Meet the New DZone Team Members
DZone is proud to announce our newest team members, Lowell Heddings, DZone Sheriff; Stacy Doss, DZone Ambassador; Tim Yates, Linkmaster General; and Daniel Spiewak. These individuals have provided countless hours of support, work and dedication to DZone, and we felt that it was time to bring them on board officially.
Lowell Heddings is a Senior Software Engineer during the day, but as DZone Sheriff he is responsible for maintaining the quality of the content on DZone. Although each team member has the ability to block or edit any of the submitted content, Lowell is ultimately responsible for removing spam posts, editing middle-man links, and general quality control for the site. Lowell estimates that a dozen or more spam links are blocked on a daily basis.
Stacy Doss, a Integration Engineer by day, focuses on promoting the site and specifying new features, while occasionally doing a little coding. Stacy envisions site improvement then discusses them with the staff to refine both the specification and feasibility of particular features. Stacy will be writing a weekly blog entry where he will review links of interest from the past week. Also known as “3Monkeys”, Stacy has been an active member in the social networking world for some time. Specifically he was a top contributor at digg, but became more interested in the DZone model.
Tim Yates writes bioinformatics tools and develops websites in addition to being DZones Linkmaster General. Also known as bloid, Tim is a link posting machine. Able to search out obscure articles from a wide variety of sources, Tim has long been the top contributor at DZone. Tim has posted in excess of 2500 links so far, and over 1000 of them have been promoted. Tim also writes code for the site from time to time, so you may notice his handiwork around the site.
Daniel Spiewak, although officially one of the Editors at our EclipseZone.com site, is also a very active member of the DZone team. Daniel is a student at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and is an independent programming contractor. He provides a variety of services for DZone including link moderation and feature development.
Again, we welcome these contributors and hope they are only the first of a growing DZone team.
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February 26th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
I noticed that I’m the only one on the list that doesn’t have an “official title”. Maybe we could call me “Daniel Spiewak: Kibitzing Editor”.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:55 am
I still think bloid’s a bot, just a really impressively written one that can reply in humanlike responses. =D
February 28th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
So are these guys employees? Has dzone gone commercial on us?
February 28th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Yes, Jinky, I’m afraid it’s true. DZone has been commercial from the start, but we felt we had made it abundantly clear. We are very much focused on trying to deliver a great service that is best for our users, but we routinely remind ourselves that “this is a business.” In fact, the phrase is uttered around here often enough that we shorten it merely to TIAB.
Rick