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NY Times' Pogue-O-Matic Guides Your Gadget Shopping, Sets My Heart Aflutter
Posted by Elaine Chow at 4:30 PM on November 19, 2008
Maybe it's because I have the hugest crush on David Pogue of the New York Times, but I find his recently released product finder guide, the Pogue-O-matic, absolutely adorable... and useful too! The Pogue-O-Matic is divided into four parts: cameras, camcorders, smartphones and televisions. If you were planning on getting people any of the above for the holidays, stop by and have little e-Pogue explain what details you should look out for. Being a gadget blogger with a finger on the pulse of the latest and greatest, I personally don't need the advice. But I'll be stopping by anyway... for you, Pogue. Just. For. You. [Pogue-o-Matic on the New York Times]
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Clancycoop
Posted 7:34 PM 19/11/08
Check out what happens if you don't click on any of the selections after his first little intro. It goes on way longer than you think, and is quite entertaining.
No I don't have a job, why do you ask?
Clancycoop
vantechmag
Posted 7:21 PM 19/11/08
Nice idea, but I didn't get the selection to work and it's simply NOT that easy to select the best alternative, either...
I should now, because my site - www.vantechmag.com - is consider to have the finest and most accurate Best Buy guide!
And that make me very proud ;-)
vantechmag
VanniGreene
Posted 7:19 PM 19/11/08
Yay for Pogue! Let's watch Mossberg follow suit with the Mosshole-o-matic gadgets-for-people-who-hate-technology... picker.
VanniGreene
Jason
Posted 7:42 PM 19/11/08
@Clancycoop: "I told you not to call me on this number!"
Jason
Elaine Chow
Posted 7:42 PM 19/11/08
@Clancycoop: AH CHOO
Elaine Chow
hanswurst0815
Posted 7:40 PM 19/11/08
@Clancycoop: I couldn't get myself to click either until it repeated after some minutes.
hanswurst0815
corpus_goatse_tx
Posted 9:32 PM 19/11/08
I was expecting something about Shane MacGowan.
corpus_goatse_tx
stryder100
Posted 12:08 AM 20/11/08
Cool. I have his recent iPhone: The Missing Manual, and it's quite good.
stryder100
not a sailor boy
Posted 1:27 AM 20/11/08
Elaine, Davide Pogue is clearly gay...i'm not saying that makes you a fag hag or anything. sorry to crush your crush.
not a sailor boy
bosskev
Posted 2:14 AM 20/11/08
@not a sailor boy: Actually, no, he isn't. And, while having a wife and kids--which he does--is in itself no guarantee of "straightness", I've met him and he is definitely not gay. (There were a couple of spurious blips flashing on my gadar screen, but those were just from David being David--relaxed and charming with no need for macho posing.)
He's also quite cute, witty, friendly and smart. All of which, sad to say, only deepens my hopeless crush on him.
bosskev
TOWken
Posted 3:25 AM 20/11/08
The little buyer's guide works if you don't know anything about the product (i.e. camera, smartphone, TV, camcorder) you want to purchase, but I was a little let down by the limited suggestions and product information it gives you. Gimmicky, but not all that useful. Sorry Elaine.
TOWken
mrburglar
Posted 4:46 AM 20/11/08
The brand names listed are pretty small -- no Sharp, for example. FAIL.
mrburglar
blore40
Posted 4:35 AM 20/11/08
Next up: Walt-Mart on WSJ.
blore40
Elaine Chow
Posted 7:59 PM 20/11/08
@not a sailor boy: You're clearly a big fat booger. What do you say to that?
And yes, Pogue is married with children. Alas, our love will never be. I can only stare at him longingly from the other side of the tech reporting world.
Elaine Chow
not a sailor boy
Posted 11:11 PM 20/11/08
@Elaine Chow: i am a booger...or maybe I was hoping to have a crush on Pogue and felt threatened by you....
not a sailor boy