Ethan Marcotte
Ethan Marcotte is a respected standards authority who hails from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the founder of Vertua Studios, a standards-friendly design shop that has enjoyed working with such clients as New York Magazine and Harvard University.
Ethan was a contributing writer to Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design and Web Standards Creativity (forthcoming), and is a much sought-after technical editor. He spends entirely too much time working and learning online, though you’d be hard pressed to tell that by looking at his infrequently-updated personal site.
And naturally, Ethan would like to be an unstoppable robot ninja when he grows up. Beep.

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