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I wonder if he'll work remotely. ;) I never understood the appeal of this guy, nor his qualifications. Both he and Mossberg were woefully non-technical for tec

• ohjeez 13y ago
  Writing about technology for newspapers is a tough gig. You aren't just writing for us geeks. You have to write for grandpa who refuses to get a cell phone, for the boss who doesn't see a reason to upgrade a fax machine, for the mere mortals who _need_ technology "dumbed down." Not because they are dumb but because don't have a foundation of knowledge to build on -- or interest in gaining that foundation. Though I did stop reading anything from Kim Komando once she explained how a floppy drive worked, and she got all the facts wrong. (That was long enough ago that someone might explain how a floppy disk worked.)
• fintler 13y ago
  Personally, I liked his work when he was writing Desktop Critic articles in MacWorld -- very enjoyable, but not really technical. For example, when I received the April fools issue, I would always flip directly to the back to read his article first. However, since then (circa 2000 or so?), I haven't really followed him at all.
• troymc 13y ago
  His appeal is precisely that he's non-technical. There's a large audience for that. If Pogue was the only tech reporter, there'd be a problem, but he's not. The web is full of extremely technical blogs and forums.
• mbubb 13y ago
  But Mossberg at least gets the relevance of new tech... Pogue always seems to get on bandwagons when they are extremely mature.