Julian Dibbell has, in the course of over a decade of independent journalism and authorship, established himself as one of digital culture’s most thoughtful and accessible observers. He is the author of two books about online worlds — Play Money: Or How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot (Basic, 2006) and My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World (Henry Holt, 1999), and his essays and articles on hackers, computer viruses, online communities, encryption technologies, music pirates, and other volatile digital-age phenomena have appeared in Wired, The Village Voice, The New York Times, Time, Harper’s, and numerous other publications. He was a 2002–2003 Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society and co-founded the collaborative weblog Terra Nova, which he continues to co-moderate. He lives in South Bend, Indiana.