David Pogue

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David Pogue

Born	March 9, 1963 (1963-03-09) (age 45) Shaker Heights, Ohio, U.S.A.
Spouse	Jennifer Pogue, MD
Children	son Kelly, daughter Tia, and son Jeffrey
Website http://www.davidpogue.com/

David Pogue (born March 9, 1963) is a technology writer, journalist and commentator. He is a personal technology columnist for the New York Times, an Emmy-winning tech correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, and tech guest reporter for NPR's Morning Edition. He has written or co-written seven books in the "...for Dummies" series (including Macintosh computers, magic, opera, and classical music); in 1999, he launched his own series of computer how-to books, called the Missing Manual series, which includes over 60 titles covering a variety of personal computer operating systems and applications.

Pogue graduated from Yale University in 1985, with Distinction in Music.^[1]

He spent ten years working in New York as a Broadway musical conductor, arranger, and keyboard player.^{[citation needed]}

On August 29, 2007 he received an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Music) from Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.

He is married with three children.

1 New York Times
2 Macworld and IDG
3 Controversy
4 TED
5 Bibliography
- 5.1 Non-fiction
- 5.2 Fiction
6 Television
7 References
8 External links

New York Times

Each week, he produces a short online video for the New York Times website, nytimes.com. That video is also broadcast on Tech Calls, a CNBC production, but with a different introduction and different music(CNBC requires the use of their own music library, purchased for broadcasting). David Pogue also writes a review column for the paper, and writes a tech-related opinion column that is sent to readers by e-mail. He also maintains a blog at nytimes.com called Pogue's Posts.

Macworld and IDG

Prior to writing for The New York Times, David Pogue wrote for Macworld Magazine from 1988-2000. Pogue's back-page column in Macworld was called Desktop Critic. Pogue got his start writing books when Macworld-owner IDG asked him to write Macs for Dummies to follow on the success of the first ...for Dummies book, DOS for Dummies.^[1] Pogue followed that with Macworld Macintosh Secrets in 1993, newer editions of which have gone under slightly different titles such as Macworld Mac & Power Mac Secrets (1994) and Macworld Mac Secrets (2001).

Controversy

Pogue was the subject of a conflict-of-interest controversy regarding a hard drive recovery service review he conducted for National Public Radio's Morning Edition program on September 12, 2005.^[2] Prior to conducting the review, Pogue received $2,700 worth of complimentary service from the company, but made no mention of this on the program. NPR's Vice President of News Bill Marimow has stated that this was clearly improper and that NPR should have either not aired the review or paid for the services themselves.^[2]

TED

Pogue has attended TED, a conference in Monterey, CA a number of times and has also given talks twice, one 20 minute talk about simplicity and another, a medley or as Pogue joked "a tedley". ^[3]

Bibliography

Non-fiction

Classical Music for Dummies
Crossing Platforms: A Macintosh/Windows Phrasebook (with Adam C. Engst)
CSS: the Missing Manual
The Flat-Screen iMac for Dummies
GarageBand 2: the Missing Manual
GarageBand: the Missing Manual
The Great Macintosh Easter Egg Hunt
The iBook for Dummies
iLife '04: The Missing Manual
iLife '05: The Missing Manual
The iMac for Dummies
iMovie: The Missing Manual
iMovie 2: The Missing Manual
iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
iMovie 4 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual
iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
iPhoto: The Missing Manual
iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual
iPhoto 4: The Missing Manual
iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual
iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual
Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual
Mac OS X: The Missing Manual
Mac OS X Hints (with Rob Griffiths)
Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell
Macs for Dummies
Macs for Teachers
Macworld Mac & Power Mac Secrets (with Joseph Schorr)
Magic for Dummies
The Microsloth Joke Book: A Satire (editor)
More Macs for Dummies
Opera for Dummies (with Scott Speck)
PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide
Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual (with Adam Goldstein)
Tales from the Tech Line: Hilarious Strange-But-True Stories from the Computer Industry's Technical-Support Hotlines (editor)
The Weird Wide Web (with Erfert Fenton)
Windows Me: The Missing Manual
Windows Vista: The Missing Manual
Windows Vista for Starters: The Missing Manual
Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual
Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual