Ben Brown (blogger)

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Ben Brown (born January 25, 1978 in San Francisco, California, USA), once married to Ani Moller, is a co-founder of the social networking website Consumating and is also known as the Internet Rockstar[1], in part due to an article written by Adam Mathes that coined the term Google bomb. Raised in Derwood, MD, he began attending the University of Maryland in 1996 but did not complete his degree in English and instead dropped out in 2000 in order to pursue personal interests.

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[edit] Publishing

Ben has been a co-founder of several zines including FlabJab, TEETH[2], and Über[3]. His personal website http://benbrown.com/ has been in existence since 1997[4] and has at times served as an outlet for his creative works of fiction, as a personal blog, and also as a connecting reference for his software and literary publications.

In 2001 he co-founded[5] an "ultra-micro-mini" publishing company with James Stegall named So New Media and used it to create and publish the literary magazine Words! Words! Words![6] as well as the public performance venue Bookpunk[7].

[edit] Internet

In 1999, Brown co-founded the Deepleap website which provided an extensible utility for searching and interacting with various websites, social bookmarking, and eventually user-generated XML feeds for creating custom web applications. The site shut down in late 2000 for financial reasons[8].

In 2001, he moved to New Zealand where he was on the team that created an online tool for the certification of milk and dairy exports for the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. While in New Zealand, he was also hired to write episodes of a popular children's television show, Squirt[9].

In 2002, he and Adam Mathes created the Personals sub-section http://personals.uber.nu/ on their zine Über, which served as the initial foundation for and was eventually renamed to Consumating.

Ben served as founding editor[10] for the Austinist social event blog beginning in early 2005. In late December of that year, he announced[11] the CNET purchase of Consumating, ceased work with Austinist, and moved to San Francisco to work on Consumating with Josh Goldberg.

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ As of 2006-08-11, a Google search for internet rockstar returns over 4 million entries. Ben Brown occupies the top 9.
  2. ^ Partial archive of the zine TEETH, as provided by the Internet Archive. Retrieved on 2006-08-11.
  3. ^ Partial archive of the zine Über, as provided by the Internet Archive. Retrieved on 2006-08-11.
  4. ^ Prior to 1997, Ben used the FlabJab site for his personal page, according to a WebbieWorld interview by Mark Connell with him, circa 1999. Retrieved on 2006-08-11.
  5. ^ Bookpunks: So New Media and their very serious stapler. Bookslut (2002-10-01). Retrieved on 2006-08-11.
  6. ^ Words! Words! Words! continues in print but is now edited by Amy Rainey.
  7. ^ Partial archive of Bookpunk, as provided by the Internet Archive. Retrieved on 2006-08-11.
  8. ^ Goodnight, Deepleap.. Bryan Boyer, co-founder of Deepleap (2000-08-22). Retrieved on 2006-08-11.
  9. ^ Squirt (TV) at the Internet Movie Database
  10. ^ An Excess Of Civic Pride. Austinist (2005-03-08). Retrieved on 2006-08-11.
  11. ^ Consumating is now part of CNET Networks. Consumating (2005-12-05). Retrieved on 2006-08-11.

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