Tom Coates (Born 19 July 1972) is an early weblogger based in San Francisco, California who has been writing plasticbag.org since 1999. He is known[who?] as an expert in social software, for his thinking on future media distribution and the web of data.
Coates was educated at the Norwich School, the University of Bristol and the London College of Printing. He works for Yahoo! Tech Development with Caterina Fake, Jeremy Zawodny and Simon Willison.[1] He worked at the BBC running an R&D team for BBC Radio, and before that he developed the geo-coded online community UpMyStreet Conversations.[2]. He has also developed online communities for emap and was Production Editor of Time Out's website.[3]. His professional written work includes film reviews for the BBC,[4] contributions to Time Out city guides and comment pieces on technology for The Guardian.[5]
Coates' weblog has won a number of Bloggies including Best European Weblog (2001 and 2002),[6][7] Best Gay/Lesbian/Trans weblog (2001),[6] Best British or Irish Weblog (2004 and 2005)[8][9] Lifetime Achievement (2005).[9] He also runs the online subcultural community Barbelith - initially inspired by the work of comic book writer Grant Morrison.[10]
He is also on the advisory council of the Open Rights Group.
Coates co-organised the London Hack Day in June 2007 with help from Matthew Cashmore from backstage.bbc.co.uk.[11].
The Evening Standard named Coates as one of the Most Influential 1000 Londoners in October 2007 and again in October 2008.[12][13]
In March 2008, Coates launched the Fire Eagle location brokerage service for Yahoo! at ETech. The service was opened up to the general public on August 12 2008.
References
- ^ Guardian Technology Blog October 17, 2005
- ^ Coates, Tom Upmystreet Conversations: Mapping Cyber to Space, The O' Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2003
- ^ About Page, Time Out City Guides
- ^ Contributions to BBC Film website
- ^ Coates, Tom, Second Sight, The Guardian August 28, 2003
- ^ a b Winners and Nominations, Bloggies 2001
- ^ Winners and Nominations, Bloggies 2002
- ^ Winners and Nominations, Bloggies 2004
- ^ a b Winners and Nominations, Bloggies 2005
- ^ FAQ, Barbelith
- ^ plasticbag.org, June 18, 2007
- ^ Evening Standard, October 11, 2007
- ^ Evening Standard, October 2008
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