Ryan Block

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I’m Ryan Block, co-founder of gdgt, a forthcoming consumer electronics site. I’m also former editor (and current editor-at-large) of Engadget, a web magazine and network of sites focused on obsessive coverage of consumer electronics and technology.

As a technology critic and commentator, I’ve been quoted by the BBC, Business Week, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, and The Wall St. Journal. I have also appeared on such networks as CNN, NPR, PRI, and G4TV. I was also named one of Forbes’s 2007 Web Celeb 25, and, for whatever reason, named one of Paper Magazine’s Beautiful People, 2006.

Prior to gdgt and Engadget, I worked in network engineering before returning to my education in writing and philosophy at the New School University in New York. I currently reside in San Francisco, California with my girlfriend and two cats.

Quoted by: ABC, Ad Age (also here), Business Week, CNET, CNN, The Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian, The New York Times (also here and here), The Street, The Times (also here and here), WSJ

Profiled / featured by: Forbes, Web Celeb 25 (also here), Fortune, ontheinside, T3, Power 50, Wired

Appeared on: All Things D, Attack of the Show (also here), BBC, CNET, CNN, NPR’s All Things Considered, Bryant Park Project, On the Media and Talk of the Nation, PRI’s Fair Game, Free FM, The Tech Guy, Tekzilla, TWiT (also here), XM’s Digital Spin

Also seen and quoted here: Baltimore Sun, Business Insider, CalcanisCast, CEA Digital Dialogue, Cranky Geeks, Digital Cafe, East Meets West, The Gadgeteer, The GigaOM Show (also here), Information Salad (and Side Salad), IT World Canada, KTVU news, Microsoft’s Inside Xbox, NowPublic (50 most influential in the Bay Area), The Palm Beach Post, Paper Magazine, PC World, Preservation Magazine, ScobleShow, Springfield News-Leader, TechCult (Top 100 Web Celebs),  TechRepublic, The Washington Times, Weblogs, Inc. interview

Judging, panels, and consultation: CEA’s i-stage, CES, CTIA Emerging Technology Awards, DHDC, Mobilize, TechCrunch40, Widgets Live!