 | a short history | When
he's not recording jazz/funk-infused indie music,
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tales out of night school | Dan is currently a Senior Editor at CNET.com and a semi-regular TV talking head on outlets including Fox News, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Reuters TV, BBC News and NY1.  Click
over to www.talesoutofnightschool.com
for Dan's third album of jazz/soul-infused indie music, available now at Amazon, iTunes and everywhere music is sold online.
| editorial clips |
recent
> Crazed and Confused (Resident Evil 5 analysis) [Spin] > Is the Beatles Rock Band game too late? [CNET] > Kindle, schmindle...I've got your $350 e-book reader right here [CNET] classic > Eye Tunes [Blender] > Best Ski Resorts for Nightlife [ > The Pulse [amNewYork nightlife column, 2004-2005] | digital city and editor's office hours | Dan currently hosts two progams for CNET. Digital City is a weekly audio podcast about technology and urban living, and Editor's Office Hours is a live 30-minute video webcast where different CNET editors answer viewer questions (Dan can be seen on the NYC edition of Office Hours). | play value | Dan
is currently a regular on Play Value, a new show about video game
history from On Networks. It's available for free
on iTunes, or at PlayValue.tv.
Here's a sample episode.
| discography | Dan
released two indie albums in 2001.
This
Moment Has
Happened
Before and Third
World Order both came out under the Helper Monkey
Records
imprint, and both are still available on iTunes, Napster, Amazon and
pretty
much every place else you’d order music online.
>M.A. in
Public Communications from Fordham University
| contact |>Co-Founder of women's gaming site GameGal.com, named one of PC Magazine's Top 100 Web sites for 2003 >Co-created the infamous Gary Coleman Webathon [archived here] as Senior Editor for UGO.com >Wrote weekly nightlife column in the Tribune-owned newspaper amNewYork (2004-2005) >Editor-in-Chief of Clubplanet.com, 2001-2005 >Founding Editor of Clubplanet Magazine, nationally distributed nightlife publication. >Member of Mensa >Graduate of the Bronx High School of Science >Regular cast member on PlayValue and Best Game Ever danackermannyc
[at] gmail [dotcom]
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This
Moment Has Happened Before
Third
World
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