Seeing the Forest

Seeing the Forest is a credentialed weblog for the 2004 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions, and has been mentioned in the New York Times, Washington Post, Fox News, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Slate, Daily Telegraph and Wall Street Journal among other publications.

Seeing the Forest's first post was on July 16, 2002.

Authors:

"Dave Johnson is a fantastic grandfather of the blogosphere." -- Mike Stark, BraveNewFilms.com

Dave Johnson is Founder and principal author at Seeing the Forest, and a blogger at Speak Out California. He is on the Board of Directors of Media Transparency and The People Choose, and is a member of the Netroots Advisory Council of the Drum Major Institute.

Dave is a frequent public speaker, talk-radio personality and a leading participant in the progressive blogging community. A featured contributor at Huffington Post, he also co-writes regularly with James Boyce. His work appears at many other sites including AlterNet, MyDD, DailyKos, BuzzFlash, Smirking Chimp, OpEd News and Common Dreams.

Currently Dave is a freelance researcher and writer, and is a Senior Fellow with the Institute for the Renewal of the California Dream working on progressive messaging, and a Fellow at the Commonweal Institute, where he researches and writes about the activities of the conservative movement's network of foundations and think tanks and the extent of their influence on American society. He has investigated and reported on the Right's ongoing attacks on public education and teacher unions, university professors, trial attorneys and the tort legal system, and labor unions.

Recently Dave helped co-found Carbon Tracing, Inc., the company developing the desktop systems to validate carbon trading in the US.

Before starting Seeing the Forest, Dave had over over 20 years of technology industry experience and has previously held senior industry positions including CEO and VP of Sales and Marketing. His earlier career included technical positions, including video game design at Atari and Imagic, and he was a pioneer in design and development of productivity and educational applications of personal computers. Send e-mail to Dave. 


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    Dave with Bill Clinton                       Dave 2nd from left                Dave while blogging at the Carter Center
  at Sept.2006 Blogger Meeting                                                        (Carter Center Photo: Tom England)
John Emerson, aka Zizka, (currently taking a blogging break) lives in Portland, Oregon, where he recently retired on a pittance from an undistinguished career in the healthcare biz. His many and varied interests include Taoist philosophy, Genghis Khan, and (in music) alt country and avant-garde jazz. He is divorced with one son, a professional musician, and ten nieces and nephews in six or seven different states and provinces. He is a left-wing Democrat with a strong aversion for conservative trolls. Website. Send e-mail.


Thomas Leavitt has been ranting about this, that and the other on-line since the late 1980's... as a sideline, he's run the world's first self-service web hosting company (WebCom), co-founded an "Internet bubble" company that died an ignomious and highly deserved death, made and lost a million (or so), created SavageStupidity.com and been sued for $1.2 million as a result (he won), and run for City Council (to list a few highlights). ... and no, he's not sorry he voted for Nader in 1996 and 2000. :) . Website. Send e-mail.


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