- Chris Pirillo
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Christopher Pirillo 
Chris Pirillo speaking at Gnomedex in 2007Born July 26, 1973
Des Moines, IowaOccupation YouTube Partner, Magazine columnist,
tech expert for CNN.com,[1]
book author, conference organizer, public speaker, owner of a blogging network, runs a social community, provider of video content,
Board of directors, Ustream.tvWebsite http://chris.pirillo.com (Personal Blog) Christopher Joseph Pirillo (born July 26, 1973) is the founder and maintainer of Lockergnome, which is a network of blogs, web forums, mailing lists, and online communities. He spent two years hosting the TechTV television program Call for Help, where he also hosted the first annual Call-for-Help-a-Thon. He now hosts videos on several Internet sites, including CNN, YouTube, ustream.tv, CBC and his own website.[2]
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Biography
Pirillo was born on July 26, 1973 in Des Moines, Iowa. He studied at the University of Northern Iowa, where he majored in English education. For a short time, he was a 7th grade English student teacher at Coke R. Stevenson Middle School in San Antonio, Texas. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington[citation needed] with his two dogs, Wicket and Pixie, after whom the bots on his IRC chat room are named.[3] Pirillo streams video of his office live and has a large community of dedicated supporters that watch his frequently recorded videos on various tech-based and non-tech-based topics.
Projects
Since 2001, Pirillo has hosted Gnomedex, which is a yearly conference covering art, science, social media, blogs, and new and emerging technologies and concepts, such as Web 2.0. Gnomedex 10 was held in August 2010 in Seattle, Washington.[4]
Pirillo streams video live 24/7 from his home office on Ustream, and his stream at http://live.pirillo.com is one of the more popular, with over 5,000 regular watchers.[citation needed] His streams, also broadcast on YouTube, focus on software, hardware, review, computers, iPhone applications, operating systems, gaming, and other technology-related topics and events. As of 25 March 2011[update], Pirillo has had over 100,000,000 views.[2] As of 22 March 2011[update], he reached over 180k subscribers on his YouTube channel.[5]
Pirillo runs several online communities. His Lockergnome blogging network has over 100,000 members. Geeks, his Ning-based social network, has over 24,000 users.[6] Lockergnome began as a technology mailing list in 1996, offering tricks and tips for operating systems and applications, software suggestions (with an emphasis on public domain and shareware software), and web site recommendations.[7] Several mailing lists are now provided, offering technology Advice and Tips[8] and other content syndicated from Lockergnome's blogs and web forums, including IT Professionals[9] and problem solvers.[10]
Pirillo's advocacy of new technology went as far as setting up, with Jake Ludington, a BitTorrent server at vistatorrent.com "to help Microsoft get [Windows Vista] Beta 2 in users' hands" in 2003.[11] According to Information Week, Microsoft had "reported problems in delivering Beta 2 electronically ... recommending on its own Web site that users order the DVD rather than download the 3.5-4.4GB file".[11] Microsoft sent a cease and desist e-mail, and the pair complied.[11][12]
Pirillo is the author of several books, including Poor Richard's E-mail Publishing, Online! The Book with John C. Dvorak and Wendy Taylor, and several ebooks.[13][14] In January 2010, he began hosting "Help Desk with Chris Pirillo", a weekly live video call-in show on Microsoft's Channel 9 web site.[15] The show is at the pilot stage. Since early 2011, Pirillo has been one of the featured "CoolHotNot Tech Xperts," along with John C. Dvorak, Jim Louderback, Dave Graveline, Robin Raskin, Dave Whittle, Steve Bass, and Cheryl Currid. At CoolHotNot's web site, he shares his "Loved List" of favorite consumer tech products, along with a "Wanted List" and a "Letdown List".[16]
References
- ^ Chris Pirillo Archive. CNN.com. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
- ^ a b Tubemogul Rich Analytics for Chris Pirillo
- ^ Chris Pirillo's blog's About Section
- ^ Gnomedex official website.
- ^ Chris Pirillo's channel on YouTube
- ^ http://geeks.pirillo.com
- ^ http://www.lockergnome.com/about/
- ^ Advice and Tips
- ^ Lockergnome IT Professionals feed
- ^ Lockergnome Help Forums
- ^ a b c Gregg, Keizer (June 15, 2006). "Microsoft Shuts Off Vista Torrent". Information Week. http://www.informationweek.com/news/189401811. Retrieved September 17, 2011.
- ^ ""BitTorrent Download for Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2"". VistaTorrent.com. Archived from the original on 2006-07-05. http://web.archive.org/web/20060705053614/http://vistatorrent.com/. Retrieved September 17, 2011..
- ^ "Poor Richard's E-mail Publishing". isbndb.com.
- ^ "Online! The Book". isbndb.com.
- ^ "Help Desk with Chris Pirillo on Channel 9 Live (Pilot Episode)". Channel 9. MSDN.
- ^ "CoolHotNot Tech Xperts Team". http://www.coolhotnot.com/techxperts/. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
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- American Internet personalities
- American non-fiction writers
- American people of Italian descent
- People from Des Moines, Iowa
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- TechTV
- University of Northern Iowa alumni
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