Rather than reading the stilted self-puffery we would produce, please weave something together in your own words that you think will make your audience comfortable with David's credibility and background.
Here are some facts - little nuggets of stilted self-puffery - that you might find useful:
Co-author of the best-seller The Cluetrain Manifesto, which InformationWeek called the most important business book since Tom Peter's In Search of Excellence. The author of the critically-acclaimed Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web. The author of Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
Latest book: Too Big to Know about how the Net is transforming knowledge and expertise.
He is a senior researcher at Harvard Law's Berkman Center for the Internet & Society, Co-Director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School, and is a Franklin Fellow at the United States State Department (2009-2011)
Has been published in a wide variety of journals, including Wired and Harvard Business Review many times, as well as in Scientific American, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Foreign Policy, Salon, USA Today, the Boston Globe, The Guardian...even TV Guide.
Senior Internet Advisor to the Howard Dean campaign (worked on Internet policy)
Called a "marketing guru" by the Wall Street Journal
Is a strategic marketing consultant to big name companies, as well as to small, innovative ones.
Wrote
gags for Woody Allen's comic strip for seven years. [Note: This raises
expectations I can't fulfill. And please note that I wrote for his
comic strip, not for his movies.]
Has a Ph.D. in philosophy (from the Univ. of Toronto) and taught philosophy in college for 6 years
Has been a frequent commentator on National Public Radio
Columnist
Early and well-known blogger.
Has been a dot-com entrepreneur and serves on the advisory boards of some well-known and some not-yet-known tech companies
Is frequently cited by national and international news media
Lives in Boston