John Dvorak
John Charles Dvorak is a Broadcaster and Columnist. His main areas of work and writing are technology and computing. Mr. Dvorak is the Vice President of Mevio. He is well known for his work with Tech TV.
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Education
He graduated from the University of California with major in History and minor in Chemistry.
Personal Life
Mr. Dvorak is married to Mimi Smith-Dvorak and has homes in San Francisco Bay area and Port Angeles in Washington. He is a collector of Bordeaux Wines and has also served as a tasting judge at many international events.
Career
He started his career as a wine writer. He has written for several publications whic include InfoWorld, PC Magazine, MarketWatch, BUG Magazine and Info Exame. Aside from this, he has worked as a columnist for magazines like Forbes, MacUser, MicroTimes, PC/Computing, Barron's Magazine, Smart Business and Vancouver Sun. He has also worked wit newspapers like New York Times, Los Angeles Tmes, MacMania Networks, International Heral Tribune, San Francisco Examiner and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Publications
He is the author and co-author of several books including
- Hypergrowth: The Rise and Fall of the Osborne Computer Corporation
- Dvorak's Guide to Desktop Telecommunications in 1990
- Dvorak's Guide to PC Telecommunications in 1992
- Dvorak's Guide to OS/2 in 1993
- Dvorak Predicts in 1994.
- Prentice Hall PTR, October, 2003) with co-authors Wendy Taylor and Chris Pirillo
Awards and Recognition
- The Computer Press Association has presented Dvorak with the Best Columnist and Best Column awards.
- In 2004 and then in 2005, he was the award winner of the American Business Editors Association's National Gold Award for the best online columns.
- 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.
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. Dvorak is currently a voice on the podcast "No Agenda".
He now appears on Marketwatch TV and is a regular panelist on This Week in Tech, a podcast audio and now video 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 led a rotating panel of "cranky" tech gurus in discussions of technology news stories of the week. The last episode (No. 237) aired on September 22, 2010.
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, although the show has been out of production since late 2010.[6] 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 is intended to play the straight man in the dialogue.
Since early 2011, John has been one of the featured "CoolHotNot Tech Xperts," along with Chris Pirillo, Jim Louderback, Dave Graveline, Robin Raskin, Dave Whittle, Steve Bass, and Cheryl Currid. At CoolHotNot's web site, Dvorak shares his "Loved List" of favorite consumer electronics, his "Wanted List" of tech products he'd like to try, and his "Letdown List" of tech products he found disappointing.[7]
John now hosts the show X3 which like the defunct Tech 5 is a short tech focused cast, but now in a video format together with two additional "pundits".