Wolf watch: Dan Colarusso, Managing Editor of Silicon Alley Insider

 

Dan has been a business and financial journalist for more than a decade. He was a columnist at TheStreet.com from 1997-2001 and Business Editor and City Editor at the New York Post for the next five years. Dan has written for The New York Times, Barron’s, Institutional Investor and Investment Dealers’ Digest, and is a frequent guest on CNBC.  In a year at the helm at Portfolio.com, he took the site from unnoticed to 3 million readers a month.

 

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/dan-colarusso

 

[Editor’s note: OK – so Dan doesn’t appear to be a bear in the generally regarded definition of the term, but over at Geek Bear Blog we inclusive! We don’t hate. We congratulate! That’s why we are introducing a new regularly recurring section: Wolf Watch! Stay tuned…]

 

Erik Hersman, Woofy African

As a Blogger (AfriGadget, WhiteAfrican), geek and power networker (and geekbear), Erik Hersman is a key member of the African blog revolution. As a builder of Ushahidi, he helps expand the power of everyday people. He recently spoke at power conference, TED (the same one that lady bear, Rosie O'Donnell begged bestie Kathy Griffin for tickets).

Here is is talking about the power of texting and GoogleMaps in the context of the Kenyan crisis.



More on Erik here: http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/erik_hersman.html
and here: http://whiteafrican.com/
and here: http://www.afrigadget.com/
and here: http://www.ushahidi.com/

[Source: Ted.com]

Professional Blogger/Vlogger Shay Carl

How we missed this woofy internet celeb, I’ll never know.

 

There’s nothing better than a hilarious, furry, bearded real life dad. You can check out his videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/shaycarl

 

Looks like he will have his own professional website up soon.

 

Green is sexy and so is Prof. Andrew Hargadon

Andrew Hargadon is a woofy Professor of Technology Management at the Graduate School of Management at University of California, Davis and author of How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate (Harvard Business School Press 2003).

 

He’s a nationally recognized expert on innovation and was recently profiled in Fast Company for his work on getting major companies like Chevron and Wal-mart to check out more energy efficient technologies.

 

Read the article here: http://origin-www.fastcompany.com/magazine/135/the-green-lantern.html?page=0%2C0

 

You can learn more about Andrew in his blog here: http://andrewhargadon.com/

 

Stéphan Dubé, News Editor/Graphic Designer

We think Stéphan is hot, hot, hot! WOOF!

 

[Photo credit: http://www.cgchannel.com/static/contactus.jsp]

 

About Stéphan Dubé

Stéphan has had diverse experience in the CG business. Starting as a graphic designer, he made the move to CG approximately 10 years ago, troubleshooting complex issues for clientele as a technical support specialist for Softimage in Montreal. From there he worked in television production on shows such as Galidor and Fred the Cavemen. He then returned to technical support, this time at Autodesk (formerly known as Discreet). Stéphan's desire to gain experience in production led him to Ubisoft where he worked on video games as a level artist and a UI Designer. Stéphan continues to work in production on a contract base, and providing CG Channel readers with up to date news and coverage in the 3D industry.

 

Oh and he’s on Facebook too:

http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephan-Dube/739825545

 

Apparently he is a fan of Madonna, but we’ll forgive him since he also likes Nasty Pig products. YU-UM!

Alexey Pajitnov, Creator of Tetris

Alexey Pajitnov.

Creator of Tetris, 'nuff said.

He's kept that Russian bearded thing all along,it seems.

Sure, he's also a contributing creator for  all official Tetris games
ever since.

Alex St. John, Chairman, WildTangent

Check out this ‘gar and stache daddy! Woof!

 

Alex St. John is Chairman and Co-Founder of WildTangent, a growing online game network that has partnerships with US PC manufacturers like HP, Dell, Toshiba and Gateway.

 

About Alex

Alex St. John co-founded WildTangent, Inc. and serves as its Chairman. Prior to founding WildTangent in 1998, St. John was responsible for the development of Microsoft Corp.'s multimedia strategy. St. John was one of the principal creators of Microsoft's DirectX technology, which became the foundation for all Windows multimedia applications, 3D graphics, media players, as well as PC and Xbox games. St. John's achievements while at Microsoft are described in several books including: "Renegades of the Empire" by Michael Drummond; "Opening the Xbox" by Dean Takahashi; and, "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner. St. John is widely considered as a visionary in the gaming industry. He is a monthly columnist for Computer Power User Magazine and a frequent speaker at major media and technology events.

 

[Photo credit: http://www.lagamesconference.com/]