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About Gareth Branwyn
- Kevin Maloof (born January 21, 1958), better known by his pseudonym, Gareth Branwyn, is a writer, editor, and media critic. He has covered technology, DIY media, and cyberculture for Wired, Esquire, the Baltimore Sun and other publications.
- He has also been an editor at Mondo 2000, and at Boing Boing when it was a print zine (he had his own column Going Gaga).
- He founded the personal tech site, Street Tech, where he was self-described "Cyborg-in-Chief." He is the former Editorial Director for MAKE Magazine where he oversaw all content.
- In April 2013, he returned to freelance writing to begin work on his lazy memoir, Borg Like Me.
- The book was crowdfunded, via Kickstarter, and self-published.
- It was finally released on September 2, 2014 on Branwyn's own Sparks of Fire Press.
- In April, 2014, Branwyn joined Kevin Kelly, Mark Frauenfelder, and Carla Sinclair as a regular contributor to Wink Books, a daily review of art, instructional, graphical, and other "remarkable books that belong on paper." Branwyn was a co-editor of The Happy Mutant Handbook and is the author of Jargon Watch: A Pocket Dictionary for the Jitterati, Jamming the Media, The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots and Mosaic Quick Tour: Accessing and Navigating the World Wide Web, one of the first books written about the Web.
- Along with Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder, he was also involved in Billy Idol's controversial 1993 recording Cyberpunk.
- In the early 1990s, Branwyn published the small-format alternative art and culture zine Going Gaga. Gareth Branwyn was married to DC-area jazz singer and Thievery Corporation vocalist Pam Bricker, who committed suicide in 2005.
- Together they had a son, Blake Maloof, who is now an adult.
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