Justin Hall (born December 16, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American freelance journalist who is best known as a pioneer blogger (internet-based diarist); and for writing reviews from game conferences such as E3 and the Tokyo Game Show.

He graduated from Francis W. Parker High School in 1993, and in 1994, while a student at Swarthmore College, started his web-based diary Justin's Links from the Underground, which offered one of the earliest guided tours of the web. Over time, the site came to focus on Hall's life in intimate detail. In December 2004, New York Times Magazine referred to him as "the founding father of personal blogging." Hall continued to maintain the site until January 2005.^*.

Presently Hall lives in Los Angeles, California, where he is a graduate student in the USC Interactive Media Division, and a regular attendee of the Indie Game Jam.

Selected works

• Playing a Life Online - an audio recording March 11, 2006 (speech at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas USA)
• "The Fantasy Life of Coder Boys", April 2003, Wired
• "Where the Geeks Are", August 19, 1999, Rolling Stone
• "Today's Visions of the Science of Tomorrow" , January 4, 2003, New York Times'' op-ed
• "The Gaming Wars", May 18, 2001, Salon.com (review of E-3)
• "Hire This Boy To Play Your Video Games", October 12, 2000, Rolling Stone
• Just In Tokyo, 2002, Garrett County Press. ISBN 1-89-105350-7

Contributor

• J. Goldstein & J. Raessens, Handbook of Computer Game Studies, MIT Press, 2005: Chapter on "Future of Games: Mobile Gaming"
• T. Fullerton & C. Swain, Game Design Workshop, CMP Books, 2004: Sidebar/chapter on "The Indie Game Jam."
• V. Burnham, Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, MIT Press, 2001: Essays on the Apple ][, Burger Time and Spy Hunter.

Films

• Hall was featured in the documentary Home Page ^*.
• He appeared nude as an actor in Blood ^*.

References

• Justin Hall's official website
• biography at USC website
• "Time to get a life -- pioneer blogger Justin Hall bows out at 31", February 20, 2005, San Francisco Chronicle
• Interview on neomarxisme.com (May 05, 2005)
• Yahoo Internet Life, May 2001, "Who let the Blogs out?"
• New York Times Magazine, December 2004

External links

• List of short films from Hall's official site
• List of articles from Hall's official site

Internet pioneers | American bloggers | People from Illinois | 1974 births | Living people | American journalists

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