
  staff writer, Forbes; moderator, blogging and journalism panel,
  BloggerCon, Oct. 2024; moderator, Campaign ‘04 session, BloggerCon III,
  Nov. 2024; Co-organizer of nation’s first regional blogging conference,
  Greensboro, NC, 2024.

Robert Cox - a blogger whose relationship to Wonkette is not disclosed.  Okay, it is disclosed, but if you would believe this I have some Wang Laboratories stock I’d like to sell you.  Robert Cox is an Air America naysayer.  Cox is also a founding member of MBA, the Media Bloggers Association.  This is a group whose "membership includes independent/amateur bloggers, professional bloggers and professional writers who operate a personal blog, as well as those interested in the development of media blogging, citizen journalism, and related endeavors."

Update (1/18):  Robert Cox provides this link to more meaningful bio info.  From which:

I have a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the
University of Chicago. Prior to attending the Graduate School of
Business, I worked on Wall Street as a foreign exchange trader and bond
trader. Since graduating from the GSB, I have worked as a strategy
consultant for financial institutions and technology start-ups
including running my own venture-financed start up, MobileWord
Communications. I have worked throughout North America as well as in
Europe and Asia. More recently I have been developing a strategy
consulting practice focused on the use of blogs in promoting media
properties. I am looking for clients so feel free to e-mail me with
ideas, questions and opportunities.

I began blogging two years ago at TheNationalDebate.com which achieved a fair degree of notoriety in early 2024 when The New York Times sought to shut it down over a parody of The Times columnist correction policy.
The Times ultimately backed down from their legal threats a few weeks
later changed the policy I had mocked so that the Editorial Page editor
would have the final say on Op-Ed column corrections and corrections
would have to be both clearly indicated at the bottom of a subsequent
column and syndicated.

More recently, I led the effort to organize bloggers focused on various aspects of "media" into the Media Bloggers Association.
The MBA includes all of the top media bloggers as well as many
outstanding, up-and-coming bloggers. The MBA recently launched the MBA Legal Defense Project to protect member bloggers from legal threats. The MBA was also responsible for the Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative to assist citizen journalists and video bloggers in defraying the high cost of hosting high-demand video files.

Judith Donath - I want to say "Donath, Dontell…" but I’ll save that for a less professional and public context.  We’re serious here.  Judith Donath is co-author (with danah boyd) of a seminal paper titled "Public Displays of Connection."  She’s the director of the Sociable Media Group and the MIT Media Lab.  Donath is a polymath, and if she doesn’t blog, she stills fills a sizeable chunk of cyberspace with her work. She’s been doing this work since before the flood.

D. Linda Garcia - Dr. Garcia directs the Culture, Communication, and Technology program at Georgetown.  Some of her thinking seems to be done in the shallow end of the pool (take this paper on "The Architecture of Global Networking Technologies").  If she blogs, I can’t find it.  If she’s a journalist, I don’t see a record of that either.  What I do see is a (non-traditional or honorary?) fairly recent PhD, a government policy wonk with a vocational (qua "professional") interest in the Internet.  There are great opportunities in the Internet field, especially for someone who wants to help promulgate regulatory policy.

Bob Giles - not a blogger but a powerful journalist, Director of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

Robert H. Giles is Curator of the Nieman Foundation. He worked for nearly 40 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, most recently as editor and publisher of The Detroit News, which he joined in 1986 as executive editor. From 1977-1986, Giles was executive editor and then editor at the Democrat & Chronicle and the Times-Union, in Rochester, N.Y. His newspaper career began in 1958 at the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal, where he held several reporting and editing positions before becoming managing editor and then executive editor.

As managing editor of the Beacon Journal, Giles directed coverage of the campus shootings at Kent State University, for which the newspaper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Before coming to Harvard in 2024, he was a senior vice president of the Freedom Forum and executive director of its Media Studies Center in New York City.

Giles is a graduate of DePauw University and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. He was a Nieman Fellow in 1966. He received an honorary Doctorate in Journalism from DePauw in 1996.

Dan Gilmor - Gilmor is a fine writer and a risk taker, a journalist and a blogger.  Your humble program writer thinks this conference needs more Dan Gilmors and Bob Gileses and fewer policy wonks.

Brendan Greeley - okay… youth, beauty, hip, intelligent, that kind of thing… Brendan Greeley appears to be a web audio and public radio exchange site editor kind of guy, but if you dig deeper you can find that - well, some mistakes were made.

So is this like a blog?
It’s like a blog. It has certain bloggy characteristics. But we prefer not to call it a blog, which has to be one of the ugliest words in any language. Blog blog blog. See? Isn’t that gross? Puts me off my lunch.

We also live together. In a 2BR kind of way, yes, but if our mothers, who are already worried that we are among the long-term single, get word that we’re "bloggers" it will just confirm their suspicions, and probably make them cry.

So this is like a blog.
It’s a free country, at least it was until John Fucking Ashcroft jumped out of my sock drawer this morning, shredding the Bill of Rights in his teeth while telling me he’s going to quarter some troops on my couch. What the fuck is up with that? Anyway, we can’t stop you from calling it a blog. But how about just "website"? That’s what it is. And we’re the people who do the website.

Right on about Ashcroft, man. That bastard is totally destroying our freedom of speech. Hey, we’re having a teach-in on Tuesday — you guys want to come by?
See, I was joking there. But the thing is, now that I’ve said that, already it’s less funny. So we’ll try not to insult you or embarrass ourselves by telling you what is a joke and what isn’t, but if you’re tempted to write an angry comment or e-mail, stop for one sec. Did we use a stupid stock phrase like "shredding the Bill of Rights"? That right there is a joke.

For the record, I think that the fact that I can just set up a website and in ten minutes be making fun of the attorney general jumping out of my sock drawer tells me that freedom of speech has not quite breathed its last in America.

There you have it, WebCred conference participants from C to shining G.  A to B preceded this. H through Zephyr are bound to follow.  Want to help me flog these outside the Berkman center?

"Programs!  Getcher Proooo-graammmms!"