Global Speaker Pages for O'Reilly Conferences

Joshua Schachter recently nagged us about the fact that our conference pages don't track speakers and sessions across conferences. He wrote in email: "why not make every bio page be global across all conferences, so that a given speaker at many different conferences can be tracked over time?"

Conference web producer Mark Levitt just wrote to let me know that he's given Joshua his wish. You can now see the history of our conference speakers at our conferences. (Unfortunately, the data goes back only to 2000.) Follow the link to Joshua's name above to see that he spoke at ETech in 2004, 2005, and 2007, at the Web 2.0 Summit in 2005, and the Web 2.0 Expo in 2007. Or heck, I'll just show you the page:

Here's the speaking history for a few other speakers from the more than 3000 who've appeared at O'Reilly conferences since 2000:

• Tim O'Reilly (yours truly)
• Rael Dornfest
• Brady Forrest
• Nat Torkington
• Marc Hedlund
• Allison Randal
• Clay Shirky
• Eric Schmidt
• Jeff Bezos
• Caterina Fake
• David Heinemeier Hansson
• Guido van Rossum
• Rasmus Lerdorf
• Larry Wall
• Larry Lessig
• Cory Doctorow
• Brian Aker
• Mitch Kapor
• Joi Ito
• Brewster Kahle
• Mary Hodder
• Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz
• Schuyler Erle
• Jane McGonigal

(We're working on making a global search page public -- right now, it's internal only -- so you can look up the speaker of your choice. Links also appear on individual speaker pages for current conferences.)

Thanks, Mark!