This section's temporary editor is Hylton Jolliffe, the founder, editor, and publisher of Corante. He has spent his entire career in media, first in Hong Kong for a small international magazine start-up, then in New York for several tradebook and online ventures, and since with Corante, which he founded in late 2000.

Tom Abate is a writer and business man who blogs at MiniMediaGuy. A former small press publisher, he studied for a Master's Degree in Journalism at Columbia University where, in 1991, he won a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. Tom has worked in San Francisco newspapers since 1992, covering science, technology, biotechnology and economics. From 1980 through 1990, he co-founded a now-defunct typography firm and an alternative paper, the Northcoast Journal, still published (under new ownership) in Arcata, California. A Brooklyn native and U.S. Navy veteran, Tom studied political science and Mandarin Chinese at UC Berkeley, where he edited the campus paper, The Daily Californian. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Mia Ousley, their sons, Julius and Aeneas, and daughter, AnaSofia.

Robert J. Ambrogi is a lawyer, writer and media professional who practices media and new media law in Massachusetts. He is former editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal, Lawyers Weekly USA and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, and serves as executive director of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association. He writes two blogs, Media Law and LawSites, both available through legaline.com, and cohosts the weekly legal news podcast Coast to Coast. A graduate of Boston College Law School, he is author of two books, most recently The Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, and writes the Web Watch column for the magazine Law Technology News.

Robert Andrews is a journalist and editor who has written about technology and emerging media for over a decade. After spending a few years in newsprint, he helped launch a couple of the UK's first news content sites and became a staff reporter at BBC News, where he wrote and produced sections for one of the world's best-loved acronyms. Commended in a regional Internet Journalist of the Year award, Robert writes for the likes of Wired, Digital Home, PC Plus and New Musical Express and has appeared in Time magazine, Los Angeles Business Journal and on BBC radio. He has lectured on journalism and blogging and uses his website to record his own work and to offer thoughts on the radical media future.

Marc E. Babej is the president of Reason inc, a strategy consulting firm based in New York which advises companies in a wide range of industries: from health care, to packaged goods, to financial service, to media & entertainment. Previously a reporter for Forbes, Marc went on to work in advertising for firms such as Deutsch Advertising, Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners, JWT and DMB&B. He holds degrees from Brown University (A.B.) and Columbia University (M.S., Journalism) and aside from his native German, speaks French, Italian and Czech. He blogs at Being Reasonable.

Dorian Benkoil is a senior consultant in digital publishing for Teeming Media, a New York-based media group. An award-winning journalist and editor, he was a foreign correspondent for AP and Newsweek, and international and managing editor for ABCNews.com. At ABC News he moved to the business side, handling sales integration and business development, before joining Fairchild Publications as General Manager for their Internet Division. He is in the process of acquiring an MBA from Baruch's Zicklin school of business. Learn more about him at Benkoil.com or his blog MediaFlect.com; he also blogs at Rebuilding Media on Corante.

Shayne Bowman is the co-owner and founder of Hypergene Media Solutions, a media consulting and design firm in Atlanta, Ga. He has developed and designed software and media products for BellSouth, Hearst, Hewlett-Packard, iView Multimedia, Voyager and MyFamily.com. Prior to Hypergene, Bowman was an art director and designer for 15 years at metro newspapers including The Detroit News and The Los Angeles Times. In 1996, he co-founded a city magazine in Detroit. Bowman is the co-author of "Designing Web Sites That Sell" by Peachpit Press (2003) and co-wrote two widely-recognized papers on journalism and new media: "We Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information" (2002) and "Amazoning the News" (2001). He co-authors the Hypergene MediaBlog, a weblog about participatory journalism.

Robert Cauthorn, who blogs at Corante's Rebuilding Media, is a journalist, former vice president of digital media at the San Francisco Chronicle, and was the third recipient of the Newspaper Association of America's prestigious Digital Pioneer Award. He launched one of the first five newspapers web sites in the world and is generally considered to have delivered the first profitable newspaper web site in 1995. Cauthorn has been in the middle of the transition from old media to new and is recognized as frank-talking critic when he believes newspapers stray for their mission. In mid-2004 he became the president of CityTools, LLC a new media startup based in San Francisco.

Ben Compaine, who blogs at Corante's Rebuilding Media, has divided his career between the academic world and private business. He was a journalist when manual typewriters were considered state of the art, but also led the conversion of his college newspaper to cold type. He has started and managed weekly newspapers. His dissertation at Temple University in 1977 was about the changing technologies that were going to unsettle the landscape of the staid and low profit newspaper industry. Since then he has focused his research and consulting on examining the forces and trends at work in the information industries. Among his most well-known works (and the name of his blog) is "Who Owns the Media?".

Paul Conley entered journalism at the age of six. Too young to be hired as a paper boy, he convinced a neighborhood teenager to subcontract his route. Since then, Paul has continued to rewrite the rules of the profession as a reporter, editor, bureau chief, producer and executive. Paul's blog serves those who toil in the most specialized, and perhaps the least glamorous, area in the press -- trade journalism.

Vin Crosbie, who blogs at Corante's Rebuilding Media, is president and managing partner of Digital Deliverance, a new media consulting firm. The fifth generation of his family in the newspaper business, Vin was an executive with Reuters and UPI, was the first director of online publishing for News Corporation, and was one of the pioneers at Freemark Communications in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who invented the concept of free e-mail.

Jonathan Dube is an award-winning online and print journalist and founder, editor and publisher of CyberJournalist.net. Jonathan is Editorial Director for the CBC's Web site, CBC.ca; writes a weekly column and occasionally teaches for The Poynter Institute; and serves on the Online News Association board. Previously, he served as MSNBC.com's managing producer and the site's former technology editor. Dube has also worked as a national producer for ABCNEWS.com and as a writer for The Charlotte Observer. He's won six Society of Professional Journalists awards, and his coverage of the 1999 World Trade Organization riots in Seattle won ONA’s first-ever Online Journalism Award for Breaking News.

Robin Good is a new media and communication researcher , a successful entrepreneuring online micro-publisher and an active agent of social change. Robin is the editor of MasterNewMedia.org, MasterViews.com and Kolabora.com, the soul behind the Communication Agents Journal (www.communicationagents.com) and the producer-director behind the first open-source movie about blogs TheWeblogProject.com. Robin has been a professional explorer and trainer in the use of new media technologies for effective communication and learning for the last 15 years. He has worked for the UN, World Bank, FAO, CGIAR and the Arab Planning Institute in developing complex online information systems and multi/language web sites, as well as serving top international advertising agencies such as McCann-Erickson and J Walter Thompson in designing successful visual marketing campaigns.

Terry Heaton is the president, founder, chief consultant, web developer, futurist, and strategist of DONATA™ Communications, based in Nashville, TN. He writes for numerous blogs, including his Pomo blog, was President and CEO of ANSIR Communications, and spent nearly 30 years in the television business, an industry he left after running numerous local news organizations.

Mark Hamilton spent 26 years with community-based newspapers in Canada, starting as an untrained sports reporter. He worked as sports editor, reporter, photographer and editor for a small-town daily and for a number of suburban twice- and thrice-a-week newspapers. In the late 1990s, after briefly running a graphic design business, he started teaching journalism at Kwantlen University College near Vancouver, BC. Mark created the blog Notes from a Teacher in January 2004 to explore journalism with his students. It has evolved into a deeper exploration of media issues and gained the subtitle Mark on Media. Blogging, he says, "Helps me share the excitement, and think through the challenges and promises, of living in one of the most exciting times I have ever seen for journalism." His blog: Notes from a Teacher.

J.D. Lasica is co-founder and executive director of Ourmedia, a free nonprofit global repository and community space for grassroots video, audio, photos and text. A writer and blogger, his new book about the personal media revolution -- "Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation" -- is the result of two years of reporting and research. J.D blogs about citizens media and digital rights at Newmediamusings and Darknet.com. He lives with his wife and 6-year-old son in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a frequent speaker and panelist at new media and technology conferences. In a previous life, J.D. was an entertainment editor at the Sacramento Bee and in senior management at several startups.

Merrell Ligons, who blogs at New Media Marketer, is an online ad sales manager at The San Antonio Express-News, a Hearst corporation newspaper. His background in website programming and database design have given him a special perspective on how new tools and technologies are impacting media companies and how they might harness them to remain relevant and viable as their consumers continue to move online. Merrell resides in San Antonio, Texas with his wife and two daughters. Merrell holds a Bachelors degree in Management Information Systems and a Minor in Economics.

Tim Porter is an editor and writer with an extensive background in print and web journalism. Porter is associate director of Tomorrow's Workforce, a newsroom development project, and author of First Draft, a blog on quality journalism and newsroom innovation. Formerly, he was an assistant managing editor with the San Francisco Examiner, editor of Examiner.com and editor of the Richmond Independent.

Mark Ramsey is president of hear2.0, Inc., the new audio strategy firm, and Mercury Radio Research, Inc., a leading strategic consultant and research firm for Radio broadcasters and Satellite Radio, Based in San Diego, Mercury’s clients have included CBS Radio, Greater Media, Inc., Saga Communications, and Sirius Satellite Radio, among others. Ramsey also publishes the Radio Marketing Nexus blog RadioMarketingNexus.com, which covers the radio industry. Ramsey is author of Fresh Air: Marketing Gurus on Radio, an essential handbook to marketing success in the radio industry and allied industries in the years to come.

Howard Rheingold and notable colleagues Jim Downing, Bryan Alexander, Emily Turrettini, Gerrit Visser, Sam Rose, Roland Picquepaille and others blog at SmartMobs.com about the ideas and issues raised in Howard's important 2002 book "Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution". The unifying theme of the book and blog: how mobile communications, pervasive computing, and cooperative strategies lead to new forms of collective action politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Howard is one of the world's foremost authorities on the social implications of technology and has, over the past twenty years, traveled around the world, observing and writing about emerging trends in computing, communications, and culture. One of the creators and former founding executive editor of HotWired, he has served as editor of The Whole Earth Review, editor-in-chief of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, and on-line host for The Well. His other books include "The Virtual Community", "Virtual Reality", and "Tools for Thought".He lives in Mill Valley, California.

Douglas Rushkoff, winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. Douglas, who blogs here, sees "media" as the landscape where this interaction takes place, and "literacy" as the ability to participate consciously in it. His ten best-selling books on new media and popular culture have been translated to over thirty languages. They include Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, and Coercion, winner of the Marshall Mcluhan Award for best media book. His commentaries air on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR's All Things Considered, and have appeared in publications from The New York Times to Time magazine. He wrote the first syndicated column on cyberculture for The New York Times and Guardian of London, as well as a column on wireless for The Feature and a new column for the music and culture magazine, Arthur.

Jay Small is a veteran "big picture" new media executive, product manager, information designer, journalist and Internet innovator. His professional career began in 1985 as a copy editor, but Small started learning about media much earlier -- growing up in the third generation of a family of small-town newspaper executives. Small is director of online operations and audience for the newspaper division of E.W. Scripps Co. Working with 14 newspaper-based sites, he oversees content management, project management, audience development and analytics, and enterprise-scale projects such as local search services, RSS toolkits and consumer Member Center applications. He also operates Small Initiatives, a consultancy and Weblog advancing Internet customer experience and strategic media development. SI clients include the Newspaper Association of America, the Lumina Foundation for Education and the American Press Institute.

Chris Willis is a principal of Hypergene Media Solutions, a media consulting and design firm. He formally worked as a user interface/experience designer for Ericsson Wireless Internet Group. He along with Shayne Bowman writes regularly about collaborative media and participatory journalism on Hypergene MediaBlog, and is the co-author of the whitepaper, "We Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information". He lives in Salt Lake City, UT and is Creative Director of Ancestry.com.

Steve Yelvington, who blogs at Yelvington.com, is an Internet strategist for Morris DigitalWorks, the online division of Morris Communications, based in Augusta, Ga., and is known as a strong advocate of participative community journalism. He has been working on Internet projects since 1993 and has spoken on new media at conferences throughout the United States, in Europe, and in China. He was the founding editor of StarTribune.com in Minneapolis and executive editor of the Cox Interactive Media network, and he has an extensive background in newspaper reporting and editing. He received the 2001 EPpy for Outstanding Individual Achievement and is on the board of directors of the NAA New Media Federation.