Welcome to Pogue's Pages!
Here you'll find every conceivable shred of information about my columns and books, along with just enough pictures, words, and links to satisfy the next person who asks me, "Do you have a Web site?"
Catch me on CNBC
Tune in to "Power Lunch" on CNBC, every Thursday at about 1:45 pm. There you'll see me almost every week, with my usual goofy take on tech. (The same segment will also become my regular Times video later that day.)
New PBS NOVA Miniseries
I'm hosting a four-part PBS NOVA miniseries to air in November...about the latest in cutting-edge materials science. Carbon nanowires, spider silk from goats, stab-proof clothing...and that's just the beginning. You can keep up with our shoot on the NOVA blog!
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This week's New York Times column
July 29, 2010
Nuance, the company that makes Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Windows, is in a pretty sweet position: It’s essentially a monopoly. One by one, its competitors in the speech-recognition business have either left the market (Philips), gone out of business (Lernout & Hauspie) or turned over its product to Nuance (I.B.M.). Even the sole Mac speech-recognition program, MacSpeech Dictate, can no longer be considered a kind of rival; Nuance bought it this year...more
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Last week's email column
July 22, 2010
Last week in this space, I shared excerpts from an interview with David Mikkelson, half of the husband-and-wife team behind Snopes.com, the online clearinghouse for Internet rumors and urban legends
So I thought this week, I'd share with you a piece of another interview for that segment. This time, the subject is John Palfrey, Harvard Law School professor, co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and author of "Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives."... more
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Special interest
Dec. 3, 2009
Every week, I throw out some column ideas to my editors, and we work out the schedule for my Times columns for the next couple of weeks. Recently, I suggested a column called something like What I Bought This Year. People seem to be interested in what the consumer-tech columnist would buy for himself and his own family, so it seemed like a slam-dunk... more
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