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Where are they now? Find your former coworkers from the Eden of Mac journalism. Stephen Howard-Sarin compiled this list starting in June 2001 with lots of help from David Morgenstern and Raines Cohen. I know there are lots of people missing, so please send updates to macweek@Oct17.com. |
| Name (e-mail) | Current gig (personal site) | Dates, distinctions |
| Eric ADAMS | Sleeperwave | |
| Cynde AHART | SmartAge [TK] | |
| Michele AHERN | Microsoft: mediacenter.msn.com (in NYC); roomies with Tammy | 1989 to 1992 |
| Shari Lynn ALLISON | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Jennifer AMBRULEVICH | Formerly in Hawaii, back in SF | |
| Shari ANDERSON | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Kandy ARNOLD | Philips | 1990 |
| Mariann Hansen BARSOLO | Acquisitions editor, Sybex | 1990 to 1997 |
| John BATTEIGER | San Francisco Chronicle | |
| John BATTELLE | Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism | 1988 to TK |
| Brenda BENNER | Own business: Freelance editor | |
| Nevin BERGER | Former Web creative director, Worldsavings.com | 1989 to 1995 |
| Keith BOWERS | Formely of Ziff Davis Smart Business | |
| Karen BRANNAN | Last seen in SoCal | |
| Emily BROWER | Doing PR somewhere | 1987 to TK |
| Dartanyan BROWN | Teacher in Marin [TK] | |
| Kurt CARLSON | TK | |
| Betsy CARNEY | Communications specialist for SOM; famous heckler; living with Kottenbach | 1987 to TK |
| Nancy CARTER | TK | 1988 to TK |
| Christina Follmann CHAVIRA | Own business: freelance writing/editing -- in Chico, Calif.! | |
| Abi CHRISTOPHER | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Jeff COHEN | TK | 1988 to TK |
| Raines COHEN | Own business: Communitarian Visions (raines.com) | 1989 to 1994 |
| Cliff COLBY | Peachpit Press | |
| Dale COLEMAN | MIA | 1987 to TK |
| Cate CORCORAN | Last seen at PeoplePC | |
| Cate C. CORCORAN | Last seen at InfoWorld | |
| Marty CORTINAS | Own business: freelance writer/editor | |
| Suzanne "Bones" COURTEAU | Teaching English in Mexico | eMediaWeekly Fu*kz Club! |
| Elinor CRAIG | Own business: Retirement Insider (defunct?) | 1987 to TK |
| Carla Daiss POSTHAUER | Programs development manager, DevX | 1988 to TK |
| Anita DENNIS | Own business: writing and editing (AnitaDennis.com) | eMediaWeekly Fu*kz Club! |
| Griffin DIX | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Debra DI BLASI | Fiction writer/screenwriter/art columnist. Creative writing teacher at Kansas City Art Institute. Hey, all you wannabes: She's written actual BOOKS! (Personal Web site) | 1989 to 1989 earthquake |
| Andrea DUDROW | Production editor, Abrams Books in NYC (dudrow.com) | |
| Karl ELKEN | PC Magazine, Ziff Davis Media | eMediaWeekly Fu*ckz Club! |
| David EZEQUELLE | TK | |
| Sam FAILLACE | Microsoft (in Redmond) | |
| Dan FARBER | SVP editorial development, CNET Networks | 1988 to TK |
| John FARNSWORTH | Own business: Farnsworth Design | 1993to 1999, eMediaWeekly |
| Ric FORD | Editor-in-chief, MacInTouch.com | 1987 to TK |
| Henri FROISSART | TK | |
| Chris Vynhalek GALBRAITH | Own business: digital produciton artist (new baby) | 1988 to 1993 |
| Rochelle GARNER | Own business: writing & editing | 1988 to TK |
| Shelly GARGUS | Living in NYC's east village, purpose unknown | 1987 to TK |
| Tami GARGUS | Production artist at NBC (in NYC) | First employee 1987 to TK |
| Kerry GATES | Publisher, MSDN Magazine | 1989 to TK |
| Kelvin GEE | XUMA | eMediaWeekly Fu*kz Club! |
| Tom GELLER | Real estate agent | |
| Michael GOODWIN | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Andy GORE | Formerly at Macworld | |
| Jeff GREEN | Editor, Computer Gaming World | |
| Connie GUGLIELMO | Own business: writing and editing | 1987 to TK |
| Rebecca GULICK | Peachpit Press | |
| Mark HALL | Editor at Large, ComputerWorld | |
| Melody Kean HALLER | President, Antenna Group (PR firm) | 1987 to 1989 |
| Missy HAMILTON | TK | 1988 to TK |
| Serena HERR | Editorial director, Adobe.com | eMediaWeekly Fu*kz Club! |
| Robert HESS | Dead | |
| Lenny HEYMANN | Vice president of content, NetWorld+Interop | |
| Charles HOBLITZELLE | TK | 1987 to TK |
| William HOOVEN | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Jonathan HORNSTEIN | VP at Softpress | 1988 to TK |
| Stephen HOWARD-SARIN | AVP of ZDNet.com at CNET Networks (October17.com) | 1988 to 1997 |
| J.T. JOHNSON | TK | First editor 1987 to TK |
| Leander KAHNEY | Wired News | |
| Michelle KELLOGG | Own business: Designer, product art director for Red Lantern Design | |
| Lee KERR | TK | 1988 to TK |
| Barri KLINGAMAN | in Minnesota? | |
| Kathy KOTTENBACH | Back in SF; living with Carney (!) | 1988 to TK |
| Caroline KWOK | TK | 1988 to TK |
| Catherine LACROIX | TK, formerly Tendo Communciations | |
| Michael LAMATTINA | TK | 1988 to TK |
| Margaret LEE | Last seen in Filene's Basement | |
| Michelle LEE | TK | |
| Cliff LEHMAN | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Ellie LEISHMAN | TK, formerly Macworld | 1988 to TK |
| Chuck LENATTI | Last seen at Business 2.0 | |
| Rick LEPAGE | President and editorial director, Macworld | 1987 to TK |
| Chuck LENATTI | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Jonathan LITTMAN | Writing books | 1987 to 1987 |
| Pete LONGO | EVP & Publishing director, Ziff Davis Media | |
| Anita MALNIG | EVP of Content Development, Right Brain Marketing (with Vicki Welch) | 1988 to TK |
| Janice MALONEY | Home with first-born | 1988 to TK |
| Tim MANOUSOS | Home with first-born, looking for tech-writing gig | |
| Anne MATERA | Own business: freelance book editing; living outside Albany, N.Y. | TK |
| Renee MATTHEWS | Last seen at Claris | 1988 to TK |
| Wendy MATTSON | TK | eMediaWeekly Fu*kz Club! |
| Will MCCLATCHY | TK | 1988 to TK |
| Sean MCDONALD | PC World | |
| Neil MCMANUS | Last seen in Europe | |
| David MORGENSTERN | Own business: Freelancing (davidMorgenstern.com), and storage guy for Ziff Davis | eMediaWeekly F*ckz Club |
| Russ NORDMEYER | Formerly of Industry Standard | |
| Henry NORR | Now famously former columnist, SF Chron | 1987 to TK |
| Bernard OHANIAN | National Geographic | 1988 to TK |
| Patty ORSINI | Executive editor, AdWEEK (lives in same N.J. town as Matthew!) | TK |
| Kirsten PARKINSON | English professor, Hiram College | 1992 to 1994 |
| Donna PECK | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Joanna PEARLSTEIN | Research editor, Wired magazine | |
| Jonathan PERROW | TK | 1988 to TK |
| Pam PFIFFNER | General manager & editor-in-chief, CreativePro.com | |
| Sean PFISTER | TK | 1988 to TK |
| Lisa PICARILLE | TechTV | |
| John POULTNEY | Executive editor, Communications Systems Design/CMP Media Inc. | |
| Heather QUAYLE | eWEEK | |
| Mitch RATCLIFFE | TK | |
| Richard RAWLES | TK | 1988 to TK |
| Amy RICHARDSON | StageBill | |
| Missy ROBACK | Own business: Honeybee Publishing | |
| Matthew ROTHENBERG | Best practices editor, Baseline magazine | 1989 to 2000 |
| Dan RUBY | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Kelly RYER | Peachpit Press | |
| Carolyn SAID | San Francisco Chronicle | 1988 to TK |
| Maria SAMPLE | TechTV | |
| Leslie SAPERSTEIN | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Steven SHALIT | Worldweb.Net | |
| Gevin SHAW | Freelance Graphic Design: www.grafx.gs | 1996 to 1999 |
| David SMITH | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Steve SPINGOLA | Macworld. Also, own business: Phone Booth bar | |
| Pete STANGEL | TK | 1988 to TK |
| James STATEN | Sun's Network Storage Division | |
| Laura STOLL | Own business: Freelance graphic artist | 1988 to TK |
| JoAnn STURTRIDGE | Dead | 1988 to TK |
| April STREETER | in Scandinavia? | |
| Gary SUEN | Creative director, ICONOCAST | 1988 to TK |
| Jonathan SWARTZ | Technology reporter, USA Today | 1987 to TK |
| Michael TCHONG | CEO, ICONOCAST | Founder 1987 to TK |
| Ben Templin | Now a lawyer, I think | |
| Sue TROY | Managing editor, eWEEK; living in Hampstead, N.H. | 1988 to TK |
| Daniel Drew TURNER | Own business: Freelance writing | eMediaWeekly, Fu*kz Club! |
| Gail WAGNER | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Mitzi WALTZ | Own business: freelancing (MitziWaltz.com) | 1988 to TK |
| Becky WARING | Own business; she's writing all over | 1988 to TK |
| Suzanne WEBER | TK | 1988 to TK |
| John WEBSTER | TK | 1988 to TK |
| Jiri WEISS | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Nathalie WELCH | PR, Apple Computer | |
| Ted WELCH | TK | 1988 to TK |
| Vickie WELCH | Own business: Right Brain Marketing (with Anita Malnig) | |
| Carolyn WEST | Mom (New baby's Web site) | 1988 to TK |
| Rusty WESTON | Editor of InformationWeek.com and InformationWeek Research | 1987 to TK |
| Kathy WHITE | Charles Schwab | |
| Clair WHITMER | Own business: writing and editing (seeks to be a private investigator, though) | 1987 to TK |
| Margie WYLIE | Cyberspace and technology writer for Newhouse News Service (work bio -- notice what's missing?) | |
| Laslo VESPREMI | TK | 1987 to TK |
| Fellow Travelers | ||
| Don CRABB | Dead | Columnist |
| Bruce FRASER | Own business: freelance writing | Reviewer, columnist |
| Andy IHNATKO | TK | On staff for one week |
| Avi RAPPOPORT | Own business: Search Tools Consulting (searchtools.com) | Indexer, writer |
| Mark SIMMONS | TK | ZiffNet/Mac |
| Mac THE KNIFE | Dead (Naked Mole Rat) | Columnist |
| Kirk VAN DRUTEN | Own business: LANsharks consulting | Network consultant |
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