EFF's staff grew by two today: my newest cow-orkers are Annalee "Techspolitation" Newitz (media baron) and Tim "BAWRN" Pozar (bull-goose geek).
Newitz was formerly Culture Editor at the San Francisco Bay
Guardian. She has discussed the social impact of technology in
Wired and Salon magazines, on CNN and NPR, as well as in her
syndicated weekly column Techsploitation. As EFF's Media
Coordinator/Policy Analyst, she will be handling media relations,
as well as writing white papers, policy recommendations, and
doing research. "I've always considered my writing to be a form
of activism," she says, "so I'm pleased to join forces with an
organization whose principles and dedication I've admired for
many years."Pozar is a longtime activist in the high tech community and has
spent the past several years consulting as a network architect.
One of the founders of Brightmail, an antispam company, he is
also founder of Bay Area Research Wireless Network (BARWN) and
co-founder of the Bay Area Wireless User Group (BAWUG). As
Technical Director, he will manage new technical projects for
EFF, as well as a team of analysts. "My goal in life is to foster
the democratization of communication," he says, "and my work at
EFF will help me continue the pursuit of that goal."
I once sat in on a wild conversation between Tim Pozar, John Gilmore and Tom Jennings (the inventor of FIDONet), about the day that Tim wrote some code for John's ISP, the Little Garden, that bridged FIDONet into Usenet, joining the two largest conversational networks in the world with a little software. I'm looking forward to more mind-blowing reminisces from Pozar, now that he's in-house and at large.
