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Phil has been a leading technology expert for two decades. He was a founding member of the PC Labs at PC Magazine (now ZD Labs) and Technology Editor at Computer Reseller News, the computer industry’s leading trade-only publication. Phil was a principal author of the Microsoft Computer Dictionary and wrote the landmark 1989 PC Magazine cover article about the Macintosh interface. He wrote the Mac and Tomorrow's Technology columns at CRN and has edited or written hundreds of tech help articles, comparative reviews and columns. Phil was a Contributing Editor at Computer Shopper, and has written for PC Magazine, InternetWeek, PC Computing, PC Sources, and Computer Retail Week. Before his editorial work, he was a programmer, IT Manager and QA Manager.
For the first half of the 90s, Phil owned a consulting firm in Maine called Mindful Technology providing general technical consulting with a focus on ergonomics, radiation concerns and edutainment software. He returned to NY and was Director of Product Design at digital radio company Clickradio, one of the longer-lasting dot-com ventures. Click used a client-server model with a local cache to deliver high-quality digital radio to computer users. It was preinstalled on Gateway computers and the company was growing rapidly when the bottom of the market fell out. Phil also picked up his DJing skills that had laid dorment since his teens and programmed Click’s downtempo station, an eclectic format that featured non-dance electronic music, primarily trip hop with some acid jazz, exotica, singer/songwriter and alternative hip-hop.
Phil writes on topics other than technology though to date he has rarely sought publication for this work. One notable exception was his column The Radical Middle in which he attempted to stake out and defend the "neither Left nor Right" bioregionalist roots of the American Green movement. Phil co-founded the Long Island Green Party, was a delegate at three national Green conventions and helped develop its original platform. He was national Secretary for the Green Party Organizing Committee for the life of that group until it and the GCoC merged into The Greens USA — Phil was elected to the board of its 501(c)3. But he left the Greens in 1991 over strong differences of opinion about strategy and direction.
Phil joined the Brown for President campaign, helping lead the state-wide effort in Maine — the first of two states Brown won. In the process, he got involved in Democratic Party activities, first as a delegate leader at the state convention, then as Maine’s Platform Chair, a delegate to the '92 national convention, and a member of the national Rules Committee. In that year, he also worked on the successful first campaign (for State Senate) that launched the political career of Chellie Pingree, who went on to be majority leader of the Maine Senate and is now president of Common Cause. Phil has also participated in local government, sitting on the Recycling Board in Huntington, Long Island, and the Zoning Board in Morrill, Maine. After having vowed never to work on another campaign, Phil relented, writing and editing some of the Dean campaign literature. More recently, he did editorial work for the Department of Peace effort.
In 2002, Phil started exploring digital video. He shot and edited a 15-minute profile of spoken word artist Celena Glenn and created the video component of King Missile's multimedia presentation "The Fish is Not Meant to Symbolize", part of HERE's curated series The American Living Room 2002. Phil is editor of Electra Elf 3 by Nick Zedd.
Since 2004, Phil has coordinated the web efforts for Housing Works, a non-profit political advocacy organization, overseeing the housingworks.org site and developing the Campaign to End AIDS web resources for both organizers and contributors, as well as several newsletters, including the influential weekly AIDS Issues Update.
From his home base in NYC, Phil develops and maintains websites, writes and edits words, and shoots and edits video. Click here to download a PDF of my less interesting but more linear resume.
E-mail: fromsite@pfrose.com