Tara Calishain on Muck Rack

Tara Calishain

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North Carolina
Covers:  search engines, databases, archives, citizen science, digital impermanence, online learning, etc
Doesn't Cover: enterprise computing, software languages/programming, SEO

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Tara Calishain’s Biography

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I've been writing about search engines and the Internet since 1996. My especially interest is search engines, archives, databases, and other online information collections. Wrote or co-wrote a bunch of books, including GOOGLE HACKS, INFORMATION TRAPPING, OFFICIAL NETSCAPE GUIDE TO INTERNET RESEARCH (give me a break, it was 1996) and WEB SEARCH GARAGE.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, though I learned touch typing from my mother's old leftover typing books, "practicing" on the keyboard layout printed on the back cover.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email is best, text if you must, please don't call me unless Willy Wonka just bought Google and I get all the golden tickets.

When's the best time to pitch you?

I don't really have one. I tend to be awake earlier rather than later.