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About Dylan

At work, onstage at MobileBeat 2011 in San Francisco.

Professional Bio

Dylan Tweney is an award-winning writer and editor specializing in technology, science and business.

He is currently the executive editor at VentureBeat, a news site devoted to covering the technology revolution and its impact on business and daily life.

Previously, he was senior editor at Wired.com, where he was responsible for the site's gadget news, product reviews, and also had stints running business and science coverage. Since 2000, Tweney has been publishing tinywords, the world's smallest magazine.

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.

More details

I have worked at four content startups (including my current job) 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 eCompany Now and then Business 2.0 and, before that, for InfoWorld. In both columns I covered the intersection of business and technology.

Personal stuff

Random photos on Flickr.

On the side, I run an educational site providing information on SMS text messaging.

Experimental feed attempting to show everything I publish online.

Here's my résumé, though my LinkedIn profile provides a more complete picture (including recommendations).

Need a photo of my mug? Here's my official Wired.com publicity mugshot (big) and official bio. Smaller, more casual headshots: one, two, three.

Home page: tweney.com.