He earned his Master’s from the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2000, and went to work for Condé Nast’s Wired magazine before moving to its sister website Wired News, where he covered the convergence of technology and culture. In 2002 he co-authored Dungeons and Dreamers, a book on the history of computer games, virtual worlds and their effects on American culture for McGraw-Hill. In 2004, he was hired as the senior editor and the online producer for MIT’s Technology Review. He’s currently on the advisory boards for South by Southwest Interactive Conference and Carnegie Mellon’s ETC Press. On a more personal note: he’s from a small town in northern Appalachia, just outside of Cincinnati.