"Jason Snell" is an American writer and editor whose professional career has been spent covering Apple Inc.'s Apple Macintosh/Macintosh computers and related technologies. He was also one of the early users of the Internet as a publishing medium, with several magazines and web sites to his credit. He was the editorial director of Mac Publishing, the publishers of the U.S. edition of Macworld. His column appears monthly in that magazine. In 2006 the MDJ Power 25, a poll of Mac-industry-watchers, named him the 6th most powerful/influential person in the world of Macintosh computing. (In the previous poll, Snell had been 11th.)

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