Xeni Jardin is a tech culture journalist. She is a partner, contributor, and co-editor of the award winning blog Boing Boing. She is executive producer and host of the Webby-honored program Boing Boing Video (formerly Boing Boing TV). She also contributes to broadcast, online, and print venues including *Wired* and NPR.

Peter Kaufman is a writer, teacher, and documentary producer who works at MIT Open Learning. He is author of "Severe Information Disorder"

Pamela Harris is a documentary filmmaker based in Oakland, California. Pam has worked in the documentary field for more than eight years. She was one of four co-directors on the film *Waging a Living*, a PBS documentary about low-wage working families, and oversaw educational outreach and engagement for the Oscar-nominated *Long Night’s Journey into Day* about South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She has also produced and directed a short documentary about Allensworth, a historically black town in California that faces the threat of encroachment by agribusiness.

Dean Jansen is the outreach director for the Participatory Culture Foundation (or PCF), which works to build a fairer, more open, and more democratic media space. PCF is also a founder of the Open Video Alliance, a coalition of organizations, companies, and individuals that are working to create open tools, workflows, and licensing systems for online video.

My name is Jenny Attiyeh, and I began my career in 1987 in London as a freelance reporter on the arts for the BBC World Service Radio. I remember my first interview for “Meridian”, as the program I worked for was called. It was with Placido Domingo, and I’ve never been so nervous since. After my work permit ran out, I returned to Los Angeles, my home city, and continued as an arts reporter for KCRW, an NPR station in Santa Monica. While there, I reported and produced an award-winning documentary on Japanese-American internment during World War II. Shortly after, I was accepted to a National Public Radio residency, which brought me to Washington, D.C. and to WBUR, an NPR station in Boston to report stories for NPR’s Performance Today. I later attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. After that, I remained in New York City for 9 years, during which time I worked primarily as a reporter on television and radio. I hosted and produced a weekly arts and culture segment for WNYC TV, a PBS station, until it went out of business (thanks to then Mayor Giuliani, who sold the station). Before the lights went out, I managed to produce a mini-documentary on the making of a Philip Glass opera, “Les Enfants Terribles.” I worked next as a correspondent for a nationally televised PBS program called “Freedom Speaks” which focused on the media, until it too was taken off the air. (I detect a pattern here…) In between gigs, I also worked as a reporter for WBAI radio, a Pacifica station, and WNYC radio, an NPR station, covering local politics and the arts. I then moved to Maine, where I lived by the harbor in Kittery, and worked as a reporter for New Hampshire Public Television. There, I covered the ‘99/2000 New Hampshire presidential primary season, and interviewed the major presidential candidates. I also participated as a panelist in nationally televised presidential debates, hosted by Peter Jennings and Tim Russert. Following the conclusion of the New Hampshire primary season, I moved to Boston, where I did freelance writing on academics, the 2004 presidential campaign and the single life, among other subjects. From this base, in early 2005, I launched ThoughtCast.