Dylan F. Tweney is an award-winning writer and editor specializing in technology, science and business. He is a senior editor at Wired.com, where he’s responsible for the site’s coverage of gadgets, emerging tech, hackers, robots, and DIY freaks.
Since 2000, Tweney has been publishing tinywords, the world’s smallest magazine. It’s a daily journal that publishes one haiku or micropoem every weekday via the web, email and SMS text messages, and currently reaches more than 3,000 subscribers.
He is a 1991 graduate of Williams College, where he majored in religion and studied poetry under Louise Glück. He has worked as a weed whacker, pizza chef, ESL teacher, and environmental activist, and won the Boston Poetry Slam in 1992.
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I have worked at three content startups and several established national magazines. The work I’ve enjoyed the most has involved creating new editorial products to inform and entertain readers on technical topics of wide-reaching importance.
I was the founding editorial director of PCMagCast, PC Magazine’s channel for live web seminars and online events. Before that, I was executive editor for Mobile, a monthly technology magazine (also known as Mobile PC), where I was part of the founding editorial staff. And I was one of two cofounders of a content syndication startup that fell victim to the dot-com crash.
My writing has appeared in many publications, including weekly columns I wrote for Business 2.0/eCompany Now and, before that, for InfoWorld. In both columns I covered the intersection of business and technology.
The editorial products I’ve managed have won awards:
- a Webby People’s Voice Award for Gadget Lab
- a National Magazine Award nomination for an interactive feature written by Wired.com’s Brian X. Chen and edited by me
- an award for general excellence in online business coverage from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, for the Epicenter blog I managed in 2007
- two Folio FAME awards for online events I produced in 2006
- two “Maggie” awards from the Western Magazine Publishers’ Association (one, two)
- an Editorial Excellence Award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors
Here’s my résumé, and here’s a database of more than 300 articles I’ve published. My professional website/calling card is here: Dylan Tweney, Science/Technology Writer/Editor.
I’ve got a profile on LinkedIn.
Personal stuff: Family pictures on Smugmug. Gory details of house chaos and construction. Random photos on Flickr.
Wired.com publicity mugshot (big) and official bio. Small headshots: one, two, three.
PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS
DIY Freaks Flock to ‘Hacker Spaces’ Worldwide
People worldwide are flocking to hacker spaces like Noisebridge, where like-minded geeks gather to work on personal projects, learn from each other and hang out in a nerd-friendly atmosphere. Like artist collectives in the ’60s and ’70s, hacker spaces are springing up all over. (Wired.com, 2009-03-29)
New Chips Poised to Revolutionize Photography, Film
For the first time, professional-grade single-lens reflex cameras are gaining the ability to record high-definition video. That capability, photographers say, has the potential to transform both still photography and moviemaking — and it’s largely thanks to advances in the semiconductor technology used to make the image sensors inside these cameras. (Wired.com, 2008-10-09)
So Long, Bill Gates, and Thanks for the Monopoly
He’s a merciless competitor, a shameless “fan” of other people’s ideas and an unapologetic monopolist. And because of all that, Bill Gates has done more to create the thriving computer industry than anybody else. (Wired.com, 2008-06-27)
What’s Inside Your Laptop?
This is the story of how quartz becomes a computer, and it’s a story that—for the typical notebook computer—stretches across nearly every continent, dozens of countries, and literally hundreds of different companies. (PC Magazine, 2007-03-14)
Blast to the Past
To decode da Vinci, you need a firm grasp of art. To learn from Archimedes, you need to get your hands on something a bit more sophisticated. Like a synchrotron that accelerates electrons to nearly the speed of light to produce x-rays. (WIRED, 2006-07-01)
Mobile Film School
How to get the most out of your camcorder–even if you don’t have Spielberg’s talent or Lucas’s budget. A detailed 10-page feature, including lots of tips and reviews, from the final issue of Mobile. (PDF) (Mobile, November 2005)
Palm Today, Gone Tomorrow
Palm is about to make the biggest decision of its corporate life: Switch to Windows, or face oblivion. (Mobile, November 2005)
What’s On Your Mobile: Arthur C. Clarke
My interview with science fiction novelist and comsat inventor Arthur C. Clarke. (PDF) (Mobile PC, March 2004)
eMate: Technology that never had a chance.
Eulogy for a doomed laptop. (Salon, 1998-03-17)
Searching is My Business: A Gumshoe’s Guide to the Web.
How to search the Web, film noir style. 1996 Maggie Award Winner, Best How-To Article. (PC World, December 1996)
For a more complete list of articles I’ve published over the past few years, check out my database of more than 300 published articles.
