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 Daniel Terdiman is an award-winning Senior Writer covering video games and the culture of technology for CNET News.com, one of the best-read technology news publications in the world. As such, he has developed a reputation as a leading writer about Second Life and other virtual worlds whose work is often followed by other national publications. Daniel has a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and 11 years' professional experience. He has written for The New York Times, Time Magazine, Wired magazine, Wired News, Business 2.0, The American Lawyer and other publications. Daniel is known as one of the leading writers on the culture of technology, and his work has been widely cited on blogs and Internet sites like Boing Boing, Metafilter, Slashdot, Digg, Fark, Terra Nova and others. Daniel has been writing regularly about the virtual world Second Life since 2003 and has become one of the world's leading experts on the subject. As such, he has been interviewed about Second Life and similar topics by NPR, the BBC, Business Week, Business 2.0 and other media. He is well-known by many influential members of the Second Life community, including the leaders of several of the largest third-party developers of Second Life projects such as projects for clients like Toyota, General Motors, the rapper Jay-Z, Popular Science magazine, Major League Baseball, Reuters, Coca-Cola and many others. Daniel spearheaded the project to build and launch a CNET bureau in Second Life - the first mainstream news organization's permanent presence there - and since the launch has personally been conducting an interview series at the bureau that has brought in some of the biggest names in the technology world, including Joi Ito, Esther Dyson, Philip Rosedale and others. And as part of this project, Daniel is leading the effort to get many more CNET reporters involved, and as a result, executives from companies like Dell, IBM and others will soon be sitting for interviews at CNET's Second Life bureau. As a speaker, Daniel has moderated and appeared on panels and discussions at influential conferences like the Game Developers Conference, the Austin Games Conference, South by Southwest, State of Play, Webzine, Sex in Video Games and others. At the recent Austin Games Conference, Daniel's panel on "Burning Man and Online Games" was called by one attendee, "By far the best panel of the conference." |