My name is Chris Castiglione and I’m a developer, musician, and new media writer living in New York City.

I recently graduated from the New Media M.A. at the University of Amsterdam. I like to write  and researching about the music industr(ies), new media, open-source content, and Internet trends. I’ve been involved in a variety of music projects including my latest, Dance At The Postoffice, and the ‘free music’ blog musicNeutral. I’m also an advocate of net neutrality, creative exploration and storytelling using new technologies.

I graduated from James Madison University where I studied Music and Media Arts and Design. During college I interned/worked in NYC at Stratosphere Sound. Then after university I spent some time teaching ESL while living in Osaka, Japan. Until last year I was at the development firm Omnistudio in Washington, DC where I developed websites for non-profit organizations in the district and around the world.

My Gmail address is “castig [at]“.

Inspirational and Awesome Books

My Favorite TED Talks

My Firefox Extensions

• Better Gmail 2 – enhances Gmail
• del.icio.us – social bookmarking
• DownThemAll! – mass downloader
• Fast Video Download – save videos from YouTube and other video sharing sites
• Firebug – time life saving web dev tool
  
• Rikaichan - Essential Japanese-English/German/French/Russian dictionary (Here’s the Wikipedia Entry I wrote up for Rikaichan)
• ubiquity - Phenomenal Mozilla “mashup” tool that anyone can use
• web developer toolbar -crucial tool for web developers

Tools & Other Apps

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evernote – “never forget anything”.
tadalist - my personal to-do list