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Daniel Terdiman is a journalist

Journalist

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, who has been published in both print and non-print media, including Time Magazine
Time (magazine)
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, The New York Times
The New York Times
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, Wired Magazine
Wired (magazine)
Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...

, CNET News.com
CNET
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, Wired News
Wired News
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, Martha Stewart Weddings
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, Salon.com
Salon.com
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, Business 2.0
Business 2.0
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, and the San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
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. He writes about a wide range of subjects from hi-tech

High tech

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to the web

World Wide Web

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to sport

Sport

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s.

He has also made speaking appearances at hi-tech conferences as an expert on electronic game development, including: State of Play, Webzine, SVForum, and Sex in Video Games. He has also written extensively about the online game Second Life

Second Life

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. He has been a game development advisor for US National Public Radio (NPR) for the Talk of the Nation

Talk of the Nation

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broadcast and for the BBC

BBC

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in the UK.

He edited and contributed as an author to Drama in the Desert (ISBN 0972178902 and ISBN 978-0972178907), a book about the annual Burning Man

Burning Man

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arts festival, held in the Nevada

Nevada

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Desert. He wrote The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life: Making Money in the Metaverse (ISBN 0470179147 and ISBN 978-0470179147). He was the panel moderator at the Game Developers' Conference 2007

Game Developers Conference

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, on the topic of Burning Man.

He holds a Masters of Science degree in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Columbia University

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. He currently works as a senior staff writer for CNET News.com. Terdiman won the 2006 online journalism award from the Society of Professional Journalists, as part of the CNET team who won this award for the series Taking Back the Web.

Works

As CNET
CNET
CNET is a tech media website that publishes news articles, blogs, and podcasts on technology and consumer electronics. Originally founded in 1994 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie, it was the flagship brand of CNET Networks and became a brand of CBS Interactive through CNET Networks' acquisition...

staff writer and published by CNET News.com
CNET
CNET is a tech media website that publishes news articles, blogs, and podcasts on technology and consumer electronics. Originally founded in 1994 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie, it was the flagship brand of CNET Networks and became a brand of CBS Interactive through CNET Networks' acquisition...

As Wired.com
Wired News
Wired News is an online technology news website, formerly known as HotWired, that split off from Wired magazine when the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast Publishing in the 1990s. Wired News was owned by Lycos not long after the split, until Condé Nast purchased Wired News on July 11, 2006...

staff writer

List of 193 articles by Daniel Terdiman for Wired.com and Wired Magazine as published online at Wired.com (archive from 2007-02-08 at 09:35:37)

Works

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