Daniel Bowen
Daniel Bowen is a Melbourne resident best known as the author of the Diary of an Average Australian, one of the first blogs to appear on the World Wide Web. Bowen has published this blog continuously since 1996. His other web articles include Toxic Custard, sent weekly to a mailing list and posted to Usenet group rec.humor (under the title "Toxic Custard Workshop Files") since August 1990. TCWF started out as a humour journal covering and parodying subjects such as religion, science fiction, history and technology; however, over the years it has gradually changed into a diary, and today is mostly a compilation of the passing week's blog posts.
He is also known as a prominent lobbyist for improved public transport in his capacity as President of the Public Transport Users Association, a position he has held since 2003. He is a frequent media commentator on public transport issues.