A little about me…
I started messing with (and first wrote about) Linux in 1996, and have used it as my primary desktop operating system since 1998. I am or have been a member of the Internet Press Guild, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Online News Association, in case it matters to anyone. My “Roblimo” nick was originally an abbreviation for “Robin’s Limousine” back in the days of eight character screen name maximums. Now so many people know me by it that I can’t let it go, even though I no longer own or drive a limousine.
This is my formal “author and speaker bio.” It has more puffery in it than I really like, but the facts are correct.
Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller is editor in chief for OSTG, one of the world’s leading online tech news publishers. He has written extensively about computers and the Internet for Slashdot, Linux.com, NewsForge, Time New Media, Online Journalism Review, Web Hosting Magazine, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, and many other Web sites, newspapers, and magazines.
He is one of the creators of modern interactive journalism and has served as an Internet business consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and many Internet entrepreneurs. He is the author of “The Online Rules of Successful Companies” (Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2002), and “Point & Click Linux” (Prentice Hall, 2004).
Before becoming a full-time writer and editor, Miller operated a small limousine service in the Baltimore/Washington area and wrote freelance part-time. “I never intended to make writing and editing a full-time profession,” he says. “It was purely accidental. There are many talented editors and writers out of work who could easily replace me.”
Perhaps this is true, but we feel he is being too modest. Few journalists have covered Linux and Open Source as long or as deeply as Miller, and none have done more research on how software entrepreneurs can use Open Source and Free Software to build profitable businesses.
When speaking, Miller believes in complete interactivity. If you want to interrupt and ask him to focus more on a particular topic, he says, “Go right ahead. Dialogs are always better than monologs.” He has spoken to both small groups around conference tables and in large halls to as many as 2000 people, both directly in English and, through translators, to speakers of at least half a dozen other languages.