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Larry Magid is a technology journalist and an Internet safety advocate.

He presently serves as Technology Analyst for CBS News & CNET. His technology reports can be heard several times a week on CBS News and CBS affiliates throughout the U.S. and he has a daily tech segment for KCBS radio in San Francisco. He’s made several appearances on CBS News network TV programs, CNET webcasts and local TV news stations and his columns and podcasts can be found on CBSNews.com and News.CNET.com. He is also a weekly columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and the Palo Alto Daily News and an occasional contributor to the New York Times.

One of Larry’s newest books is MySpace Unraveled: A parents guide to teen social networkng, coauthored with Anne Collier. He also wrote The Little PC Book, a critically acclaimed best seller. Other books include The Little Quicken Book, Cruising Online: Larry Magid’s Guide to the New Digital Highways, The Fully Powered PC and Electronic Link: Using the IBM PC to Communicate.

Magid is also co-director of ConnectSafely.org and host of three popular websites: PCAnswer.com, SafeKids.com and SafeTeens.com.

Prior to ConnectSafely.org, Magid authored several Internet safety guides including, Child Safety on the Information Highway and Teen Safety on the Information Highway for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

He’s written for Fortune, Family Circle, PC World, Information Week, ComputerWorld and numerous other publications. He’s been a guest several national and local broadcast shows throughout the country including The Larry King Show, CBS’ Early Show, NBC’s Today Show, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, TechTV and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

He’s a board member of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and a member of the advisory boards of both GetNetWise.org and Family Online Safety Institute and served on the Internet Safety Technical Task Force.

Magid has a doctorate of education from the University of Massachusetts and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He resides in Palo Alto, California where he helped raise two digital natives.