Wendy M. Grossman
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Journalism
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, blog
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ger, and folksinger. She graduated from Cornell University
Cornell University
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in 1975 and Riverdale Country School
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in 1971. She was a full-time folksinger from 1975–83 and her folk album Roseville Fair was released in 1980, and MP3s from it are available on her Web site.
In 1987, she founded the magazine The Skeptic
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in the United Kingdom
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and edited it for two years, resuming the editorship in 1999-2001. As founder and editor, she has appeared on numerous UK TV and radio programmes.
Her credits since 1990 include work for Scientific American
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, The Guardian
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, and the Daily Telegraph, as well as New Scientist
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, Wired and Wired News
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, and The Inquirer
The Inquirer
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for which she wrote a regular weekly net.wars column. That column continues in NewsWireless and on her own site every Friday. She was a columnist for Internet Today from July 1996 until it closed in April 1997, and together with Dominic Young ran the Fleet Street Forum on CompuServe UK in the mid 1990s. She also sometimes writes about tennis.
She edited an anthology of interviews with leading computer industry figures taken from the pages of the British computer magazine Personal Computer World
Personal Computer World
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. Entitled Remembering the Future, it was published in January 1997 by Springer Verlag. Her 1998 book net.wars was one of the first to have its full text published on the Web. She was a member of the external advisory board of the Intellectual Property and Law Centre
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at Edinburgh University (the board was disbanded after the centre became established). She was president of the Cornell Folk Song Club, the oldest university-affiliated, student-run folk song club in the US, from 1973 to 1975.
She sits on the executive committee of the Association of British Science Writers
Association of British Science Writers
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and the Advisory Councils of the Open Rights Group
Open Rights Group
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and Privacy International
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. In February 2011 Grossman was elected as a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
External links
- Wendy Grossman on LiveJournalLiveJournalLiveJournal is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free and open source server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community....
- NewsWirelessNet, where her column net.wars appears every Friday
- Wendy Grossman's personal website
- The Skeptic
- full text of net.wars, Wendy Grossman, 1997–99 NYU Press, ISBN 0-8147-3103-1