My new addiction IS TED.  I watched one video, and then another, and then another, and then another… well, you get the point.  The bottom line is, I LOVE TED videos.  I downloaded the TED app for my iPhone, added the TED updater to my Twitter… And I don’t just watch videos on one thing.  I watch videos on EVERYTHING.  I watched some videos that were posted on TED for talks that weren’t given at the TED conference [Mike Rowe and Adam Savage, for example].

One of my favorite presenters, though, was David Pogue.  I’ve watched all of his talks that are posted, listened to his hilarious song parodies [which I will post links to at the end of this post], and I’ve been endlessly reading his blog on the NYTimes website [and subscribed to it via Google Reader].

One of my favorite things about David Pogue is not what he’s currently doing, but what he’s done: he graduated summa cum laude from Yale with a distinction in music and spent ten years conducting and arranging music for Broadway.  Not only is he a huge tech geek and an Emmy award winner for his tech correspondance on CBS News, but he’s a true musician!  What’s more, he’s a very well-known how-to writer.  He’s co-authored a handful of Dummies books, and he codesigned and and wrote the manual for Finale, a music program that I use often [and thanks, David... the manual is exceptionally helpful!].  Moreover, he is hilarious to read and watch, but effective as well.

David Pogue’s Website NYTimes Tech Blog TED Talk – Cool Cell Phone Tricks “I Want an iPhone” YouTube Video

So, now you know and [hopefully] understand my David Pogue addiction