Leslie Walker
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Work Samples
Transcripts of a few of the more than 100 live Web chats that Walker moderated with Internet pioneers:
World Wide Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee -- 1999
Google co-founder Sergey Brin -- 1999
Amazon.com Founder Jeff Bezos -- 2001
PayPal Founder Peter Thiel -- 2001
RealNetworks Founder Rob Glaser -- 2002
Samples of Blogs & Chats Walker wrote from special events:
DEMO 2006
ETECH 2006
EBay Live 2006
Debate over Future of Newspapers:
Walker Debates Newspaper Assoc. Pres. John Sturm online in 2000
Public Service:
A Web site that Walker created and maintains for a nonprofit:
Bay to Ocean Writers Conference
Public Speaking
Walker has given speeches to many media and high-tech conferences, college classes and private groups.
Contact her via e-mail
LESLIE*AT*lesliewalker.com.
Walker moderating the "State of the Industry" keynote panel at the 2006 annual conference of the Online News Association.
Walker's farewell ".com" column looked back at major themes she chronicled in "How the Web Was Won"
Her debut ".com" column in 1998 chronicled the "Battle of the Bots," showing how Web shopping agents revealed tensions among major players wrangling for economic control of the Internet.
Future Newscasts in June 2006 looked at automated online newscasts and how they give a new wrinkle to the shared reading experience of the mass-media era.
What Does Google Know About Us? warned in Jan. 2006 about how much personal information people are handing over to the Internet search king.
Privacy was frequently spotlighted in Walker's columns, including her early warning about the DoubleClick ad network plan to correlate personal info collected online and offline.
HyperLocal News drilled down into the citizen journalist movement in Dec. 2004.
Her "Ink-on-Paper Newspapers Will Die" column made controversial predictions about the business model of newspapers in 2000. The previous year, Walker was early to understand how new media forms were terrifying traditional media.
ECommerce Matures , a front-page story in June 2005, used the 10th anniversary of Web commerce to encapsulate the evolution of eBay, Yahoo, Google and Amazon.com.
In April 2006, Walker bemoaned the new-media linguistic soup that makes it hard for ordinary people to grasp the Web's latest trends.
In 2002, Economics of NetFlix predicted the Internet mail-order movie service would give a big boost to niche movies.
This personal Digital Imaging Revolution story showed how digital cameras were changing the way people think about photography.
"50 Ways to Leave AOL" in March 2006 took a fun look at the mass exodus from AOL dial-up.
"In the Future, the Going Gets Digital" noted the U.S. was falling behind in the global broadband race and lamented how its technology leaders lacked empathy for consumers.
This 2004 year-in-review column highlighted key Internet industry trends.
Internet search advertising was one of Walker's regular topics. She first visited Google and interviewed its founders in 1998, when Google still occupied a second-story hole-in-the-wall. Most recently, she toured the massive Googleplex in the fall of 2006. In between, she wrote many explainers about search-ad auctions and search algorithms.
In 2005, Walker profiled a virtual community called Habbo Hotel to show the kind of businesses that were drawing money during the dot-com revival.
After the 2001 terrorist attacks, Walker wrote many articles about how the Internet was widening global media consumption habits, including "Casting a Wider Net for World News" in 2003.
One of her most popular columns was this 2002 account ofdigging in the dot-com graveyard for clues to the great Internet wipeout of 2001.
Back in 1999, most people had little idea what Yahoo and other online aggregators were. This column explained the purpose of portals--the emerging giants of new media--and showed how most suffered from an identity crisis.
The previous year, she compared the struggles of portals to those of radio in the 1920s and predicted the decentralized Internet would lead to many new-media winners.
In another 1998 column, "A Place of Their Own," Walker foreshadowed the eventual explosion of personal publishing and social networking on the Web. Personal media renaissance would remain her primary theme, even as her focus turned to Internet economics.
Her debut ".com" column in 1998 chronicled the "Battle of the Bots," showing how Web shopping agents revealed tensions among major players wrangling for economic control of the Internet.
Future Newscasts in June 2006 looked at automated online newscasts and how they give a new wrinkle to the shared reading experience of the mass-media era.
What Does Google Know About Us? warned in Jan. 2006 about how much personal information people are handing over to the Internet search king.
Privacy was frequently spotlighted in Walker's columns, including her early warning about the DoubleClick ad network plan to correlate personal info collected online and offline.
HyperLocal News drilled down into the citizen journalist movement in Dec. 2004.
Her "Ink-on-Paper Newspapers Will Die" column made controversial predictions about the business model of newspapers in 2000. The previous year, Walker was early to understand how new media forms were terrifying traditional media.
ECommerce Matures , a front-page story in June 2005, used the 10th anniversary of Web commerce to encapsulate the evolution of eBay, Yahoo, Google and Amazon.com.
In April 2006, Walker bemoaned the new-media linguistic soup that makes it hard for ordinary people to grasp the Web's latest trends.
In 2002, Economics of NetFlix predicted the Internet mail-order movie service would give a big boost to niche movies.
This personal Digital Imaging Revolution story showed how digital cameras were changing the way people think about photography.
"50 Ways to Leave AOL" in March 2006 took a fun look at the mass exodus from AOL dial-up.
"In the Future, the Going Gets Digital" noted the U.S. was falling behind in the global broadband race and lamented how its technology leaders lacked empathy for consumers.
This 2004 year-in-review column highlighted key Internet industry trends.
Internet search advertising was one of Walker's regular topics. She first visited Google and interviewed its founders in 1998, when Google still occupied a second-story hole-in-the-wall. Most recently, she toured the massive Googleplex in the fall of 2006. In between, she wrote many explainers about search-ad auctions and search algorithms.
In 2005, Walker profiled a virtual community called Habbo Hotel to show the kind of businesses that were drawing money during the dot-com revival.
After the 2001 terrorist attacks, Walker wrote many articles about how the Internet was widening global media consumption habits, including "Casting a Wider Net for World News" in 2003.
One of her most popular columns was this 2002 account of
Back in 1999, most people had little idea what Yahoo and other online aggregators were. This column explained the purpose of portals--the emerging giants of new media--and showed how most suffered from an identity crisis.
The previous year, she compared the struggles of portals to those of radio in the 1920s and predicted the decentralized Internet would lead to many new-media winners.
In another 1998 column, "A Place of Their Own," Walker foreshadowed the eventual explosion of personal publishing and social networking on the Web. Personal media renaissance would remain her primary theme, even as her focus turned to Internet economics.
Contacting
Leslie Walker
E-mail address:
Leslie*AT*lesliewalker.com.
Leslie Walker
E-mail address:
Leslie*AT*lesliewalker.com.
