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 John C. Dvorak, July 2007 |
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| Born | April 5, 1952 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Residence | San Francisco Bay area Washington |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | columnist, host, vice-president |
| Website Channel Dvorak Dvorak Uncensored Blog Cranky Geeks Tech5 No Agenda TWiT (This Week in Tech) |
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John C. Dvorak (born April 5, 1952 in Los Angeles, California) is an American columnist and broadcaster in the areas of technology and computing.[1] His writing extends back to the 1980s, when he was a mainstay of a variety of magazines. Dvorak is also the Vice-President of Mevio (formerly PodShow) and well known for his work for Tech TV.
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Personal life and background
John C. Dvorak was born in 1952 in Los Angeles, California.[2] He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in history[3], and has homes in the San Francisco Bay area and in Washington State. He is married to Mimi Smith-Dvorak.
Dvorak is a noted collector of Bordeaux wines and has been a tasting judge at various international events. He started his career as a wine writer.[4] Dvorak has also appeared as a prima donna version of himself with Steve Gibson in the Up in Smoke Video Podcast, a mini sitcom about a cigar shop.[5]
Writing career
Periodicals
Dvorak has written for various publications, including PC Magazine (two separate columns since 1986), MarketWatch, BUG Magazine (Croatia), and Info Exame (Brazil). Dvorak has been a columnist for Boardwatch, Forbes, Forbes.com, MacUser, MicroTimes, PC/Computing, Barron's Magazine, Smart Business, and Vancouver Sun. (The MicroTimes column ran under the banner Dvorak's Last Column.) He has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, MacMania Networks, International Herald Tribune, San Francisco Examiner and The Philadelphia Inquirer among numerous other publications.
His PC Magazine column is licensed worldwide.
Dvorak created a few tech running jokes; in episode 18 of TWiT (This Week in Tech) he claimed that, thanks to his hosting provider, he "gets no spam".[6]
Books
Dvorak has written or co-authored over a dozen books, including Hypergrowth: The Rise and Fall of the Osborne Computer Corporation with Adam Osborne and Dvorak's Guide to Desktop Telecommunications in 1990. His latest book is Online! The Book (Prentice Hall PTR, October, 2003) with co-authors Wendy Taylor and Chris Pirillo.
Awards
The Computer Press Association presented Dvorak with the Best Columnist and Best Column awards, and he was also the 2004 and 2005 award winner of the American Business Editors Association's national gold award for best online columns of 2003 and 2004, respectively.
He was the creator and lead judge of the Dvorak Awards (1992 – 1997).
In 2001, he was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology.
Quotes
In the San Francisco Examiner, on the 19 Feb. 1984 issue, John wrote : The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I dont want one of these new fangled devices. [7]
In the Wall St. Journal Market Watch on March 28, 2007, John wrote: Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone.. what Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it's smart it will call the iPhone a "reference design" and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else's marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures...Otherwise I'd advise you to cover your eyes. You're not going to like what you'll see. [8]
TV and Online Media
Dvorak was on the start-up team for CNET Networks, appearing on the television show CNET Central. He also hosted a radio show called Real Computing on NPR, as well as a television show on TechTV (formerly ZDTV) called Silicon Spin.
He now appears on Marketwatch TV and is a regular panelist on This Week in Tech, a podcast audio program hosted by Leo Laporte and featuring other former TechTV personalities such as Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, and Robert Heron. As of December 2005, that "TWiTcast" regularly ranks among the top 5 at Apple's iTunes Music Store. Dvorak also participated in the only Triangulation podcast, a similar co-hosted technology discussion program. In March 2006, Dvorak started a new show called CrankyGeeks in which he leads a rotating panel of "cranky" tech gurus in discussions of technology news stories of the week.
Mevio hired Dvorak as Vice President & Managing Editor for a new Mevio TECH channel in 2007. He manages content from existing Mevio tech programming as well as hosts the show, "Tech5", where Dvorak discusses the day's tech news in approximately 5 minutes.[9] Dvorak also co-hosts a podcast with Mevio co-founder Adam Curry called No Agenda. The show is a free flowing conversation about the week's news, happenings in the lives of the hosts and their families, and restaurant reviews from the dinners John and Adam have together when they are in the same city (usually San Francisco). Adam usually has more outlandish opinions of the week's news or world events while Dvorak plays the straight man in the dialogue.
References
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEEDD143BF936A15757C0A965958260
- ^ "John C. Dvorak" (HTML). Smart Computing Encyclopedia. Smart Computing. http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=&searchtype=1&DicID=17862&RefType=Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2006-04-25.
- ^ http://www.twit.tv/190
- ^ Wired | Issue 2.02 | Street Myths: John C. Dvorak (February, 1994)
- ^ CigarVideoPodcast.org Up in Smoke Video Podcast
- ^ Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, Steve Gibson, Robert Heron, David Prager, Roger Chang, Bob Young, Mike Lazazzera. This Week in Tech Episode 18 [TV-Series]. California: This Week in Tech.
- ^ in the San Francisco Examiner, John C. Dvorak, 19 Feb. 1984, cited in http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/01/12/jan-1984-how-critics-reviewed-the-mac/
- ^ Market Watch, John C. Dvorak, 28 Mar. 2007 cited in http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-should-pull-the-plug-on-the-iphone
- ^ "PodShow, Inc. Taps John C. Dvorak to Launch PodShow TECH". http://pressroom.mevio.com/2007/05/23/podshow-inc-taps-john-c-dvorak-to-launch-podshow-tech/. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
External links
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- John C. Dvorak's blog with commentary on news articles, observations on industry trends, and links to web pages of interest.
- John C. Dvorak's Channel Site aggregating all things Dvorak created by his son.
- Channel Dvorak Twitter [Twitter] version of above site.
- John C. Dvorak's column - PC Magazine
- John C. Dvorak's Inside Track - PC Magazine
- John C. Dvorak's Second Opinion - MarketWatch
- Official short bio
- John C. Dvorak's Universal Home Page and Personal Portal
- John C. Dvorak's wine tasting website Zinfandel On the Web (abandoned)
- CrankyGeeks official site
- John Dvorak Interviewed on CS Techcast Episode 20
- Dvorak interview on Tech Talk for Families
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