About Us

Lisa Williams is founder and editor of Placeblogger. She also runs H2otown, a placeblog and online community for Watertown, MA. Contact Lisa | LinkedIn profile.

Advisors

Dan Gillmor is the executive director of the Center for Citizen Media and author of We The Media: Grassroots Journalism for the People, by the People.

Jay Rosen is a professor of journalism at New York University and the author of the weblog PressThink. His newest project is NewAssignment.net.

Susan Mernit is Senior Director, Product Development at Yahoo! and writes an influential media/tech watcher weblog, Susan Mernit's Blog.

Technical team

Boris Mann is one of the founders of Bryght and led the technical team in designing, setting up and creating new software to make Placeblogger work. Working with Boris is David Ayre, Richard Eriksson, Colin Brumelle, Roland Tanglao, and Kris Krug.

The original design treatment for this site was created by Andrew DeVigal of DeVigal Design. Andrew is currently Multimedia Editor at The New York Times.

Thanks to: Evan Williams, Dave Winer, Tish Grier, Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort, Jory DesJardins, Ross Karchner, The Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, the Berkman Thursday Blog Group and The Center for Citizen Media.