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ABOUT Matthew Yeomans has spent 17 years as a writer, editor, lecturer and consultant. He is the founder and director of Custom Communication, a company that provides social media consulting, reporting and content creation services for business. He also writes the Ag, a daily column for Time.com Matthew is the author of Oil: Anatomy of an Industry, a book that explores the many ways in which oil influences our lives. As a feature writer, he has traveled to Ethiopia to write about the Coptic religion for Wired ; he has gone into the Amazon in search of indian shamans for Details ; he has spent a summer riding the graveyard shift with a volunteer ambulance crew in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn for the Village Voice , and he has followed the highs and lows of his beloved Welsh rugby team for Doubletake . He was also a columnist for The Industry Standard where he documented globalization and technology. A senior editor at both The Industry Standard and the Village Voice, Matthew ran coverage of 1996 and 2000 presidential elections and commissioned international business stories. Matthew also ran the Standard’s online news operation and pioneered a daily news website for the Village Voice dedicated to covering the 1996 US presidential election. Matthew teaches online and mobile journalism at Cardiff University. Previously he taught magazine writing at New York University where he was also a visiting scholar. Matthew has also worked in independent film as a producer for Death in El Valle a documentary about a Spanish Civil War political murder that aired on Channel Four, PBS television and at the Margaret Mead film festival. He lives in Cardiff, Wales with his wife, Jowa, his son, Dylan, and daughter Zelda.  copyright mateoland 2004. All rights reserved email: matthew (at) mateoland (dot) com |