Michael S. Malone

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael Shawn Malone (born 1954) is an American author, columnist, editor, investor, business-man, television producer, and has been the host of several shows on PBS. Currently (2009), Malone is a columnist for ABC News, an op-ed contributor for the Wall Street Journal, a contributing editor to Wired, and the editor-in-chief of Edgelings.com, a website focused on business and technology news in Silicon Valley. Malone is the author of numerous books and has written the "Silicon Insider" column for ABC since 2000. In his professional writing he usually uses the name Michael S. Malone, to distinguish his work from that of another U.S. author named Michael Malone, primarily a writer of fiction. He is usually known as "Mike" Malone in his personal life and has stated that, growing up, he was not particularly fond of his middle name.