Steve Champeon

Steven Champeon possesses a skillset best described by the wary as 'eclectic', having run through carpentry, pizza delivery, professional blood testing guinea pig, and SGML document conversion operator, to achieve new heights as founder and List Mom of WebDesign-L and co-founder of the Web Standards Project. He has been an author and editor of technical books on Web development and related topics, including many articles in print and online venues; his towering achievement is to have taken other people's best ideas and smashed them together into the concept of "progressive enhancement" in Web design.

Lately he's been resting on his laurels and spending all his free time fighting spam. His antispam package, EnemiesList, is used by ISPs, state governments, and Web hosting providers and is available in limited beta release to the public. He's served on the advisory boards for SxSW Interactive and the CMP/Miller-Freeman Web conferences and is good with kids. He is CTO of hesketh.com/inc in Raleigh, NC USA where he tries to keep the servers running. Despite all you may have heard, he's a pretty nice guy.