I am a fanboy. There are these people on the Internet whose web pages I stalk. I don’t stalk the people themselves, of course. Otherwise I would have been a raging fanboy. And I am not. And never will be. I just read most of the stuff that these people write. And learn things from them.
Here’s the list (in alphabetical order):
Philip Greenspun
site: http://philip.greenspun.com/
for : for creating an amazing company and for clarity of thinking
Tom Jennings
site: http://www.wps.com
for: his amazing art
Tema Lebedev
site: http://www.design.ru http://www.tema.ru
reason : for creating an amazing company and for clarity of thinking
Dan Maynes-Aminzade
site: http://www.monzy.com http://www.monzy.org
reason: being funny
Jesse Reclaw
site: http://www.slowwave.com
reson: for his amazing dream comics
Joel Spolsky
site: http://www.joelonsoftware.com
reason : for creating an amazing company and for clarity of thinking
Matthias Wandel
site: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/index.html
reason : for the gadgets that he made
John C Wright, Esq
site: http://www.sff.net/people/john-c-wright/index.html
reason : for proving that there are still good science fiction authors around
Jamie Zawinski
site: http://www.jwz.org
reason: for brilliant use of hypertext