Dave Green (journalist)
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Dave Green is a journalist
Journalist
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, broadcaster
Presenter
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 and snack food
Snack food
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 expert. He was Production Editor on Amiga Power
Amiga Power
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magazine (who claimed he was an alien
Extraterrestrial life
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) and Reviews Editor for the brief UK edition of Wired magazine. Together with Danny O'Brien
Danny O'Brien
Danny O'Brien is an English technology journalist and civil liberties activist. He wrote weekly columns for the Sunday Times and the Irish Times; and before that for The Guardian, and acted as a consultant in helping The Guardian formulate its online strategy. He worked for the UK edition of...

, he is jointly responsible for publishing the email newsletter Need To Know. He also publishes Snackspot, the "world's premier snack food discussion site", and is technology correspondent for the Phill Jupitus
Phill Jupitus
Phillip Christopher Jupitus is an English stand-up and improvised comedian, actor, performance poet, musician and podcaster....

 breakfast programme on BBC 6Music.

He was primary organiser of the UK grassroots technology conferences Extreme Computing, NotCon04, and Open Tech 2005. He lives in London
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, England
England
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.

Dave Green graduated from University College, Oxford
University College, Oxford
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 in 1990, and was a postgraduate in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
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. He worked with Ben Moor on BBC2's Big Science series, and with Kevin Cecil
Kevin Cecil
Kevin Robert Cecil is a British screenwriter.Writing alongside Andy Riley , he has won two BAFTA awards, the first for writing the Comic Relief one-off special, Robbie the Reindeer, in 2000, and the second for Black Books in 2005...

 and Andy Riley
Andy Riley
Andy Riley is a British author, cartoonist, comics scriptwriter, and television screenwriter.Riley has written several best-selling cartoon books, The Book of Bunny Suicides , Return of the Bunny Suicides, The Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides, Dawn of the Bunny Suicides, Great Lies To Tell Small...

 on The 99p Challenge
The 99p Challenge
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.

External links

*Dave Green's personal site (since disowned)
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