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 chris taylor journalist
chris taylor -lrb- journalist -rrb-

chris taylor -lrb- born in liverpool , england -rrb- previously served as the san francisco correspondent for `` time '' magazine , and is now a senior editor at `` business 2.0 '' magazine .
he received his primary education in the small northeastern town of chester-le-street .
he attended oxford university , reading history at merton college .
taylor gained an interest in journalism after editing `` cherwell '' , the university 's student newspaper , and writing a controversial column in `` the oxford student '' .
prior to 1996 , taylor interned and freelanced at several london-based and glasgow-based newspapers and magazines including `` the times '' , `` sunday times , daily express , the sun , time out '' , and the british edition of `` gq '' .
he has been living in america since 1996 , and joined `` time '' in 1997 as a senior news writer for time daily .
in his first year , he spearheaded the magazine 's online coverage of princess diana 's sudden death and the monica lewinsky scandal .
he has covered major events in the digital world for the magazine , such as the napster case and the decline of the dotcoms .
he often writes about new products from a consumer 's perspective for time 's `` personal technology '' column , such as the headaches of installing windows xp and mac os x .
he is especially passionate about pc and video games , and wrote the first ever games reviews in time 's arts and media section , as well as visiting the sets of `` tomb raider '' and final fantasy .
in february 2003 , `` time '' hosted `` the future of life summit '' , in monterey , california .
along with ralph merkle , taylor hosted the `` nanotech and nanomedicine '' segment .
he is a 1997 graduate of the columbia university graduate school of journalism and a member of the society of professional journalists .
in the june 6 , 2005 , issue of `` time '' , he wrote `` it 's a wiki , wiki world '' , an article credited by some as an important contribution to the increasing popularity of wikipedia .
