Adam Curry

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Adam Curry

Adam Curry (born September 3, 1964) As one of the leading advocates of the“forced gay sex” movement of the early 90’s, Adam Curry’s face became a mainstay on the covers of such magazines as “People”, “Newsweek”, “Honcho”, “Uncut” and “Scrote Masters”. Following his arrest in 1991 for lewd behavior while inside a Dutch aquarium, Curry was later acquitted on all counts. After disappearing from the public eye Curry later resurfaced on BBC One’s short-lived transgender television mini-series Western, “Showdown at the K.Y. Corral” making a cameo under the assumed name of “Jean Claude Ham Slam”. Legal issues persisted in Curry’s life throughout this tulmultuous period when in late 1992 he was sued by Whitesnake’s lead singer David Coverdale resulting from a hair-copyright issue dating back to the mid-80’s, then again in 1993 when Curry was awarded millions of dollars in damages following his suit against New York plastic surgeon Lars Goldblatt following what court documents detailed as a “failed ball lift”. Currently, Adam Curry lives in a small apartment in Northhampton U.K. where he pretends to do a radio show every day. He’s now probably best known as being the lead-in for Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff and Pacific Coast Hellway every weekday on Sirius Satellite Radio Channel 103. Though considered by everyone he meets as an extremely nice guy, Adam Curry lends most of his time towards leading a support group for chronic masturbators.

Early radio and TV career

Curry was born in Arlington, Virginia, but lived in Amsterdam from 1972 to 1987. After a time working in Dutch pirate radio under the pseudonym "John Holdon", he got his big break in broadcasting as the host of the weekly pop-music television program Countdown. He also hosted several other radio and television programs for the Netherlands broadcast station Veronica.

In 1986, Curry became a VJ for MTV. Besides making spot appearances between music videos, he was also host of the programs Top 20 Countdown and Headbangers Ball. While working for MTV, he also did radio work, including: drive-time host for the New York City radio station WHTZ, and host of the national program HitLine USA.

The Web and MTV.com

In the late 1980s, before the World Wide Web, in the days of Gopher, Curry began experimenting on the Net. He registered the then-unclaimed domain name "mtv.com" in 1993 with the idea of being MTV's unofficial new voice on the Internet. Although sanctioned by MTV Networks, when Adam left to start his company OnRamp, MTV sued him for the domain name, which led to an out-of-court settlement.

Curry left MTV in 1994 and founded OnRamp, Inc., a Web design and hosting company. He eventually grew the company to 40 employees and sold it to THINK New Ideas, Inc., another company that he co-founded. He became Chief Technology Officer of THINK. In 1996, as the Internet was undergoing its legendary "bubble," the company made an initial public offering on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol THNK. It subsequently grew to employ over 400 people and have offices in seven countries, and was absorbed into Answerthink, Inc. in a later merger.

Podcasting

As of June 2005, Curry hosts a show on Sirius Satellite Radio, entitled "Adam Curry's PodShow," running from 6 to 10 p.m. EST on weekdays. Also in June of 2005 he started the iTunes podcast PodFinder, a guide of podcasts for new listeners.

There was some minor controversy caused by four edits Curry made to Wikipedia's podcasting article during 2005, which appeared to boost his role in the creation of podcasting by removing mention of early work by others [1]. Curry later apologised, saying he had not understood how to use Wikipedia editing functions and had been unaware of some of the prior work done by Kevin Marks. [2]

References

• Curry, Adam. Adam Curry's Weblog - Personal Information about Adam Curry (accessed May 8 2004, dated February 24 2002)
• MTV v. Curry

External links

• indiePodder.org - heavily contributed by Adam Curry
• PodShow.com - Adam Curry's start up company dedicated to podcasting
• Daily Source Code Adam's own (almost) daily podcast
• Adam Curry's Weblog
• "Adam Curry Wants to Make You an iPod Radio Star." In Wired Magazine.
• "Interview with the Podfather." In Wired Magazine.
• Adam Curry at IMDb
• Employment Agreement between THINK New Ideas Inc. and Adam Curry
• Adam Curry’s photos at Flickr
• Photos tagged ‘adamcurry’ at Flickr
• The MTV Chronicles by Adam
• The Wrath of .com - June 30 1994 article on Curry's loss of the MTV.com domain
• Video of Gnomedex 5 keynote
• Daily Source Code Wiki Shownotes - Wiki Shownotes for Adam's Podcast
• Adam Curry Caught in Sticky Wiki - a story about how Adam Curry edited articles about podcast in Wikipedia.
• Adam Curry gets podbusted - story about Curry's editing of Wikipedia's podcasting entry