Carmen Hermosillo

Carmen Hermosillo (died August 10, 2008), A.K.A. humdog, was a community manager/research analyst, essayist, and poet. A contributor to "2GQ" (now "New Oregon Arts & Letters"), "FringeWare Review", "wired", and "Leonardo", Peter Ludlow's "High Noon on the Electronic Frontier", and "How to Mutate and Take Over the World", she was a participant in many online communities including early chat rooms and internet forums such as The WELL, BBSs, and later activities such as "Second Life".
In 1994 she published a widely influential essay online, "Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace", in which she argued that the result of computer networks had led to, not a reduction in hierarchy, but actually a commodification of personality and a complex transfer of power and information to companies.