Michael Goldhaber is a consultant, writer, lecturer, and blogger who lives in the Bay Area. He is a Ph.D. physicist who has gone on to have a very eclectic professional life: assistant professor at the University of Arizona (1970-73) and University of California-Berkeley (1974-82); political activist, administrator, and teacher on science and technology (1974-80); Director, Technology and Democracy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington DC (1983-86); Founder and President of the Technology and Democracy Project, San Francisco (1987-94); and most recently, a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California-Berkeley (1996-2002). Michael's writings about the Internet's impact on the "Attention Economy" have been published in First Monday.
More background about Michael can be found on his home page.