Mary Hodder

Founder and Chairman, Dabble – www.dabble.com
Editor, Napsterization –www.napsterization.org/stories
Mary’s Personal Website – www.hodder.org

30 Second Rundown:

Hodder was a graduate student at UC Berkeley and has written for half a dozen different blogs. Her most popular probably being Napsterization, a blog which discusses the transformation of traditional media into digital media. In 2005, she foundedDabble, a site that aims to help people collect and share videos, no matter where they’re hosted. She’s also works on a number of systems, most notably of which is Technorati.

Why She Matters:

Hodder is one of the leading-edge bloggers writing about and experimenting with new web technologies, she is constantly engaged in discovering new roles that digital media can play in our lives today. As such, her views are widely influential. Also, she’s extremely active on many social websites, and interacts profusely with the online community.