About Us

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Leander Kahney

Leander Kahney I’m the editor of Cultofmac.com and author of Inside Steve’s Brain, the New York Times bestselling business biography of Apple’s unique CEO, Steve Jobs. I’m also author of two award-winning books about technology culture: Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod. Until May 2009, I was the editor of Wired.com. I’ve covered computers and technology for more than a dozen years. I was a senior reporter at MacWeek, and have written for Wired magazine, Scientific American, The Guardian and The Observer in London and many other publications. I worked as a newspaper reporter in Great Britain for several years, covering, among other things, the war in former Yugoslavia. I live and work in San Francisco.

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Nicole Martinelli

Born in San Francisco, Nicole Martinelli has lived in Italy for over 10 years. Raised around computers, she finds that life on the Old Continent — where tech comes late and costs more in Big Mac index terms — increases cultish tendencies and love for DIYs. She finished graduate work at on a borrowed Mac 128K, once opted for a backroom iBook hard drive transplant and arrived unfashionably two hours late the first morning of a fashion magazine job after her first gen iPod was rescued from under Milan subway tracks. A journalist, her work on tech-related subjects from molecular cooking to electronic refereeing has appeared on Wired.com, The New York Times, The Economist.com, Newsweek and Discovery Channel. Since 1999, she’s been tapping away at a site about Italy called Zoomata.

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Lonnie Lazar

lonnie_lazar Lonnie is a writer, musician, web designer attorney who’s lived in San Francisco and futzed around with computers since the mid-80s. He switched to Mac a decade ago and remains mystified by the persistence of Windows and all things Microsoft while retaining a healthy skepticism for all news and product out of Cupertino. Lonnie writes about Apple stuff for Cult of Mac and Mac|Life, and about VoIP and telecommunications for Voxilla. You can find his photographs on Flickr, get his tweets on Twitter and friend him on Facebook.

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Pete Mortensen

Pete Mortensen is a blogger, journalist and consultant based in San Francisco. I am the communications lead for innovation strategy firm Jump Associates, and a frequent lecturer at conferences on technology and design. A journalist by training, I’ve written for, and edited, numerous monthly, weekly, and daily publications, including Spin Magazine, nyou, the Holland Sentinel, the Windsor Times, and Wired.com. I’ve covered a wide variety of technology, design, and cultural topics, from urban redevelopment to Rock Paper Scissor tournaments. In addition to Cult of Mac, I’m the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, my first book and second major blog. I hold a dual bachelor’s degree in journalism and English literature from Northwestern University. Though raised in Michigan, it is widely believed that I was discovered as a foundling, floating in a basket in Stevens Creek outside Cupertino.

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Craig Grannell

I’m a writer and designer for my company Snub Communications, which is based in a town you’ll never have heard of that’s just down the road from London. I’ve worked with and owned Macs for well over a decade, and regularly write for various publications, including MacFormat, Computer Arts, and .net/Practical Web Design, along with penning the odd web design book whenever my sanity nips out for a quick coffee break. I’m also a keen gamer, but mostly concentrate on retro titles, because new-fangled controllers confuse my poor, addled brain. When I’m not writing articles, designing, or swearing loudly at Zoo Keeper, I can usually be found making music for Project Noise, writing iPhone reviews for iPhoneTiny, or being all ‘ranty’ on my blog, Revert to Saved.

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Leigh McMullen

I’m a Vice President at Sogeti, the local professional services division of Big-5 firm, Capgemini, where I lead the Advisory Services and Strategy practices. I’m the author of a number of insomnia-curing books and methodologies in the IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture space with such eye popping titles as: Architecture Design for Enterprise Information Systems. My passion (in addition to working out ways for incredibly large multinational corporations to become larger and more profitable) is writing satire. I live in Dallas, Texas, with my wife, 3 kids in diapers and a rottweiler named Daisy.