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Streaming Magazine named Jim to its list of “Top 25 Most Influential New Media Figures” in its May 2000 issue. Jim, however, prefers the written word to any other media. “I like the hum, the shimmer of good prose,” he says.

His online writing credits include film criticism and reviews for a groundbreaking internet video site hailed by USA Today as “a gem," and lauded by US News and World Report for a "wealth of great viewing." Access Magazine crowned the site as 'Best of the Web' in the entertainment category. With a variation on the practice of reverse engineering, rather than migrate TV programming to the web, he executive-produced a TV show derived from the web site's content. The show aired in Los Angeles and Philadelphia broadcast markets.

Jim is a member of New Jersey's Bergen County Historical Society, and also produces an American History blog at Footnotes Since the Wilderness.

In the mid 1990's, prior to co-founding a company and leading it through a NASDAQ IPO, Jim was the primary writer and publisher of StreetSignals, whose paid subscriber base included individual investors as well as brokers. StreetSignals, a daily digest of public company news, with a focus on emerging ‘story stocks,’ was also distributed via online financial newsletter kiosks and to Bloomberg terminals.

Rupp taught "Critical Reading and Writing" and "Business Communications" courses at the University of Delaware, where he studied for a Master’s degree in English. He earned his BA in Literature and Creative Writing, with a minor in Philosophy, at Binghamton University. At present, his reading interests include history (United States, in particular), biography, polar exploration, the history of technology, science fiction, and literary fiction, “but that’s always evolving,” he adds.

“Director of a Public Library” is on his resume, and he has worked extensively on records management, indexing and abstracting projects. He's also had numerous poems published in venues such as Seranata, Clarendon, and Border Watch.

After researching alternative opportunities, he chose to write for Suite101. “The effort that some Suite101 authors put into producing focused, polished prose pieces is evident. I've found writers I admire here. It’s an oasis. It stands apart from the extraneous noise you find elsewhere, and I look forward to learning as much as I can from the Suite101 community.”