Kate is reticent about recounting her career in the ink-on-paper realm here, but Dan ran into her in the newsroom of the Daily Californian in Berkeley in 1982. Their careers intersected just long enough to ensure a lasting personal collaboration that continues to this day.

Meantime, Dan veered off to the Alameda Times-Star, then the San Francisco Examiner, where old media struggled to survive long enough to become new (the long-overdue update: The Hearst Corporation "sold" the Examiner and bought the competing Chronicle) . With 1996 a little more than 24 hours old, Dan went on leave from the Ex and went to work on a Web publishing startup for New York-based CMP Media, Inc. After that project ran head on into trade-publishing myopia, he signed on as politics editor (and eventually editor in chief) with Wired News. But his media peregrinations had not ended. In May '98, Wired Ventures sold its magazine to Si Newhouse. Dan moved again--going from online to the mag, thus guaranteeing he would not participate in the riches everyone at the online side expected when the company went public. Or got sold (to Lycos; no one in the rank and file got rich). Dan's stay at the magazine was brief, just five months. After that, he free-lanced some feature articles for Wired and several other publications, including The New York Times Magazine; then at the dawn of 2001 landed at TechTV and stayed there until the station's demise (engineered by old owner Paul Allen and new owner Comcast) in May 2004. Since then, he has been back to freelancing and worked in 2006 with The Personal Bee, a ventured that aims to enable creation of personal or corporate news reports based on RSS feeds. He's also busy (year four) with a blog, Infospigot: The Chronicles. Who isn't?

Kate has had a rich and varied career as teacher, child-care worker, storyteller (she does one of the all-time great renditions of "Casey at the Bat"), legal editor, bookseller and bookkeeper at Serendipity Books, where she made this find, "The night editor's poem." Canadian poet Alden Nowland has obviously done his time on the desk. Her current work stop (winter 2007) is the third grade at RISE Community School in Oakland. She's in her tenth year in the district.

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