Speaker Bio

Christian Crumlish

Christian Crumlish has been developing and writing about shared information spaces since 1994. He is the curator of the Yahoo! pattern library. He has consulted with startups and Fortune 500 companies, including FedEx, Kodak, Visa, Sprint, Charles Schwab, Safeway, Sun, SanDisk, BEA, HTC, Aramark, MediaMelon, Syklist, and GoFish. He is a member of BayCHI and is on the board of directors of the Information Architecture Institute. He is the author of, most recently, The Power of Many: How the Living Web is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everday Life, as well as The Internet for Busy People, Dreamweaver Savvy, A Guided Tour of the Internet and The Internet Dictionary. Christian earned his bachelor of arts in philosophy from Princeton University in 1986. He is the host of the Blog conference on The Well and contributes to You're It! a blog on tagging and writes a number of other semi-obscure blogs. He lives in Oakland, California with his fiancée, Briggs, and his cat, Fraidy.