1. FringeWare, an early attempt at ecommerce and online community, published a popular "magalog" called FringeWare Review, and a literary zine edited by Lebkowsky called Unshaved Truths.
21 Facts About Jon Lebkowsky
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Jon Lebkowsky has a history of advocacy in support of a free and open Internet, and was a co-founder of EFF-Austin, an organization formed to be a chapter of the national Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Jon Lebkowsky joined the WELL in 1990, and became a host or co-host of several forums on the conferencing system, including forums devoted to Factsheet Five, where he had a brief stint as book review editor, and Mondo 2000, where he wrote several articles and formed friendships with editors RU Sirius and Jude Milhon.
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Jon Lebkowsky had early associations with staff at Wired Magazine and conducted a regular, weekly series of chats called Electronic Frontiers Forum at HotWired.
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Jon Lebkowsky was a subdomain editor for the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog and, in 1996, became a community host at Howard Rheingold's Electric Minds.
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Jon Lebkowsky has been interviewed about his pioneering work for the documentary Traceroute.
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Jon Lebkowsky turned to web development, and formed Polycot Consulting with Jeff Kramer and Matt Sanders on September 12,2001.
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Jon Lebkowsky became an advocate of Open Source systems based on PHP, and later Ruby on Rails.
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Jon Lebkowsky was an early influential social software advocate and one of the instigators of the Social Software Alliance.
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Jon Lebkowsky blogged at, and managed technology for, Worldchanging, an influential website focused on the future of sustainability that was inspired by the Viridian Design Movement.
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Jon Lebkowsky is a close friend of author Bruce Sterling, whom he has interviewed many times, and he created and operated the web site for Sterling's Viridian Design Movement.
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Jon Lebkowsky has written articles and essays, and is a contributing writer and columnist at Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, and one of the contributors to the book Worldchanging.
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Jon Lebkowsky was co-editor of the book Extreme Democracy.
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Jon Lebkowsky has been an advisor to the SXSW Interactive conference for many years.
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Jon Lebkowsky curated SXSWi tracks on wireless in 2004, digital convergence in 2006, and journalism in 2011.
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Jon Lebkowsky was a cofounder and an original board member of the Society for Participatory Medicine, and currently manages the Society's social media presence.
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Jon Lebkowsky formed an Austin-based social web consultancy, Social Web Strategies, where he was principal from 2006 to 2009.
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Jon Lebkowsky was instigator and principal of Plutopia Productions, a future-focused entertainment and production company.
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Jon Lebkowsky has been involved in Austin sustainability projects, including Austin EcoNetwork, Austin Green Art, Austin 350, Solar Austin, and the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems.
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Jon Lebkowsky currently writes and speaks about the Internet, media, digital culture, and social technology.
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Jon Lebkowsky has a web development and consulting company called Polycot Associates, a spinoff from Polycot Consulting.