Scot Hacker works as a webmonkey, helping to build CalCentral @ ETS, a next-generation portal for students, staff and faculty at UC Berekeley.
I recently served as Webmaster at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and Knight Digital Media Central, where I divided my time between supporting students in their web publishing efforts, co-teaching in the multimedia skills program, webcasting public events, doing general desktop computer support, and helping administer a small farm of Apple XServes.
In a former life I was an active technology journalist. I’m the author of O’Reilly’s MP3: The Definitive Guide, as well as Peachpit’s The BeOS Bible (both now out of print). I’ve written dozens of technology articles for PC Magazine, Byte, MacWorld, ZDNet, and others.
These days most of my evenings are spent running the independent web hosting and consulting business Birdhouse Hosting, where I specialize in helping find and implement web technology solutions for journalists and creative types.
I’m a Mac head.
Over the years I’ve been an avid surfer and skateboarder, AFS exchange student (Australia 1983), music writer, technology editor, collage artist, hitchhiker, programmer, scuba diver, motorcyclist, etc.
I currently live in California with my wife Amy, son Miles, and two cats. I maintain a near-daily weblog at birdhouse.org/blog.
Destinations
- scot hacker’s foobar blog
- My del.icio.us feed
- Flickr stuff
- Birdhouse Hosting
- Bucketlist.org
- Scot Hacker’s Scripts and Utils
- Knight Digital Media Center
- UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism