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Dylan Tweney

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I’m Dylan Tweney, a San Mateo, California-based writer and editor. I focus on technology and science, and I work in print, online, audio, and video.

On this website, you can learn more about Dylan Tweney, read my blog, check out the acts of journalism I've committed, or find out what writing and editing services I offer.

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  • Gadget Lab 2007-2008.
    Here’s a snapshot of what I’ve been working on the past two years. Page views on Wired’s Gadget Lab blog, 2007-2008: In the past year, our monthly traffic has increased more than 3x. Gadget Lab is currently the #20 blog in Technorati’s index of the top-ranked blogs worldwide: Gadget Lab Technorati profile.
  • Unwarranted optimism about the publishing industry.
    I’m quoted in Folio magazine’s annual survey of editors and publishers, making an uncharacteristically wild-eyed prediction about how great things are going to be in 2009: In 2009, we’ll see even more magazine startups, as entrepreneurs with funding (or un-maxed-out credit cards) seize the twin opportunities of cheap journalistic labor and lower competitive barriers to start [...]
  • Journalism and PR in the new media age.
    As the publishing industry collapses, it’s becoming clear that both journalists and public relations people need to change the way they work. Amazingly, it’s still possible to find journalists throwing hissy fits about email blasts or blacklisting PR people for showing insufficient deference. This kind of behavior might have been understandable a few years ago when [...]
  • Social networking comes of age.
    If anyone doubted the power and importance of online social networks, the election of Barack Obama should have put that to rest. Much has been made of the Obama campaign’s use of the internet as an organizing, fundraising and marketing tool. The core of that strategy was a social network, MyBarackObama.com, which probably now qualifies [...]
  • Geotagging the news.
    Imagine that news stories and blog posts could be tied to a geographic area. If lots of news publishers and bloggers did this, you could: Search Google News for stories from a specific neighborhood, like “Hyde Park in Chicago,” or a general region, like “within 50 miles of Three Mile Island.” Find all the blog posts about [...]
  • New chips transform photography, video.
    While I was on vacation, a feature story I wrote earlier in the month got published on Wired. It’s about the technological progress in CMOS imaging chips, and why the tech is making it possible, for the first time, to record video on a digital single-lens reflex camera. Photographers are really excited about the possibilities that [...]
  • Where’s my freaking bailout?
    I’m angry enough about the prospect of a stupidly conceived financial industry bailout that I wrote the following letter to my state Representative, Jackie Speier, as well as Senators Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Barack Obama and John McCain. I would have sent a copy to Rep. Barney Frank as well, since he is playing a [...]
  • What Google needs to do now to save Android.
    Today’s debut of the T-Mobile G1 is the first public appearance of an almost fully-baked consumer "Googlephone" — a phone based on Google’s Android operating system. There’s just one problem: There is no Googlephone. And that’s something Google must fix, and fast, if it wants its mobile operating system to succeed. Granted, Google’s Android operating system has [...]
  • Mobile industry presents huge opportunities for startups.
    The mobile industry offers enormous opportunity right now for entrepreneurs who can create excellent user experiences. And doing that doesn’t require a degree in rocket science or access to high-end technology. Startups like Jaiku and Twitter have created huge communities of excited, engaged followers based on little more than SMS, an antiquated text-messaging system that limits [...]
  • One deer, one owl in flight, six or eight rabbits, and 17 miles.
    The sun was rising behind the hills over Crystal Springs reservoir this morning at 6:20am, but you couldn’t see it yet. There was just enough light to brighten the overcast sky and to make the threaded wisps of mist rising off the slate-dark water stand out clearly. But the day hadn’t properly begun, and all [...]
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