Russell Brown
Russell Brown is one of New Zealand's most prolific independent journalists.
He has been writing about technology and media for The Listener since 1993 and has picked up a variety of awards there and at Unlimited magazine and Computerworld, where he was the country's first online news editor.
Last year, he received the inaugural Qantas Media Award for blogging, for his long-running blog Hard News.
Russell was the founding host of Radio New Zealand's Mediawatch programme in 2001, and edited the successful anthology about New Zealand identity, Great New Zealand Argument: Ideas About Ourselves.
He is also on the boards of the New Zealand Sound Archives and NZOnscreen, and is the co-founder of Kiwi Foo Camp. And you can have his wireless broadband connection when you prise it from his cold, dead hands.
Check out Russell's popular, award-winning blog PublicAddress.net. The success of this site has also lead to The Great Blend, a series of live events that brings the online community out into the real world.
