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John G. McDaid
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John
G.
McDaid |
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Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
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journalist, author |
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American |
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Biography
John is an award-winning science fiction writer, a folk/filk singer-songwriter, and a freelance journalist who often writes about Portsmouth, Rhode Island news and politics at his hyperlocal blog hard deadlines. His work has also appeared in RI Future and the late, lamented Providence Phoenix.
In June, 2015, the scholarly online book "Pathfinders" was released by Dene Grigar and Stuart Moulthrop, featuring McDaid's pioneering hypertext novel "Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse" as one of the four works of early digital literature preserved and annotated under a 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to the Electronic Literature Organization. Read coverage in EastBay papers, RI Future, Portsmouth Patch, or download a press kit.
In January, 2014, coverage on hard deadlines of a Portsmouth Middle School memo to parents warning of the dangers (including nasal maggots) of snorting Smarties went viral, with pickup in media locally (Portsmouth Patch, EastBayRI), in national outlets (Washington Post, CBS News), internationally (England, Australia), and in major culture sites (BoingBoing, Gawker), culminating in a citation in Snopes.com.
In June, 2013, McDaid became a Google Glass Explorer and started testing an early version of these next-generation "smart glasses." Coverage at WPRI12 Providence, and Portsmouth Patch.
Works in the WWEnd Database
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