Nora Young is a writer and broadcaster, who pursues her passion for technology, culture, and armchair sociology on public radio, on television, in print, and online. She was founding host and a producer of CBC Radio’s Definitely not the Opera and more recently, has created miniseries for CBC, and documentaries for shows such as Ideas. She is technology columnist for CBC Radio and CBC Newsworld, and a frequent contributor to the Toronto Star. Her current passion is the relationship between mainstream media and social media, which she explores as an avid podcaster (foursevens.com/thesniffer) and a lazy blogger, (www.norayoung.vox.com). Nora is currently developing a new series for CBC Radio.
Simon Pulsifer is an Ottawa native whose nickname is “the king of Wikipedia.” He is one of the leading contributors to Wikipedia, with some 96,000 edits to the online encyclopedia. Wikipedia is today one of the ten most visited websites on the Internet, and is one of the most prominent examples of user generated content. To date the Wikipedia community has written over six million encyclopedia articles in some 200 languages. Having been involved with the project since close to its inception in 2001, he also sits on the Arbitration Committee that governs the English Wikipedia. Simon has also been one of the public faces of Wikipedia, having been profiled in news stories across Canada and the world. Originally from Ottawa, Simon studied history at the University of Toronto and today works in Toronto for an assistive technology company.
Jeff Howe is the guy who came up with the term “crowdsourcing,” in a story of the same name he wrote for Wired magazine. Jeff is a contributing editor at Wired, and is currently writing a book about crowdsourcing. He also blogs at http://crowdsourcing.typepad.com/. Before coming to Wired he was a senior editor at Inside.com and a writer at the Village Voice. In his fifteen years as a journalist he has traveled around the world working on stories ranging from the impending water crisis in Central Asia to the implications of gene patenting. He has written for Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, Mother Jones and numerous other publications. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Alysia
Abbott, their daughter Annabel Rose and a miniature black lab named Clementine.