Stand Up Justin

I'm even more entertaining in person than I am on the web!

Most news of the net concerns the business and commercial side of web publishing.
What is lacking is online personality - who are the people spending hours of their day making non-profit pages, seizing this new medium to spread a message, or simply have a good time?

Since January 1994, I have been writing, editing, producing, publishing Links from the Underground - a mix of website reviews, tutorials, articles, and autobiographical content.
Besides my personal page, I witnessed the construction of one of the web's largest content ventures. In June 1994, when Wired was still doing web shovelware, I was intern in their Online division. We soon launched HotWired, where I was a founding member of the editorial staff, working closely with then Executive Editor Howard Rheingold. I left HotWired in January 1995, to return to college and continue work on my page.
Today I have over 15,000 daily readers, without sponsorship or fees. My page has been cited in a broad range of print; including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, New Yorker, Playboy, Wired, Internet World, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
I am 20 years old, extremely excited about the future of this medium.
I have published a number of evangelistic tracts at my site, motivating netsurfers to pursue personal publishing. I spoke to the Bay Area Internet Users Group in November of 1994. At the San Francisco stop of Lollapalooza, I gave a squirmin' rap drawl performance of personal publishing potential. At college I teach two classes a month on web site construction.
In June 1995, I was the youngest speaker at a Journalism and News Media Think Tank at the Rand Corporation. There was a group of thirty media executives in the audience, the other panelists were experts in various fields; Internet academicians, business folk, publishers, writers, military men. It was an incredibly stimulating opportunity.
I am interested in speaking to anyone, anywhere, at any time about the web. Having been involved in commercial web ventures, as well as personal publishing, I can speak to either.
We know the web is changing the world; I have spent the last year and half exploring what it should look like.

Speaker pitch in the third person

Notable gigs to date:

Electronic Publishing Class New York University February 1996: Dave Steuer was teachin' here, asked me to come down and give his folks a little perspective.
The Lab at Lollapalooza '95 August 18, 1995: I pitched myself to these folks, they dug me and put me up.
SIGKids Digital Circus, SIGGRAPH August 8, 1995: I gave a few minutes patter on personal publishing, broadcast over the MBone. That night my appendix burst.
News Industries & Journalism/Preparing for 2010 Think Tank June 13, 1995
Web Publishing Bay Area Internet Users Group November 9, 1994: Estimated thirty people in an unconditioned basement in downtown San Francisco. I gave over an hour and a half long talk, and people asked questions. Nobody seemed to fall asleep, indeed, some would have stayed longer.
Graduation Francis Parker School June 12, 1993: Seven hundred parents, teachers and students of my high school. I was elected by my classmates to speak - quite an honour.; Somebody told me I should be in congress after they heard my speech. That's a thought... It'd be a hoot.