Pogue, David

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Name
Pogue, David Gender: M
David Welch Pogue
born on 9 March 1963 at 09:09 (= 09:09 AM )
Place Shaker Heights, Ohio, 41n28, 81w32
Timezone EST h5w (is standard time)
Data source
Bio/autobiography
Rodden Rating B
Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data s_su.18.gif s_piscol.18.gif 18°17' s_mo.18.gif s_vircol.18.gif 10°03 Asc.s_taucol.18.gif 14°38'



David Pogue (in October 2010)
photo: Ed Schipul, license cc-by-sa-2.0

Biography

American technology writer and TV science presenter. He is a personal technology columnist for Yahoo Tech, a tech correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, a columnist for Scientific American and a former technology columnist for The New York Times. He is also the host of NOVA ScienceNow on PBS and was the host of the NOVA specials Making Stuff in 2011 and Hunting the Elements in 2012.

Pogue 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 now includes over 100 titles covering a variety of Macintosh and Windows operating systems and applications. Among the dozens of books Pogue has authored is The World According to Twitter (2009), written in collaboration with around 500,000 of his Twitter followers.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes from "The World According to Twitter" by David Pogue (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2009), p. 31: "Actually, the numerology coincidences revealed in my question is only part of the story. I was born at 9:09 a.m. on March 9, 1963 (note that 6 + 3 = 9). I weighed 9 pounds, 9 ounces. My parents had been married 9 years."

Categories

  • Vocation : Entertainment : TV host/ Personality
  • Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
  • Vocation : Writers : How To ....
  • Notable : Awards : Emmy (Business Emmy, 2004)