John C. Dvorak

John C. Dvorak: Profile

John C. Dvorak is the current Weekly Tech Columnist for Dow-Jones Marketwatch as well as a columnist for PC Magazine, where he writes the weekly Inside Track online column.

John also does a weekly TV video podcast Crankygeeks as well as a daily Tech podcast called Tech5 and the weekly podcasts This Week in Tech (500,000 listeners) and No Agenda with Adam Curry as well as working as the Tech Channel VP at Podshow, inc. He is featured on CNBC as a guest analyst.

Previously, John was a columnist for Info! (Brazil) and BUG Magazine (Croatia), Forbes, Forbes Digital, PC World, Barrons, MacUser, PC/Computing, Smart Business and other magazines and newspapers, as well as a former editor and consulting editor for Infoworld. Has appeared in the New York Times, LA Times, Philadelphia Enquirer, SF Examiner, and Vancouver Sun. John was on the start-up team for CNet TV as well as ZDTV. At ZDTV (and TechTV) he was host of Silicon Spin for four years doing 1000 live and live-to-tape TV shows. He was also was on public radio for 8 years and has written over 4000 articles and columns as well as authoring or co-authoring 14 books.

The 2004 Award winner of the American Business Editors Association's national gold award for best online column of 2003, John followed up that honor by an unprecedented second national gold award from the ABEA in 2005, again for the best online column (for 2004). He won the Silver National Award for best magazine column in 2006.

Since 1982, John has been a popular and entertaining feature and keynote speaker at tradeshows, conferences, expositions, and corporate meetings. Tradeshows clients include the following: '85 NCC; '91 West Coast Computer Faire; '93 Softworld - Vancouver, B.C.; '94 1BBSCon; '95 2BBSCon. Germany; and, '95 ComputerFest, Toronto. He has given speeches both in the United States and abroad to a number of organizations. These include: Borland International; Apple Computer, IBM Sales/Marketing; IBM Technical Symposium; Compaq; AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants); Illinois CPA Association; General Electric/NBC; The Progressive Corporation; Nynex; Top Speed Corporation; Novell: CUE (Comten Users' Exchange, Inc.) for Bell Atlantic; INLY (Canada); Acer (Taipei); Fenasoft (Brazil); Clarion Software; Samsung (Korea); Ziff Davis Publishing; OS/2 Professional; NEC; Merisel (Canada); Ameritech; and M Technology, among others.