“I was talking with [John] Dvorak at the Vloggercon party this evening, and he started telling a story about how he deliberately pisses Mac users off to get flow for his stories, and I said, hold a minute, I want to record this, and shit if he didn’t stop and repeat it for me and my video camera,” Dave Winer reports for Scripting News.
Winer has posted a massive 20.8MB QuickTime movie of the tech blowhard’s admission here.
In case the link doesn’t work or is too slow, the video is also on YouTube:
Direct link to YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWDYaWAVQQ
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “S. Woods” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Not that we needed it (John dumped his last ounce of credibility down the drain years ago), but now we have definitive proof that Dvorak is the world’s largest Hawaiian shirt-wearing weasel. This is Dvorak’s “Paris Hilton moment.” Mercifully, he remains fully clothed throughout. This is a video which we can and will use as reference for Dvorak’s shams ad infinitum. Good move, John. You’re such a genius! Planning to retire soon?
[UPDATE: 12:20pm EDT: Fixed punctuation error. Thanks, dennis.]
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Sad thing is too many “Mac people” fell for his crap and gave him the hits.
And who didn’t know this?
The most recent TWIT episode Dvorak starts talking about how Canon Camera is halting production of all consumer level digital cameras. It took a few minutes for someone to correct him that Canon is only halting production of Canon film cameras.
He just makes things up, puts 2 and 1 together to get 4, and spouts it out.
I wish TWIT would ditch him.
Well, I guess it’s been entertaining? Yes/No?
He has to be joking about this. There’s no way a credible journalist would do that and admit it.
More like his Joe Namath moment. Where’s Suzy Kolber? HE’S DRUNK!! Smooth move, John!
First?
I’ve never given this troll a single hit. I was on to his antics even when he was on ZDTV back in the day.
Avoid this moron.
The sad thing is he actually has some interesting observations, but this admission has all but destroyed any cred this guy had left.
I don’t feel sorry for him. I feel sorry for MDN (Microsoft & Dell News) for reacting to his dribble and for adding pointless takes showing nothing but immaturity.
I’ve said that 1000 times yet everytime someone says something stupid, people from this website flock to their site and make them look important. Like freaking lemmings you all do it, over and over again, and you know who you are…
“I just went to his site and left him a message and told him how freaking stupid he is…”
blah blah blah…
oh. understood, webmaster.
and if you can’t find a better version, just open it up in iMovie or Final Cut and you can manually re-sync the audio-video.
Will MDN now start to totally ignore him please?
We no longer need new articles here by him.
I think Dave is now trolling for hits.
Who gives a shit what John Dvorak has to say? Really.
I feel used, like a $2 whore. Kinda like Dvorak’s wife.
god damn it!
I apologize, I wrote a 3 page letter to him.
Exactly, Macadaddyoo. No “credible” journalist would do that.
Usless twit.
a Pisser and Winer sitting on a tree…
What happened to HOAX’s post?
MacDailyNews Note: ‘getamac” has reposted the video to YouTube with the audio in better sync. Please watch the new version via YouTube above. Do you still think it’s a “hoax?”
APPLE JIHAD !!!!
GRRRRRRR
You’re still missing the point, there’s nothing wrong with Dvorak. He makes fools of US and laughs all the way to the bank.
So the next time he or any other “pundit” says something like, “Yeah, Apple will drop OS X and switch to Windows” or “The Mac is a mediocre platform” or whatever.. don’t go rushing off to that website to give them hits. It’s what they want.
what if this is more just part of his “plan”?
Ok. So === MDN PLEASE STOP POSTING STORIES ABOUT and BY THIS ASS.
Let’s stop feeding this cockroach.
OK, not a hoax. (Unbelievable!)
But don’t remove HOAX’s post as this historic moment unfolds.
We all knew he was hit trolling, but I never knew what aan art he’s made of it, even refining the process for not one, but three rounds of hits from each issue he chooses to strike.
From an objective standpoint I’m impressed by Dvorak (Rove impresses me in the same way: disgusting but effective – mb they’re the same person).
mw: “until” Dvorak will contuinue to get hit until we learn to ignore him.
Guys and Gals,
MacDailyNews needs to keep highlighting Dvorak’s and others’ garbage. If they ignore them, others will believe what Dvorak writes!
MDN exposes their lies. Shines a light on them. Dvorak just provided MDN with a spotlight of unlimited wattage.
I also feel like a whore. And, btw, Dvorak’s wife IS a whore. Many people don’t know this, but he pimps her out many times a month for some extra money.