Bio
Howard Rheingold is author of Tools for Thought, www.rheingold.com/texts/tft; The Virtual Community, www.rheingold.com/vc/ book; Smart Mobs, www.smartmobs.com. He was editor of Whole Earth Review, en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Whole_Earth_Review, and The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, www.well.com/user/ hlr/mwecintro, and founding executive editor of Hotwired, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotWired. He has taught courses on participatory media and social networks at UC Berkeley. His current projects include Social Media Classroom, www. socialmediaclassroom.com; The Cooperation Project, www.cooperationcommons.org; and Participatory Media Literacy www.socialtext.net/ medialiteracy; www.rheingold.com; www.twitter. com/hrheingold; vlog.rheingold.com