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
The Burning Plain The film will have a budget of under $20 million. "The Burning Plain" began filming in New Mexico on November 5, 2007. Other filming took place in Portland and Depoe Bay in Oregon. "The Burning Plain" was screened at TIFF, the Toronto International Film Festival, in September 2008, before being screened at the Savannah Film Festival, which was held from October 25 to November 1, 2008. It was an entrant of the international competition of the 65th Venice International Film Festival. "The Burning Plain" was released in theaters on September 18, 2009. "The Burning Plain" has received generally poor reviews