Daniel Terdiman game development advisor for US National Public Radio (NPR) for the Talk of the Nation broadcast and for the BBC in the UK. He edited and contributed as an author to "" (), a 2002 book about the annual Burning Man arts festival, held in the Nevada Desert. He wrote "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life: Making Money in the Metaverse" (). He was the panel moderator at the Game Developers' Conference 2007, on the topic of Burning Man. He holds a Masters of Science degree in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He currently works as
Burning Man (in 1993 and '94) with Judy West. The annual, several weeks-long event, was held over summer Solstice at various fertile hot springs surrounding the desert. Participants built art and participated in self-directed performances. Some key organizers of Burning Man were also part of Desert Siteworks (John Law, Michael Mikel) and William Binzen was a friend of Larry Harvey. Hence, the two events saw lots of cross-pollination of ideas and participants. The Desert Siteworks project ran for three years (1992–1994). 1996 was the first year a formal partnership was created to own the name "Burning Man" and was also the last