Christopher Locke

Christopher Locke (born November 12, 1947) is a widely read blogger, author and the editor of the Entropy Gradient Reversals e-newsletter since 1995. Starting in 2005, he has been writing the Mystic Bourgeoisie blog.

Named in a 2001 Financial Times Group survey as one of the "top 50 business thinkers in the world," Christopher Locke (aka RageBoy, aka Chief Blogging Officer, aka Kat Herding) is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual, and author of Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices and The Bombast Transcripts: Rants and Screeds of RageBoy.

He has worked at the Japanese government's Fifth generation computer project, at Ricoh, at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, at MCI, at IBM, and as a consultant/blogger for HighBeam Research. Locke has written for Wired, Release 1.0, The Industry Standard, Harvard Business Review and many other publications. His work has been covered by Fast Company, Advertising Age, Business Week, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, The Economist, and The Financial Times.

Articles about Chris Locke

• A Lesson from the Ancients, Wired Magazine, March 2000
• Get Personal to Market on Web, USA Today, December 2001
• From One-Way Marketing to Cyber Dialogue - Business Week, April 2000

Articles by Chris Locke

• Feb 2000 issue of Esther Dyson's Release 1.0 (PDF)
• 1994 Internet World - MecklerWeb
• 1997 End of Your Tether Computing - Forbes
• Ticket to Write - Industry Standard - Sept 1998
• Fear and Loathing on the Web: "Gonzo" Marketing Thrives - Industry Standard, July 1998
• Cheap Thrills For The Beer Budget Blogger
• The Customer as Co-Developer - Information Week - December 2000
• Origin of Species, Or, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Life as a Machine - Wired - June 2002

Interviews with Chris Locke

• Tony Goodson Interviews Locke 2009
• Marcus Brown Interviews Locke 2009
• Nicole Simon Interviews Locke 2007
• Frank Paynter Interviews Locke 2003

Author's books

• The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
• Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices
• The Bombast Transcripts: Rants and Screeds of Rageboy

External links

• Kat Herding/Facebook
• Chris Locke's Weblog
• Mystic Bourgeoisie
• EGR
• The Cluetrain Manifesto Online
• Ad Hominem @ Corante
• Gonzo Engaged
• Chief Blogging Officer
• The EGR List
• The Cluetrain List