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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

I got my first Internet-connected account as a student at MIT. They assigned logins based on initials. I've been tbc on the 'net since 1981, so I see no reason to change now. :)

I'm an early adopter earning equity in the startup InfoBitt. I hope you'll have a look. It's founded by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who hopes to do for the news what Wikipedia did for encyclopedias.

Today the website [1] requires you to sign up for an account. Public launch is TBA. But Larry has published his vision in a public essay, "How we can organize the news" [2, 3]. newsweek.com wrote about InfoBitt last week [4].

I Twitter at [5] and produce podcasts with transcripts at SoundCloud [6] part-time for InfoBitt. I deliver the top 10 stories of the day (Sunday through Thursday late in the evening) in less than two minutes.

I was born in Greeley, raised in West Linn, Oregon, and have lived in the Pikes Peak region since 1979. Pets are indoor cats who wear bells and ID tags with a number to call. I'm tech-savvy and willing to give free advice. I'm also a science and philosophy geek. Neighbors who are into public key cryptography may be interested to know that my PGP fingerprint is 1E4AF729D5CEFFD0.

[1] http://infobitt.com
[2] long version: http://larrysanger.org/2014/11/infobitt-long/
[3] short version: http://larrysanger.org/2014/11/infobitt-short/
[4] http://www.newsweek.com/wikipedia-news-becomes-open-public-292613
[5] http://twitter.com/infobitt
[6] https://soundcloud.com/infobitt/tracks