Gina Trapai

Managing Editor of Lifehacker –www.lifehacker.com
Gina’s blog – www.ginatrapani.com

30 Second Rundown:

Trapani is the founding editor of Lifehacker, a Gawker Media weblog on productivity, software, tips and tricks. She is also an independent web programmer coding Firefox extensions and web sites. Her writing has appeared in Popular Science, WIRED and Laptop Magazine, and in December 2006 she released her first book, Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day. The second edition, Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better, came out in March 2008.

Why She Matters:

Trapani is perhaps the best and most widely influential of any of the Gawker Media bloggers. She writes about technology and productivity for the masses, and has attracted a wide following. Lifehacker has become a must-read for many people, bloggers and non-bloggers alike. Getting mentioned on Lifehacker can send almost Digg-like traffic to a smaller blog.