Jeffrey Carl, born 1973, is best known as an Internet Service Provider

Internet service provider

An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...

 (ISP) and Open Source Software (OSS) journalist and commentator, and was one of the first general technology publication writers to provide extensive coverage of free/open source software.http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/07/062222 http://people.freebsd.org/~nik/xml-test/news/press.html http://openbsd.bug.it/press.html He was prominent during the Dot-com bubble

Dot-com bubble

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 era as a columnist for the industry publication Boardwatch Magazine

Boardwatch

Boardwatch, published and edited by Jack Rickard, began as an important publication for the online Bulletin Board Systems of the 1980s and 1990s and ultimately evolved into the primary trade magazine of the ISP industry in the late 1990s. Late in the magazine's run, it was renamed to ISPWatch when...

and contributor to other ISP publications including Daemon News, Web Hosting Magazine

Web Hosting Magazine

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and CLEC Magazine. He was also a journalist with the Richmond Times-Dispatch

Richmond Times-Dispatch

The Richmond Times-Dispatch is the primary daily newspaper in Richmond the capital of Virginia, United States, and is commonly considered the "newspaper of record" for events occurring in much of the state...

, The Richmond State, Westmoreland News, and the University of Richmond Collegian

The Collegian (University of Richmond)

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.

He has continued to write for other IT

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 publications such as Processor Magazine, Integrated Solutions for Retailers, Disaster Recovery Journal and others. He is also the author of What Rich People Do.http://www.whatrichpeopledo.com

Notable free/open source and ISP writings

• "Tracing the Routes" widely cited traceroute tutorial (Boardwatch
  Boardwatch
  Boardwatch, published and edited by Jack Rickard, began as an important publication for the online Bulletin Board Systems of the 1980s and 1990s and ultimately evolved into the primary trade magazine of the ISP industry in the late 1990s. Late in the magazine's run, it was renamed to ISPWatch when...
  
   ISP Directory 1999-2002)

• "Implementing MPLS For Your ISP" Early article popularizing MPLS (Boardwatch
  Boardwatch
  Boardwatch, published and edited by Jack Rickard, began as an important publication for the online Bulletin Board Systems of the 1980s and 1990s and ultimately evolved into the primary trade magazine of the ISP industry in the late 1990s. Late in the magazine's run, it was renamed to ISPWatch when...
  
   Magazine, March 2002)

• "Random Ramblings About BSD on Mac OS X" First IT exploration of UNIX subsystem on Mac OS X (Daemon News, December 2000)

• "Trusting BSD - Ultra-High Security for FreeBSD" Early profile on TrustedBSD (Boardwatch
  Boardwatch
  Boardwatch, published and edited by Jack Rickard, began as an important publication for the online Bulletin Board Systems of the 1980s and 1990s and ultimately evolved into the primary trade magazine of the ISP industry in the late 1990s. Late in the magazine's run, it was renamed to ISPWatch when...
  
   Magazine, August 2000)

• "FreeBSD 4.0 and beyond" First mainstream review of FreeBSD
  FreeBSD
  FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...
  
   4.0 (Linux Today, March 2000)

• "Freenix Flavors (Three Daemons and a Penguin)" Popular explanation of free UNIX distributions (Boardwatch
  Boardwatch
  Boardwatch, published and edited by Jack Rickard, began as an important publication for the online Bulletin Board Systems of the 1980s and 1990s and ultimately evolved into the primary trade magazine of the ISP industry in the late 1990s. Late in the magazine's run, it was renamed to ISPWatch when...
  
   Magazine, November 1999)

• "The History of Free Unix Variants" Widely cited history of free UNIX variants (Boardwatch
  Boardwatch
  Boardwatch, published and edited by Jack Rickard, began as an important publication for the online Bulletin Board Systems of the 1980s and 1990s and ultimately evolved into the primary trade magazine of the ISP industry in the late 1990s. Late in the magazine's run, it was renamed to ISPWatch when...
  
   Magazine, October 1999)

• "Your ISP can Support Macs" Early article on Mac support for ISPs (Boardwatch
  Boardwatch
  Boardwatch, published and edited by Jack Rickard, began as an important publication for the online Bulletin Board Systems of the 1980s and 1990s and ultimately evolved into the primary trade magazine of the ISP industry in the late 1990s. Late in the magazine's run, it was renamed to ISPWatch when...
  
   Magazine, August 1999)

Notable other writings

• "Odd Job", an Open content
  Open content
  Open content or OpenContent is a neologism coined by David Wiley in 1998 which describes a creative work that others can copy or modify. The term evokes open source, which is a related concept in software....
  
   play first performed at the University of Richmond
  University of Richmond
  The University of Richmond is a selective, private, nonsectarian, liberal arts university located on the border of the city of Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia. The University of Richmond is a primarily undergraduate, residential university with approximately 4,000 undergraduate and graduate...
  
  in 1996

• "Washington Post Style Invitational, Week 120", winner of the "worst metaphor" contest