Ryan Block

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I’m Ryan Block, co-founder of gdgt, a consumer electronics media startup (funded by True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Betaworks, among others). I’m also former editor / editor emeritus 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 the BBC, CNN, NPR, PRI, and G4. 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.

Way back in the day I used to work in network engineering, and also went to the New School University in New York. I currently reside in San Francisco, California with my better half and two cats.

Quoted by: ABC, Ad Age (also here), Business Week, CNET, CNN (also here), The Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian, The New York Times (also here, here, here, here, here), The Street, The Times (also here, 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, MacBreak Weekly (and here), The Tech Guy, Tekzilla, TWiST, TWiT, XM’s Digital Spin

Also seen and quoted here: AppleTell, Baltimore Sun, BornRich, Business Insider, CalcanisCast, Cult of Mac, CEA Digital Dialogue, Cranky Geeks, CNN, Digital Cafe, East Meets West, EETimes, Embedded.com, First and 20, The Gadgeteer, Geek Sugar, The GigaOM Show (also here), The Huffington Post, Information Salad (and Side Salad), IT World Canada, KTVU news, Microsoft’s Inside Xbox, Macworld, Macrumors, The New York Post, NowPublic (50 most influential in the Bay Area), The Palm Beach Post, Paper Magazine, PC World, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Preservation Magazine, Reporters Roundtable, ScobleShow, Springfield News-Leader, The Street, TechCult (Top 100 Web Celebs),  TechRepublic, The Telegraph, This Week in Startups, TUAW, The Washington Times, VentureBeat, Weblogs, Inc. interview, Wired

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