User:Joel Rennie

I am a former newspaper journalist of the long-defunct Houston Post daily newspaper. I also worked at the PBS-affiliated television station in Houston, KUHT-TV, in the production, engineering and programming departments. I was a copywriter with the Houston office of worldwide advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather (now just Ogivly at http://www.ogilvy.com ). I was accepted to Rice University in Houston in 1972 after three years of public high school, and then attended University of Houston as a journalism major while working at The Post in the mid-1970s, but did not complete a bachelor's degree at either institution. I worked for one of the first commercial Internet service providers in the world, which was seminal in the creation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Some of my work for that company can be read here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020604001722/www.io.com/news_index.html

I made (and may continue to make) substantial edits to Wikipedia, visible at this address:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&target=No+barometer+of+intelligence

A google search for my name, "Joel Rennie" has shown this as the top result for that specific text string for the past four years:

http://washington.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/beyond-the-jewels-unfinished-business/

I am a frequent commenter to a number of blogs on the new York Times website:

http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=joel+rennie&srchst=blog

... and I traded e-mail correspondence with Citizendium editor Howard C. Berkowitz in the summer of 2008, and spoke to him on the telephone once.

Enough?