Jon

I've been online since the late 1980s, and I've been an Internet professional since 1992, when Paco Nathan and I formed FringeWare, Inc., the first Internet-based company. We operated the FringeWare News Network and published FringeWare Review. We met as associate editors at bOING bOING (the zine version). I went on to write for several publications and edit a subdomain of the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. I also got into online activism, and I've been active since it was founded with EFF and its attempted chapter, EFF-Austin (EFF never did chapters, so EFF-Austin became a standalone nonprofit organization). Starting in 1997 I worked with Whole Foods Market on their ecommerce sites, which were ambitions, ahead of their time, and no longer exist. I've done a bunch of other stuff, variously involved with the WELL, Wired and HotWired, the WELL and Howard Rheingold, the short-lived Social Software Alliance of the early 1990s, etc. I've been blogging for years at http://weblogsky.com.