The New Stack Makers
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Alex Williams
Alex Williams has hosted 326 episodes.
Alex Williams is founder and editor in chief of The New Stack. He's a longtime technology journalist who did stints at TechCrunch, SiliconAngle and what is now known as ReadWrite. Alex has been a journalist since the late 1980s, starting at the Augusta Chronicle in 1989 after completing his master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Early in his career, he reported for newspapers in New York and Oregon, worked for a magazine writing about home textiles (ask him about it some time) and spent a year as a television business news anchor. Alex's online career began in 2003 when he did a web event called RSS WinterFest, which was followed by Podcast Hotel, an event all about the intersection of art and commerce and the impact digital media has on independent culture. While in college, Alex played baseball in France, which led him to writing stories of his experiences, and eventually a career in journalism.
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Swapnil Bhartiya
Swapnil Bhartiya has hosted 226 episodes.
Swapnil is a journalist and writer who has been covering Linux & Open Source for 10 years. He is also a science fiction writer whose stories have been broadcast on Indian radio and published in leading Indian magazines.
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TC Currie
TC Currie has hosted 220 episodes.
TC Currie is a journalist, writer, data geek, poet, body positive activist and occasional lingerie model. After spending 25 years in software development working with data movement and accessibility, she wrote her first novel during National Novel Writing Month and fell in love with writing. Several of her tech articles have appeared on the front page of SlashDot. Her essays have been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Power of Gratitude, and won the silver medal at the Solas Travel Awards. TC now splits her time between writing journalist articles, personal essays, reviews, poetry, and finishing her mystery novel “Runaway Rembrandt.” Her collection of Transformational Poetry, “The Empty Promises of Plastic Wrap” is being turned into a one-woman show. She’s glad to be back in the Bay Area after a 6-month digital nomad trip of the US. This is a huge and amazing country, but there really is no place like home.
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Libby Clark
Libby Clark has hosted 210 episodes.
Libby Clark is Editorial Director at The New Stack, former Content Marketing Manager at The Linux Foundation, and a longtime science, technology and business journalist based in Portland, OR.
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Scott M. Fulton III
Scott M. Fulton III has hosted 231 episodes.
First there was the wheel, and you have to admit, the wheel was cool. After that, you had the boat and the hamburger, and technology was chugging right along with that whole evolution thing. Then there was the Web, and you had to wonder, after the wheel and the hamburger, how did things make such a sudden left turn and get so messed up so quickly? Displaying all the symptoms of having spent 30 years in the technology news business, Scott Fulton (often known as Scott M. Fulton, III, formerly known as D. F. Scott, sometimes known as that loud guy in the corner making the hand gestures) has taken it upon himself to move evolution back to a more sensible track. Stay in touch and see how far he gets.
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Alex Handy
Alex Handy has hosted 64 episodes.
A 20 year veteran technology journalist, Alex Handy cut his teeth covering the launch of the first iMac. His work has appeared in Wired, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and The Austin American Statesman. He is also the founder and director of the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (themade.org) a non-profit video game museum located in Oakland.
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B. Cameron Gain
B. Cameron Gain has hosted 54 episodes.
B. Cameron Gain’s obsession with computers began when he hacked a Space Invaders console to play all day for 25 cents at the local video arcade in the early 1980s. He then started writing code for very elementary games on the family Commodore 64 and programming in BASIC on the high school PC. He has since become a long-time and steadfast Linux advocate and loves to write about IT and tech. His byline has appeared in Wired, PC World, CIO, Technology Review, Popular Science, and Automotive News.
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Kiran Oliver
Kiran Oliver has hosted 161 episodes.
Kiran "Rin/CK" Oliver is the Podcast Producer for The New Stack, overseeing the daily flow for both audio and video episodes of our flagship shows The New Stack Makers, The New Stack Analysts, and The New Stack Context.
Kiran currently is learning to program in JavaScript, Unity, and Ren'Py, having also earned a BA in Communications from SNHU. They enjoy discussing all things open source, with a particular focus on diversity in tech, improving hiring pipelines, and removing accessibility barriers to learning programming.
When not immersed in writing sci-fi and fantasy novels, Kiran can be found spending time with their pets, at the gym with their wife, or gaming on PlayStation 4 and PC.
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Benjamin Ball
Benjamin Ball has hosted 155 episodes.
Director of Marketing at The New Stack, product owner of all things ebooks and publications. A growing and knowledgeable content producer, technical editor, developer marketer, and community manager with a passion for communicating between IT professionals and the rest of the organization, Ben is always trying to position himself as an intermediary voice between engineers and their managers, executives, marketers, customers, and users. He highly values clarity in communication, and in finding ways to connect technical professionals with resources, communities, and networks.
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Joab Jackson
Joab Jackson has hosted 157 episodes.
Joab Jackson is the managing editor for The New Stack, overseeing the daily flow of stories for the site. He has covered pretty much all aspects of information technology over the past two decades. He particularly enjoys delving into the hidden worlds of deep infrastructure and the curious habits of software developers. He maintains his own Website using open standards and open source software.