For the inventor of the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, see August Dvorak.
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John C. Dvorak

John C. Dvorak is a well known American columnist writing on technology, specifically that relating to computing. His writing extends back to the 1980s, when he was a mainstay of a variety of magazines. More recently he has become known for his somewhat more speculative and provocative articles. He writes for various publications, including PC Magazine (two columns since 1986), Marketwatch, BUG Magazine (Croatia), and Info Exame (Brazil). Dvorak has been a columnist for Boardwatch Magazine, Forbes, Forbes Online, MacUser, MicroTimes, PC/Computing, Barron's Magazine, Smart Business, and Vancouver Sun. (The MicroTimes column ran under the banner Dvorak's Last Column.) He is the creator and lead judge of the Dvorak Awards (1992 - 1997).

He has written or co-authored over a dozen books, including Hypergrowth: The Rise and Fall of the Osborne Computer Corporation with Adam Osborne. His current book is Online! The Book (Prentice Hall PTR, October, 2003) with co-authors Wendy Taylor and Chris Pirillo along with a number of books discussing his eating disorder.

The Computer Press Association presented Dvorak with the Best Columnist and Best Column awards, and he was also the 2004 and 2005 award winner of the American Business Editors Association's national gold award for best online column of 2003 and 2004 respectively.

He was on the original start-up team for C-Net Networks, appearing on the television show C-Net Central. He also hosted a radio show called Real Computing on NPR, as well as a television show on TechTV called Silicon Spin. He now appears on Marketwatch TV and is a regular panelist on This Week in Tech, a podcast featuring many other former hosts from TechTV including Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton. In addition, he maintains a blog entitled Dvorak Uncensored which contains commentary on news articles, industry trends, and links to otherwise notable web pages.

Dvorak has been a longtime critic of Apple Computer, even during his stint as a columnist for MacUser magazine. In 2005 he suggested that recent good press about Apple was due to media bias: "With 90 percent of the mainstream writers being Mac users, what would you expect?" he wrote.

In a 2005 This Week in Tech podcast he claimed that, thanks to his hosting provider, he "gets no spam". This became a short-lived catchphrase and half-hearted chant among the audience. No mention was made of his false positive rate (how much legitimate mail gets inappropriately deleted).

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