Andy Baio is a writer and coder who loves making things. His most recent projects are XOXO, a festival and conference celebrating indie artists and hackers, and Playfic, a community for writing and sharing interactive fiction. He helped build Kickstarter, produced Kind of Bloop, and created Upcoming.org, the collaborative event calendar acquired by Yahoo in 2005. Original reporting on his blog, Waxy.org, has been featured in the New York Times, Wired, and NPR.