About Us

Leander Kahney

I’m the News Editor at Wired.com, and the author of the New York Times best seller, Inside Steve’s Brain, about 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. Before becoming an editor, I was as a senior reporter at Wired News specializing in Apple and the Mac community, as well internet culture and emerging technologies. 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 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.

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 editor of two innovation blogs: Better Than New (contemporary) and Pattern Linguist (historical). 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.

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, or being all ‘ranty’ on my blog, Revert to Saved.

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.