Craig Cline
Encyclopedia
Craig Cline worked at Atex and then served as conference director of Seybold Seminars
and vice president of content development for the Seminars, as well as editorial director of Seybold Publications, holding the latter two titles since November 1996.
He began with Seybold in the mid 1980s when the Seminars were the major conference for the growing electronic publishing
industry and helped make them into "milestones for designers, developers, and production folks of all stripes in their struggle to understand what is going on with the technology."
Cline is credited along with Dale Dougherty
of O'Reilly Media
with coming up with the term "Web 2.0
."
He died on 2 September 2006 after a strenuous battle with ALS
(Lou Gehrig's Disease), leaving behind a wife and six children.
Seybold Seminars
Seybold Seminars was a leading seminar and "the premier trade show for the desktop publishing and pre-press industry." It was founded in 1981 by Jonathan Seybold, son of the printing innovator John W...
and vice president of content development for the Seminars, as well as editorial director of Seybold Publications, holding the latter two titles since November 1996.
He began with Seybold in the mid 1980s when the Seminars were the major conference for the growing electronic publishing
Electronic publishing
Electronic publishing or ePublishing includes the digital publication of e-books and electronic articles, and the development of digital libraries and catalogues. Electronic publishing has become common in scientific publishing where it has been argued that peer-reviewed scientific journals are in...
industry and helped make them into "milestones for designers, developers, and production folks of all stripes in their struggle to understand what is going on with the technology."
Cline is credited along with Dale Dougherty
Dale Dougherty
Dale Dougherty is one of the co-founders of O'Reilly Media. While not at the company in its earliest stages as a technical documentation consulting company, Dale was instrumental in the development of O'Reilly's publishing business, was the founder of GNN, the Global Network Navigator, the first...
of O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics...
with coming up with the term "Web 2.0
Web 2.0
The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...
."
He died on 2 September 2006 after a strenuous battle with ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a form of motor neuron disease caused by the degeneration of upper and lower neurons, located in the ventral horn of the spinal cord and the cortical neurons that provide their efferent input...
(Lou Gehrig's Disease), leaving behind a wife and six children.