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Quick details

• Name: Sebastian Anthony
• Current location: London, England
• Job: Director of Content at Red Ventures, Editor in Chief at Bankrate UK
• Former roles: Editor of Ars Technica UK (Conde Nast); Editor of ExtremeTech (Ziff Davis); Editor of Download Squad (AOL); owner of SA Holdings; web designer, programmer, sysadmin, etc.
• Email: sebastian@redventures.com
• Areas of expertise: Emerging technology, fintech, open banking, consumer technology, science, space, security, hacking, telecommunications
• TV & radio appearances: I am more than happy to talk about technology and some areas of science on radio or TV. I am most authoritative/knowledgeable when it comes to emerging tech, fintech (blockchain, crypto currency, open banking), consumer tech, science, or a news story that I've covered recently. I have been on BBC, Al Jazeera, and NPR, among other networks and stations. Email me if you want to set something up. I live close to central London, so can visit your studio if needed.

Primary resources

• Red Ventures -- I am a director at Red Ventures, managing all content in the UK and Europe. I'm also the editor in chief of Bankrate UK, managing the launch of a fully localised Bankrate this year.
• Ars Technica -- I was the editor of Ars Technica UK. Ars is the authoritative source for techology, science, and digital policy reporting in the UK. Things went pretty well during my tenure: we went from zero users to almost two million in a couple of years. But alas, we were closed down in September 2017.
• ExtremeTech -- Between 2011 and the end of 2014, I led the relaunch of the best place on the internet to find deep, and often quite opinionated analysis of emerging technology. By the end of 2014, I had grown the site to around 4 million monthly unique visitors. If you're looking for stuff written by me, hit up my ExtremeTech author page.
• Flickr -- As well as being an editor/writer, I'm also (technically) a professional photographer. I mostly only take photos when I travel, though -- and then upload them to Flickr! My best photos are available in the Portfolio set on Flickr.
• Twitter -- Are inane, egocentric babblings your kind of thing? Despite being deeply embroiled in the world of technology, I also tweet about food, music, TV, and the (surprising) love of my life: musical theatre.
• My blog -- My every-day blog crammed full of pretty photos, funny stories and tales from my around-the-world travels. The purpose of this blog was to chronicle my rise to fame as both a fine-art landscape photographer and writer. This blog has not been updated regularly in a long time, but there's still a lot of fun stuff on there.

Secondary resources

• Instagram -- While Flickr tends to mostly be photos of pretty landscapes and photos taken with my DSLR, Instagram is mostly smartphone photos of my bearded visage, food, and stuff like that.
• LinkedIn -- Just because I'm not a cubicle-camping office-dweller (I work from an awesome home office) doesn't mean I don't NETWORK!
• Facebook -- I sometimes share stuff on Facebook instead of Twitter. If you really want to, you can follow me on Facebook -- but Twitter and Instagram is probably enough. I also have a mostly defunct "fan" page on Facebook, which in theory will one day make you eligible for money-off vouchers that'll make my photo prints even more economically attractive. But right now it does nothing.
• Google+ -- I'm not entirely sure if I'll use Google+ and its Circles feature, but here's a link to my profile just in case.
• Buy my photos! -- My photos, which hang in galleries and fancy homes around the world, are very reasonably priced and look fantastic when blown up large. As I sell more and exhibit in galleries they go up in price, so time is of the essence!
• Download Squad (RIP) -- This is where I used to write, way back in 2009-2011... and then AOL unceremoniously shut us down. My Download Squad author page is still available as of August 2014, if you're looking for software-oriented tech news (but do apologise my not-so-great writing back then...)

Tertiary resources

If the previous two sections didn't sate your curiousity, or if they piqued it, email me. Perhaps you can glean something from my Spotify profile, or Goodreads (though I haven't read a book in a long time, sadly). The "sebastian" tag on my blog has some interesting background on me, too.

As I mentioned above, if you need me for a TV or radio segment, I'm more than happy to talk about technology (consumer and enterprise), science (space, emerging sci/tech), and a few other odd areas (robots, high-tech weapons, etc.) Just email me if you want to set something up.

Generally, if you see a Mr Seb anywhere on the internet, it's me (unless it's a Frenchman -- there are a lot of French Mr Sebs, for some reason).