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Speaker Bio: David Lawrence
 David Lawrence, OnlineTonight.com
New media expert David Lawrence is heard nightly as the wacky, eclectic and highly opinionated host of The David Lawrence Show, and weekend Online Tonight, both nationally syndicated radio talk shows that revolves around pop culture and the high-tech lifestyle. The award-winning shows combine entertainment, information, interviews and news with the speed and humor of a Top-40 morning show. The three-hour daily call-in shows air Monday through Saturday from 10 PM to 1 AM ET, and is repeated on Sunday evenings from 10 PM to 1 AM ET, and is heard on over 80 radio stations, including WGN/Chicago, KFBK/Sacramento, KNEW/San Francisco as well as on both Sirius Satellite Radio Talk Central 148 and XM Radio Extreme XM 152.
"I'm an objectivist," says Lawrence. "I scare conservatives with my attitudes, which revolve around owning our behavior and actions, and following the letter of the law. Respect for other's creations, the unabashed celebration of capitalism and the pure honesty of living our lives in a republic of laws are the cornerstones of my show - and all these people who rationalize their behavior in the name of pure technology drive me up a wall. I'm not afraid to call them on their actions."
The Emmy-award winning and Clio-nominated Lawrence is deeply rooted in the music industry as well, and also anchors The Net Music Countdown. Syndicated on over 70 radio stations and both satellite radio services in partnership with United Stations, the shows countdown the hottest hits on the Internet, with flavors for alternative rock, CHR and Hot AC. The shows are based on in-house research, and those charts are licensed as their eTracks Charts by AllAccess.com, for which Lawrence edits the weekly Internet/Digital Music tracking. The NMC eTracks Charts are widely considered the official music charts of the Internet. Reporters to the eTracks include Apple's iTunes Music Store, AandE.com Radio, About Radio, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, BellSouth.com, Bolt Radio, B&N Radio, CDNow.com, Gracenote/CDDB, Launch.Yahoo.com, MusicMatch.co, Radio Free Virgin, Radio Lycos, Real One, Radio@AOL, The RadioAMP Network, and over 40 other performance licensed Internet sales and streaming outlets. Both TechTV and CNET use the NMC top 5 for their weekly look at Net music popularity.
Both shows also sport their own podcasts, and Lawrence counts over a dozen Fortune 500 and private companies as podcasting clients.
Lawrence has been on radio for nearly 30 years as a top rated air personality on stations like WMAL, WMZQ and WRQX/Washington DC, WGAR, WGCL, and WDMT/Cleveland, KC101/New Haven, WTAE/Pittsburgh and WNCI and WLVQ/Columbus. He is a founding member and was executive producer of the legendary radio comedy ensemble, the American Comedy Network. He wrote the best-selling Learn HTML on The Macintosh, the first web design book exclusively for Macintosh users.
His is the voice you hate on America Online's customer service lines, as well as the voice of over 1500 other interactive voice response telephone systems - he is one of the most often heard voices in the world, and his past theatre and voice work include the role of El Gallo in The Fantasticks, as well as parts in The Children's Hour, The Good Doctor, Born Yesterday, The Fall of the House of Usher and starred as Barry Champlain in Talk Radio. He has performed on stage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is a lifelong member of Mensa.
Lawrence makes regular appearances as an industry commentator on TechTV, CNN, FOX, CBS, MS-NBC, and Tribune broadcasting outlets as well as the CBC and the BBC, where he is a featured expert on Radio 5 Live's Up All Night. He has delivered keynote addresses, inservice teaching and has served as both moderator and panel member at conferences ranging from MacWorld, CES FOSE and COMDEX to The Micropayment Conference, Gnomedex and the NAB. His dozens of award winning web sites include work featured in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian, the home page for America Online CEO Steve Case, Quincy Jones' Qradio.net site (nominated for a WIRED Reader Rant award), and the AMD Professional Gamer's League site. You can reach him at david@onlinetonight.com or at [http://onlinetonight.com]. Call 818-563-3123 for more details.
Go to sessions for Day 1: Friday, September 29, 2006
Go to sessions for Day 2: Saturday, September 30, 2006
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