David Pogue signs contract with CNBC, is more extra-specialer than you
New York Times gadget reviewer David Pogue has signed a new contract with CNBC and is very proud of this. Here's our 100-word version of his video introduction:
The name is "Fark," have you farking heard of it?
Gadget reviewer David Pogue of the New York Times has run so short of ideas that he's recycling a decade-old idea: Criticizing the absurdity of today's Web 2.0 domain names. But in rehashing what everyone else already knew, Pogue reveals just how far behind he is. "These are all actual Web sites that have hit the…
OS X Leopard reviews — the 100-word versions
Got 30 seconds? Read my summaries of the early reviews of Apple's new operating system in Thursday's papers. Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg, New York Times reviewer David Pogue, and USA Today's Ed Baig agree: Time Machine backups, yay. See-through menus, boo.
Pogue agrees — advance gadget reviews are bogus
New York Times gadget reviewer David Pogue got into an email back-and-forth with Valleywag after he was tricked into writing an article by advance misinformation on a pre-launch product. In theory, it's good for reviewers to test and write up products before release day, so consumers can make informed choices. In…
David Pogue writes whatever you tell him to
David Pogue of the New York Times wrote a humiliating column today correcting a huge pricing error in his last piece. He wrote about cellphone startup Cubic Telecom, which carries international phone calls over the Internet to give really cheap rates. Pogue listed off a bunch of rates to places like Greece or Iraq…
David Pogue of the New York Times questions the need for the popular business-oriented social network: "What I don't understand is: If somebody knows me well enough to e-mail me with an invitation to join, why doesn't he just e-mail me directly with whatever his problem or offer is?" [Pogue's Posts]
Outraged that his New York Times salary funds four separate family vacations a year, David Pogue's readers engage in class warfare in the comments of an otherwise innocuous, if anachronistic, blog post about hotel check-in kiosks. [Pogue's Post]
Dontcha wish you'd come up with this video?
Hate to say it, but Jason Calacanis had it right: NYT gadget reviewer David Pogue's "iPhone: The Musical" was a trite, derivative, and boring piece of Apple propaganda. But a group of San Francisco webheads have come up with a pitch-perfect take on the iPhone phenomenon. Behold the glory that is "Dontcha Wish Your…
Are gadget critics above criticism?
New York Times technology columnist David Pogue is a not-very-critical critic — except, possibly, when it comes to his own biography. Pogue, or someone claiming to be him, is in fact editing his own Wikipedia entry. And every sign points to it, in fact, being Pogue: The poster's IP address, 67.86.88.246, has been…
Mossberg in our mailbag: "I will likely do a more comparative piece" on Vista vs OS X
PAUL BOUTIN — Wall Street Journal uber-reviewer Walt Mossberg replied at length to Valleywag's email inquiry yesterday, in which I asked why he mentions Apple's Mac OS X so many times in his review of Microsoft Windows Vista. He obviously thinks the Mac still whups Vista, yet doesn't tell his loyal readers to…
David Pogue calls Vista "a truck"
PAUL BOUTIN — Vista or OS X? The star reviewers at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both point out Microsoft's new operating system (a) requires a new, beefed-up PC to use its best features, and (b) seems like an inferior copy of Apple's Mac OS X. David Pogue and Walt Mossberg are both known Mac fans.…
David Pogue puts on an antic disposition
Look, some readers really admire David Pogue's innocently funny approach to reviewing gadgets and software for the New York Times. I myself enjoy his whimsical video reviews. But the man has gone mad.
David Pogue ruins it for tech writers
David Pogue, the friendly Bob Saget of tech journalism, got flak for last week's New York Times column, in which he explained why Macs will never dominate the business scene. One of his reasons was that IT pros would put themselves out of business by filling their companies with Macs. He got plenty of shit for that…
David Pogue amuses himself
Somewhere deep in the New York Times stylebook is the rule that all shopping columnists must be "quirky." David Pogue, master gadget and software reviewer, is the William Safire of the genre, and he's even better on video. In his latest clip, Pogue pulls off the best cheesy joke telling in history — just like your…
David Pogue talks and sings at TED 2006
TED, the futuristic conference that calls itself "a preview of Heaven" just released this year's keynote speeches online. Most of the clips from the February TED conference aren't geeky or funny enough. But New York Times personal tech columnist David Pogue is both. Forgive a few well-worn jokes and listen to his…
David Pogue Doesn't Deserve Santa's Generosity
For Memorial Day weekend, the Times' resident geek David Pogue attempted to install a portable GPS unit before he and his family took a road trip. The GPS device was a Christmas gift, given to him by a relative. Unfortunately, Pogue had some problems — tiny memory, no loaded map data, a "dog-slow" data transfer,…
David Pogue Finds Solutions to Problems We Didn't Know We Had
We like technology, really we do. (Yay, technology!) But we confess that David Pogue's latest wet dream, recounted in today's paper, leaves us a bit flummoxed. It seems there's a new gizmo that, when hooked up in your house, allows you to watch your home TV anywhere you can get a WiFi signal to your laptop — or even…
To Some Degree, Though, All Those 'Times' Guys Are Tools
It just keeps getting harder for people working at the Times: Now the editors are even posting staffers' performance reviews on the web.
