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Peter Balogh

Peter Balogh is a Flash artist, animator, and writer who lives in New York City.

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Dan Benjamin

Dan Benjamin is a business strategist, programmer, writer, and UI designer. He publishes his articles on his blog, danbenjamin.com. He is the CTO of Rails Machine, and the co-creator of Cork’d (acquired by WLTV). Dan built the publishing system used here at A List Apart.

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Scott Berkun

Scott Berkun is the best selling author of Making Things Happen, The Myths of Innovation, and Confessions of a Public Speaker. He runs a popular blog on creative thinking, and other curious entertainments, at www.scottberkun.com.

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David Berlow

David Berlow entered the type industry in 1978 as a letter designer for the respected Mergenthaler Linotype type foundry. He joined Bitstream, a newly formed all-digital foundry in 1982. Berlow left Bitstream in 1989, to found The Font Bureau, Inc. with Roger Black. Font Bureau has developed more than 2,000 new and revised type designs for publications, retail distribution and for software developers like Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corporation.

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Mark Bernstein

Mark Bernstein is chief scientist at Eastgate Systems, publishers of Tinderbox, a personal content management assistant that’s great for personal web work.

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Carrie Bickner

Carrie Bickner AKA Rogue Librarian is the Director of Education Outreach at The New York Public Library, author of Web Design on a Shoestring, and co-author of the NYPL Online Style Guide.

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Mark Birbeck

Mark is managing director of Backplane Ltd., a London-based company involved in a number of RDFa/linked data projects for UK government departments. He is the original proposer of RDFa, and has spoken on the subject at various events.

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Alex Bischoff

Alex Bischoff is a front-end developer based in Dallas, Texas. When it comes to coding, he finds his interest piqued by the likes of accessibility, semantics, and DOM Scripting. In real life, he enjoys photography and kicking back to tracks from In Flames and Nevermore.

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Niklas Bivald

Niklas Bivald is a Swedish student who spends his time studying, making websites and e-commerce systems and keeping a bunch of projects up and running. Yes, Sweden is in Europe, and no, we don’t have polar bears.

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Margot Bloomstein

Margot Bloomstein practices content strategy and other dark arts of rhetoric and design with clients of ISITE Design. Find Margot at ISITE, on Twitter @mbloomstein, or at dog parks in the greater Boston area.

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Jason Blumer

Jason M. Blumer, CPA.CITP, CFE is the chief innovation officer of Blumer & Associates, CPAs, PC, an accountancy and consultancy CPA firm to the creative industries. He wears flip flops and jeans to work, says “dude” a lot, and often works in coffee shops with headphones blaring the latest Bloomberg podcasts. Blumer can be found at http://www.blumercpas.com.

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Nate Bolt

Nate Bolt is the CEO of Bolt | Peters User Experience, co-author of Remote Research, (Rosenfeld, 2010), and creator of Ethnio. He also builds remote robotic dog treat dispensers and makes odd videos. You can find him all up on the internet via @boltron.

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Jina Bolton

Jina Bolton is a visual interaction designer working and residing in Silicon Valley. She likes making pretty websites, and then she likes writing and speaking about it. Jina is learning Italian, and she digs sushi & robots.

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Scott Boms

Scott Boms has been designing on paper, wood, plastic, metal and that ‘ol web thing for around 15 years, most recently as principal at Wishingline, working with clients such as PayPal, Masterfile, and Toronto Life Magazine while somehow still finding time to write, take pictures, perform and release records and actually have a life away from the internet.

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Bert Bos

Bert Bos proposed and implemented his own style sheet language before joining forces with Håkon at W3C in 1995. He was the co-author of the original CSS specification and launched W3C's internationalization activities. He is currently the Style Sheets activity lead at W3C.

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Maurizio Boscarol

Maurizio Boscarol is an Italy-based usability, accessibility, and CSS design consultant and teacher. He runs usabile.it and has published the book Ecologia Dei Siti Web. His sometimes iconoclastic attitude may be produced by the fact that he’s a satirical cartoonist and an illustrator by night.

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Mark Boulton

Mark Boulton is a graphic designer, writer and novice bonsai grower from the UK. He runs his own tiny design studio, Mark Boulton Design, and can be found regularly harping on about traditional graphic design theory on his blog.

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Cennydd Bowles

Cennydd Bowles is a user experience designer for Clearleft. Like all of us, he spends too much time online, but occasionally emerges to play guitar and correct misspellings of his name. He blogs at Ineffable.

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Douglas Bowman

Founder and principal of Stopdesign, Douglas Bowman specializes in simple, clean, forward-thinking design. He constantly challenges and pushes the limits of what’s possible using web standards. Douglas was the grand architect behind the well-known redesign of Wired.

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Wayne Bremser

Wayne Bremser first became involved in network communication at the age of 10 in 1981 with VAX machines. He has been involved professionally since 1994 as a journalist, developer and teacher. Personal sites 1995 include harlem.org.

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Harry Brignull

Harry Brignull is a senior user experience designer at Clearleft in Brighton, England. In his career he has worked on a diverse range of design problems, from iPad apps to self-install broadband packages. He is @harrybr on twitter, and he also blogs at 90percentofeverything.com.

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Ryan Brill

Ryan Brill has a passion for design, especially when XHTML and CSS are involved. He’s fully devoted to doing his part to push the web in the right direction, not only when writing for his blog, but also when developing sites through his web development company, Infinity Web Design.

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Mike Brittain

Mike Brittain is a senior web developer and architect at Heavy.com. He lives in New York City, where he spends far too much time and money planning for his next big ski trip.

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Mandy Brown

Mandy Brown is co-founder and editor for A Book Apart, a contributing editor for A List Apart, and Communications Director at Typekit. She writes about the reading experience at A Working Library.

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Tim Brown

Tim Brown is Type Manager for Typekit. He studies, promotes, and advances the craft of web typography on a daily basis, shares what he knows at Nice Web Type, and helps web designers with tools like Web Font Specimen and Modular Scale. Follow Tim on Twitter @nicewebtype

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Sunni Brown

Sunni Brown is a business owner, creative director, speaker, and co-author of one of Amazon’s Top 100 Business Books in C&I titled GameStorming: A Playbook for Rule-breakers, Innovators and Changemakers. She’s best known for her large-scale live content visualizations at meetings and events, and she is also the leader of The Doodle Revolution—a growing effort to debunk the myth that doodling is a distraction. She plans to teach the world how to master “strategic doodling” in her 2nd book, The Doodle Revolution.

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Tiffany B. Brown

Tiffany B. Brown is a member of the Opera Software Developer Relations team, where she advocates for an open, interoperable web. She lives in Los Angeles, loves New Orleans, and mixes a mean Manhattan.

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Marlene Bruce

Marlene Bruce is officially the Sales Baron (but the wearer of many hats, including webmaster) for Looney Labs, and a fine artist and writer. She is proud to be a co-founder and administrator of, and contributor to, evolt.org.

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Laura Brunow Miner

Laura Brunow Miner is the founder/editor/designer of Pictorymag.com and founder of Phootcamp.com. She loves photography, design, and community editorial.

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Carlos Bueno

Carlos Bueno is a software engineer with Xoopit / Photos for Yahoo! Mail. He writes occasionally about overlooked aspects of internationalization, performance, and security. He lives in San Francisco.

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Paul Burton

Paul Burton is the founder of 16toads Design , an award-winning Atlanta-based independent web consultancy. Paul is an artist, illustrator, public speaker, a tireless community advocate, mentor, and lead cheerleader behind stopworkforhire.com. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia and spends his days dreaming of snow.

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Jim Byrne

Jim Byrne is the Director of the Making Connections Unit, working for a more accessible Web since 1996. A former disability information officer and trainer with the Wellbeing Initiative, he lectures on research methods and statistics at Glasgow Caledonian University, and takes snapshots in his spare time.

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