Chris Pirillo

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Chris Pirillo at Gnomedex 2005

Chris Pirillo (born July 26, 1973 in Des Moines, Iowa) is the founder and maintainer of Lockergnome. He spent two years hosting the TechTV (now known as G4) television program Call for Help before parting ways from the company. He also hosted the first annual Call-for-Help-a-Thon on TechTV.

He lives in Seattle with his fiancée and business partner Latthanapon "Ponzi" Indharasophang and their two dogs Wicket and Pixie.

1 Gnomedex
2 Books
3 Blogging
4 Education
5 External links

[edit] Gnomedex

Every year, Pirillo hosts Gnomedex, a technology conference made for geeks.

[edit] Books

He has authored three books: Poor Richard's Email Publishing, Online! The Book (with John C. Dvorak), and Lockergnome's Computer Tips Compendium. He writes a monthly column for CPU magazine (Sandhills Publishing), and hosts a live Internet broadcast aptly titled The Chris Pirillo Show.

[edit] Blogging

Pirillo is passionate about blogging, RSS, and Google AdSense. His personal website is often ranked number one under the search term "Chris" on Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. He is friends with several influential members in the blogging and podcasting communities such as Dave Winer, Adam Curry and Robert Scoble.

The Pirillo Effect, coined by Mike Flynn ([1], [2]) states that if you say Chris Pirillo's name at least three times in your article or on your blog, Chris will appear and comment in some fashion. The effect was later referenced, although incorrectly sourced, in a Seattle Times article. This effect was the inspiration for the Joe Anderson Effect [3].