Adam Finley passes away

I wrote with a gentleman named Adam Finley on both AdJab and TVSquad when I was still employed by Weblogs, Inc before they shut down AJ. He was a good guy and put up some fun stuff, always able to sniff out a funny video or two and writing some absolutely insane lists and such. I had my issues with him – I’m not going to gloss over that – but on the whole respected that he was bringing a unique sense of humor to AJ that nicely balanced out the more industry wonkish perspective Tom Biro and I had.

Adam was killed late last week in a bike accident at the age of 30. Tom informed me of that yesterday and TVS today is dedicating today to re-running some of Adam’s best posts. I highly recommend heading over there throughout the day and checking out his stuff. You can also see Adam’s AdJab contributions here.
According to Engadget Adam didn’t have any identification on him, leading his family to wonder about his whereabouts for days and authorities to not be able to find out who he was. The only thing he had with him was his iPod, which police later took to an Apple store, where they were able to use the serial number to give them a name, finally giving his family the information they were looking for.

My thoughts and prayers are with Adam’s family.