Tristan Louis

Tristan Louis (born February 28, 1971) is an author, entrepreneur and blogger who has run the site TNL.net since 1994.

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Then the publisher of iWorld (now known as Internet.com), part of the Mecklermedia group of Internet online media companies, Louis first became involved in online politics on Usenet, particularly the newsgroup alt.internet.media-coverage, during debate over the Communications Decency Act and activism against it. In a joint effort with the EFF and the Voters Telecommunications Watch, iWorld and Mecklermedia publicly endorsed a national day of protest http://www.jupitermedia.com/corporate/releases/96.02.09-protest.html, turning the background of web pages around the world to black. The protest received national news coverage and was a catalyst in the planning for a lawsuit (Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union) which went to the United States Supreme Court and reaffirmed First Amendment protection for Internet publishers.

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After leaving iWorld, Louis contributed to many publications as a freelance writer, including a popular line of introductions to the internet, and was also involved in several start-ups, including Earthweb and Net Quotient, a consulting group. At Earthweb, Louis reprised his role of editor, hoping to reproduce the early success of iWorld http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/248321.

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From 1999 to early 2000, Louis joined the short-lived dotcom Boo.com; when the company failed, he wrote a detailed analysis of the challenges the company had faced http://www.tnl.net/who/bibliography/what_I_learned_at_boo.com/, offering some context in terms of running large scale websites, which was widely circulated.

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In the early 2000s, Louis was involved in the development community surrounding RSS and podcasting.

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