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McKelvey was an American entrepreneur who is best known for founding Monster.com, which is the leading job recruitment site on the Internet. McKelvey had a knack for succeeding in business. His first company called Telephone Marketing Programs became the nation’s largest Yellow Pages advertising agency, handling almost a third of the American Yellow Pages advertising. In the [...]
Goodspeed was a former contest on the hugely popular show American Idol. She auditioned for season five in 2005, and was closely followed by the producers. Even though she had no singing ability, she gained semi-stardom through Youtube. Goodspeed claimed that her audition videos had been seen over a million times. Goodspeed didn’t hide the fact that [...]
Leroy Sievers was a celebrated journalist who worked for NPR, CBS News, and ABC’s Nightline for which he was a producer. He won 12 Emmy awards as well as two Peabody Awards. In his later years, once he found out that he had cancer, he ran a blog and a podcast on the NPR website in [...]
Freeman is best known for co-authoring the book “100 Things to Do Before You Die”. The book had the subtitle “Travel Events You Just Can’t Miss”. He co-wrote the book in 1999 with Neil Teplica. They got the idea for the book from the website whatsgoingon.com, which they ran together from 1996 to 2001.
Ed Foster was as a technology columnist for InfoWorld. Foster was probably best known for his blog “The Gripe Line”. Foster contributed a lot to the technology-using community in many ways during his 20-year stint with InfoWorld.
Known as “the Spam King”, Davidson conducted his business with the name “Power Promoters” sending out hundreds of thousands of spam emails between 2002 - 2006. Davidson was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 5, 2007. Almost a year later he would be sentenced to serve 21 months in federal prison, and pay $714,139 [...]
Olive Riley’s claim to fame was her title as the world’s oldest blogger. She made it to 108 years old, and had been blogging since 2006 when her grandson set her up with a blog. She accumulated 1.2 million hits in the time of her blogging. During this time, she managed to earn a nomination [...]