Adrian Holovaty
Adrian Holovaty leads the EveryBlock team. He’s a journalist and Web developer who is well known in online journalism circles as one of the pioneers of "journalism via computer programming" on the Web. Previously, he worked as editor of editorial innovations at washingtonpost.com and developed one of the original Google Maps mashups, chicagocrime.org.
Geeks might know Adrian as the co-creator and Benevolent Dictator For Life of Django, an open-source framework that helps programmers build Web sites. He co-wrote the Django Book and has released a number of open-source projects, including a hack that inspired the creation of Greasemonkey.
He sits on the National Advisory Board of the Poynter Institute and was the 2007 Hearst New Media Lecturer at Columbia University’s Journalism School.
Adrian lives with his wife in Chicago and spends his free time playing gypsy-jazz guitar and posting YouTube videos. 2,300 subscribers and counting!
Contact Adrian at adrian at everyblock.com.
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