Justin Hall

Justin Hall (born in Chicago, Illinois, December 16, 1974) is a writer and graduate student living in Los Angeles, California.

Hall is known to some early adopters of the internet for his web-based diary which he started in January 1994 while he was a student at Swarthmore College. Called Justin s Links from the Underground , the site offered one of the earliest guided tours of the web.

: Justin Hall of Links.net was probably the first individual to post a running commentary about his Web discoveries, on Links from the Underground, back in the Web s Jurassic era (1994). -- Heidi Pollock, May 2001: Yahoo Internet Life Who Let The Blogs Out

Over time, the site came to focus on Hall s life, in intimate detail. A long history of near-daily reporting on his affairs lead Hall to be referred to as the founding father of personal blogging by the The New York Times Magazine in December 2004. In January 2005, Hall ceased regular publishing on Justin s Links .

In the halcyon days of San Francisco s web mania, Hall worked at HotWired, Wired Magazine s early online venture. There and years afterwards, he worked with author Howard Rheingold on a number of online projects, including Electric Minds. Hall also worked with Dennis Fong s Gamers.com.

As a freelance writer, Hall s articles have appeared in .

Today Hall is a graduate student in the USC Interactive Media Division, and a regular participant-observer with the Indie Game Jam.

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*[http://links.net/ Justin s Links] *[http://www.links.net/share/write/ Published Articles] *[http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jhall/ Graduate Studies Research Weblog] *[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgifile=/c/a/2005/02/20/MNGBKBEJO01.DTL Time to get a life -- pioneer blogger Justin Hall bows out at 31 ] (San Francisco Chronicle, February 20, 2005) *[http://www.pliink.com/mt/marxy/archives/000517.html Interview on neomarxisme.com (May 05, 2005)] *[http://www.links.net/share/vid/tgs2k5-onlineMed.mov Video report from the Tokyo Game Show 2005 September]