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Leander Kahney, editor: leander (AT) cultofmac (DOT) com
Eli Milchman, test editor: eli (AT) cultofmac (DOT) com
John Brownlee: john.brownlee (AT) cultofmac (DOT) com
Ed Sutherland: ed (AT) cultofmac (DOT) com
Craig Grannell: craiggrannell (AT) googlemail (DOT) com
Nicole Martinelli: nicole (AT) cultofmac (DOT) com
Leigh McMullen: leigh (AT) cultofmac (DOT) com
Pete Mortensen: morpete (AT) gmail (DOT) com
Lonnie Lazar: lonnie (AT) cultofmac (DOT) com

About our contributors

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.

Email: leander (AT) cultofmac (DOT) com | Read Leander’s articles

Leander’s Twitter stream and Facebook profile.

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.

Email: nicole (AT) cultofmac (DOT) com | Read Nicole’s articles

John Brownlee

John Brownlee has written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Berlin with a charming girlfriend against whom he is currently enjoying a ten game cribbage winning streak, and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after one of literature’s most deviant perverts.

Email: john.brownlee (AT) cultofmac (DOT) com | John’s Twitter stream | Read John’s articles

Ed Sutherland

Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.

Email: digital (AT) twcny (DOT) rr (DOT) com | Read Ed’s articles

Eli Milchman

Eli Milchman is Cult of Mac’s test editor. When he was eight, Eli came home from frolicking in the Veld one day and was given an Atari 400. Since then, his fascination with technology has made him an intrepid early adopter of whatever charming new contraption crosses his path. He calls San Francisco home, where he works as a journalist and photographer. Eli has contributed to the pages of Wired.com and BIKE Magazine, among others.

Email: eli (AT) cultofmac (DOT) com | Read Eli’s articles

Giles Turnbull

giles_turnbull Giles Turnbull is a freelance writer in England. He is a columnist for PA, and has written for the BBC, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, MacUser, Macworld, and The Morning News. He has a blog you can ignore and a Twitter account you needn’t follow.

Email: giles (AT) gilest (DOT) org | Read Giles’ articles

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 over 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.

Email: Lonnie Lazar: lonnie (AT) cultofmac (DOT) com | Lonnie’s Twitter stream and Flickr page | Read Lonnie’s articles

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.

Email: morpete (AT) gmail (DOT) com | Pete’s Twitter stream and Facebook profile. | Read Pete’s articles

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.

Email: craiggrannell (AT) googlemail (DOT) com | Read Craig’s articles

Craig’s Twitter feeds: CraigGrannell, Revert to Saved and iPhoneTiny.

Leigh McMullen

LMHeadshot 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.

Email: leigh(AT) cultofmac (DOT) com | Read Leigh’s articles

Sayam Aggarwal

Sayam Aggarwal I am a 16-year-old student living in India who has been an Apple fan for almost five years — that’s when I was introduced to the my first iPod and then soon the iPhone. I have been working with ModMyi for more than a year as an author, not to mention the blogs that I have created and joined. In addition to my iPhone that is gonna be upgraded to 3GS soon (hopefully), I own a MacBook of which I can never be separated from. Most of my time is spent on the Internet fetching the latest news regarding Apple and its entire product range.