Paul Ford

Paul Ford is also one of the most prominent and in-demand literary voices covering technology, as a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, BusinessWeek, MIT Technology Review, and NPR.
Aside from his unimpeacable technical credentials-Ford was one of the first bloggers, starting his website Ftrain.com in 1997, an era before the terrible word "blog" was ever coined-he is also a novelist and a one-time editor at Harper's.
Today, he works as a high-profile web consultant a well-respected technologist/programmer who is oft-invited to speak and present at conferences. Ford teaches at the MFA program in Interaction Design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is an adviser to hot web startups like Medium, Readability, and Kickstarter.