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, New York Magazine, 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.

Dave is a frequent public speaker and talk-radio guest and a leading participant in the progressive blogging community. He does a regular weekly segment on the popular Fairness Doctrine radio show. A featured contributor at Huffington Post, his work also appears at many other sites including Open Left, AlterNet, MyDD and Common Dreams.

Currently Dave is a Senior Fellow with the Institute for the Renewal of the California Dream working on progressive messaging, a Fellow at Campaign for America's Future, where he writes about issues involving American manufacturing, trade, what might be called industrial policy and a Fellow at the Commonweal Institute, where he researches and writes about the relationship between corporations and democracy.

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. 


       Good Dave                  Bad Dave


    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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