- Rafe Needleman
Rafe Needleman is a
magazine andwebsite editor and publishedauthor . He wrote aStar Trek trivia book in 1980 and has covered technology and business since 1988.tar Trek book
As a young man, Needleman wrote the book "The Official Star Trek Trivia Book" which was published by
Pocket Books . [cite book
last = Needleman
first = Rafe
title = The Official Star Trek Trivia Book
publisher = Pocket Books
date = 1980
location = New York
pages = 205
url = http://www.amazon.com/OFFICIAL-TRIVIA-MASTER-NEEDLEMAN-ORIGANIAN/dp/B000H1BKZ6
isbn = 9780671830908]Tech columnist
He started covering technology at
InfoWorld as a reviews editor. Following that, he launched Corporate Computing magazine, and then moved on to become manager of advanced technologies for ZD Labs. In 1995, he became editor-in-chief of "Byte". He joinedCNET as editor of CNET.com, shortly after it started in 1997.In 1998 he moved to Red Herring, as editorial director of the Events department. After a year he became editor of Redherring.com and started writing Catch of the Day, a column about startups, which was emailed to over 150,000 subscribers every weekday. [cite website | url = http://www.rafeneedleman.com/about.html | title = Rafe Needleman| website = http://www.rafeneedleman.com/about.html | date = 21 October 2007 | accessdate = 2007-10-21]
After Red Herring folded, he continued to review cutting edge technology, both online and in print, for a Business 2.0 column called What’s Next. He returned to CNET in 2004 as editor of business technology and started the blog Webware in 2006. [cite website | url = http://podcast.cnet.com/ | title = 'CNET Launches Webware'-Shoutblog | website = http://podcast.cnet.com |http://www.buzzshout.com/shoutblog/2006/11/07/cnet-launches-webware/ date = 7 November 2006 | accessdate = 2007-10-21]
He is also co-host of CNET's "The Real Deal", podcast (co-hosted with
Tom Merritt ) dealing with consumer technology. [cite website | url = http://podcast.cnet.com/ | title = CNET Podcast Central | website = http://podcast.cnet.com | date = 19 October 2007 | accessdate = 2007-10-21]References
External links
* [http://www.rafeneedleman.com/ Rafe Needleman's personal blog]
* [http://realdeal.cnet.com/ The Real Deal podcast]
* [http://www.webware.com/ Webware blog]
* [http://www.catchoday.com/ Rafe Needleman's Catch of the Day column]
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