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# People You Need to Know: Part 1
- URL: https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/people-you-need-to-know-part-1/
- Published: 2010-09-03T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2010-09-03T04:00:00.000Z
- Author: CJ Chilvers

Instead of the typical Follow Friday thing that Twitterites do, I find that the people who really deserve to be followed, really deserve more than 140 characters.

For the first installment, I’ve randomly chosen 3 of these people - mostly because I only had a few minutes of free time:

**Patrick Rhone**: I discovered Patrick’s main blog a long while ago and returned to it every so often, because I loved the design. Something happened this past year, though, and he’s really taken it up a notch. My favorite of his sites is [Practical Opacity](http://practicalopacity.com/?ref=cjchilvers.com). Every post is not only interesting, but useful to every day life (how rare is that?). His most popular site is [Minimal Mac](http://minimalmac.com/?ref=cjchilvers.com), but you can also find his random posts on…[The Random Post](http://therandompost.com/?ref=cjchilvers.com).

**Nick Cernis**: Nick is best known as the guy behind the iPhone app [Put Things Off](http://putthingsoff.com/?ref=cjchilvers.com), but it’s his blog - now titled [Modern Nerd](http://modernerd.com/?ref=cjchilvers.com) \- that encourages me to believe that someone out there really gets it. His article, [Rise of the Tablog](http://modernerd.com/post/346654926/rise-of-the-tablog?ref=cjchilvers.com), was a big hit when everyone in the world seemed to link to it, but the entire archive of his blog is worth a read (good thing it isn’t very large yet). In particular, I love his [contrarian view on personal branding](http://modernerd.com/post/573295082/on-personal-sub-branding?ref=cjchilvers.com).

**Adam Howell**: Back in 2003 or 2004, I hired an increasingly popular blogger/web designer for a new site I needed built for the Association of Music Writers and Photographers. It was the smoothest web project I’ve ever been a part of and never forgot the name. I looked him up on Twitter years later. I’m not at all sure he’s the same Adam Howell, but this guy always has [something to say](https://twitter.com/ahow?ref=cjchilvers.com) that cuts through the techno news crap.