Keynotes

Steven Berlin Johnson
Best-Selling Author: Interface Culture: How New
Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate
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Steven Berlin Johnson is the best-selling author of five books on the real-world impact of cutting-edge developments in science, technology, and media, including the prophetic Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate and Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter. A contributing editor to Wired magazine, Distinguished Writer in Residence at the NYU Department of Journalism, and co-creator of FEED.com, Plastic.com, and Outside.in, he was named one of Newsweek's "Fifty People Who Matter Most on the Internet."

Chris White
Founder of TopFive.com
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TopFive.com is the premier online site for top 10 lists, publishing since 1994. TopFive is a collaborative process that consists of one moderator and over 500 hand-picked comedy writers. Every day a different topic is sent to the writers, they send back their ideas, and the moderator compiles the best ones into a finished list. Brand new lists are published every weekday. Celebrities who have guest-moderated lists include: Michael Moore, Alex Trebek, Mark Cuban, Smash Mouth, Scott Adams, and Ed Begley Jr., to name a few.

Chris will be collaborating throughout the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit onsite, compiling daily lists pertinent to the content and the experiences being shared by the attendees onsite.

Alex Wright
Information architect for the New York Times
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Alex Wright has led IA initiatives for IBM, Harvard University, Yahoo!, Sun Microsystems, and the Internet Archive. Author of the new book Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages, which explores the history of human knowledge systems and the problem of information overload, his articles have appeared in Salon.com, Harvard Magazine, and the Christian Science Monitor.

Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit