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 racial makeup of Burning Man attendees in 2014, about 87 percent of them identified themselves as white, 6 percent as Hispanic/Latino, 6 percent as Asian, and 1 percent as black. When interviewed by "The Guardian" about these figures, Harvey replied, "I don't think black folks like to camp as much as white folks ... We're not going to set racial quotas ... This has never been, imagined by us, as a utopian society". The terms of the Burning Man ticket require that participants wishing to use photo and video-recording equipment share a joint copyright of their images of Black Rock