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Jason Snell (born October 6, 1970 in Oakland, California) is an American writer and editor whose professional career has been spent covering Apple Inc.'s Macintosh computers and related technologies. He was also one of the early users of the Internet as a publishing medium, with several magazines and web sites to his credit. He was the editorial director of Mac Publishing, the publishers of the U.S. edition of ''Macworld''. His column appears monthly in that magazine. In 2006 the MDJ Power 25, a poll of Mac-industry-watchers, named him the 6th most powerful/influential person in the world of Macintosh computing.〔(2005-06 MDJ Power 25 Poll )〕 (In the previous poll, Snell had been 11th.〔(2004 MDJ Power 25 Poll )〕) ==Biography== Snell grew up in the small town of Sonora, California, graduating from Sonora High School in 1988. He attended Revelle College at the University of California, San Diego, working for three years on the staff of the ''UCSD Guardian'' newspaper. In 1991, while at UCSD, Snell founded ''InterText'', an early Internet-based magazine, which was originally distributed via FTP and e-mail in plain-text and PostScript formats. (It was preceded by several groundbreaking Internet fiction magazines, including David 'Orny' Liscomb's FSFNet; Jim McCabe's ''Athene''; and Daniel K. Appelquist's science-fiction magazine ''Quanta''.) ''InterText'' published hundreds of short stories in various genres until it ceased publication in 2004. Snell graduated in 1992 with a degree in Communication. In 1994 he received a master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1994 Snell began working at the U.S. edition of MacUser magazine, beginning his career writing about the Macintosh computer. In 1996, Snell co-founded Internet humor and commentary site TeeVee.org. He lives in Mill Valley, California, with his wife and two children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jason Snell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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