Rebecca Blood is an internationally known weblogger, writer, and speaker. She has a BA in English and has held more kinds of jobs than you have, including, but not limited to, waitress, nanny, actress, secretary, boat-builder's assistant, evil telemarketer, film production assistant, personal driver, film extra, caterer, web designer, author, speaker, administrative director for a non-profit, and 'special forces' for a small regional magazine. She currently lives in San Francisco.

Rebecca has maintained the popular weblog, Rebecca's Pocket, since April 1999, linking and writing about current events, media literacy, web culture, sustainability, domestic life, and whatever else catches her eye. In September 2000 she published the influential essay Weblogs: A History and Perspective. In July 2002 she published her first book, The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog, which was chosen by the editors of Amazon as one of the best books on digital culture for 2002. Both have been used in university courses throughout the English-speaking world.

Rebecca is frequently called on by the press to illuminate the currently unstoppable weblog phenomenon, and she has discussed online culture in interviews with the New York Times, Newsweek, Fast Company, the BBC, and on National Public Radio. She presented a keynote speech at Blogtalk, the first international conference about weblogs, held in Vienna, Austria May 23-24, 2003. She will next be appearing at PlaNetworks, a conference on sustainability, to be held in San Francisco June 6-8, 2003.