About this Site

Credits

The Allen Ginsberg Trust would like to extend special thanks to the following people and organizations for their contributions to AllenGinsberg.org.

dataWonk, Inc. »

 Web strategy, design and development

Jesse Goodman »

Volunteer to the Allen Ginsberg Trust by night and marketing and Web professional by day.

Peter Hale »

Current staff member at The Allen Ginsberg Trust and personal friend and assistant to Allen from 1992 until his death.

Bob Rosenthal »

Current Trustee of the Allen Ginsberg Trust, friend and secretary to Allen for twenty years, poet and writer, adjunct Professor of English at New York Technical College, occasional workshop instructor at The Poetry Project, Snug Harbor, and Naropa Institute. Currently writing an account of the business of Allen Ginsberg.

Dan Meth »

Illustrator and animator, Dan donated time and energy to create the splash.

Michael Schumacher

Allen's biographer, Michael wrote the bio for this site.

Todd Buechler

Friend of the Trust, Todd registered our first domain name.

Robert Bullock

Friend of the Trust, Robert hosted our first site from his hallway closet — quite possibly the only time Allen was ever in the closet.

Jerry Aronson

Friend of the Trust, Jerry donated video footage.

Gyula Gazdag

Friend of the Trust, Gyula donated more video footage.

Jeff Morey

Friend of the Trust, Jeff donated time and energy to encode the video to QuickTime.

Wallpaper

We’ve had several questions regarding the symbol known as “Buddha’s Footprint” used in the wallpaper or background for this site, so we’ve included a link to more about this image here.

Technology

AllenGinsberg.org was developed with strict adherance to web-standards such as XHTML and CSS. This allows AllenGinsberg.org to:
  1. make content accessible to all browsers, including those designed for individuals with disabilities
  2. render content as-designed — in other words, look great — in modern, standards-compliant browsers. This is critical to the future of humanity. Well...maybe not...but certainly to the future of the Web. Read on »
  3. be forward-compatible with emerging web standards like XML and CSS2. Rest assured this site will still look great in Netscape 10 — should it come to pass... Bets, anyone?
  4. support growth by relying on proven, cost-effective, off-the-shelf middleware and database technology