Comments on: Fake Steve Jobs = Daniel Lyons

By: amrit gill

amrit gill — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:26:13 +0000

amrit gill
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Amrit gill owes me money…

By: Richard Wicks

Richard Wicks — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:02:37 +0000

This is the same man that, abuot blogs, once said:

“Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and Yahoo.”

How can you stand the hypocrisy?

By: Le Blogueur » Blog Archive » Réflexions et sondage sur les fausses identités numériques

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:43:09 +0000

[...] au phénomènes des fakeblogs dont le plus connu est certainement FakeSteveJobs (récemment découvert comme étant l’oeuvre d’un journaliste de Forbes). Il s’agit de prendre l’indentité d’une [...]

By: Geek And Poke

Geek And Poke — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:32:06 +0000

Thank God It’s Over…

See TechCrunch or Larry Dignan…

By: Eran

Eran — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:39:42 +0000

What a mess.
The fun part of the Fake Steve Jobs was not the mystery behind who it really is, but imagining The REAL Steve Jobs remarking and writing in his particular way. The posts were simply witty and superimposing the Apple creator behind the remarks made it so much more brilliant.
What a mess, it was definitely not needed. Now I have the face of Daniel Lyons (no offense Daniel) behind the words…it is simply not as funny as it was.
Power of journalism at its best…how ironic.

-Eran

By: DotPoet

DotPoet — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:10:49 +0000

There was always a kid
Named Frankie or Sid
That would tell the seeker
Where the rest of us hid.

He’d tattle in class
Then we’d kick his ass
But his song never changed
He’d fink once again

So thanks, Brad and John
For not letting Fake Steve march on
Some may think you two are cool,
Just watch your back after school…

By: Paul Bradish

Paul Bradish — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:41:49 +0000

I had a good time reading Fake Steve Jobs, but don’t think that I’ll be reading it any longer now that I know who it is :). Marketing ruse indeed.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:23:27 +0000

who would want to read the now obvious marketing materials for some guy’s upcoming business book given this new information? readers should feel duped, the entire thing was a marketing ruse and channel for a publication date…

By: Owen

Owen — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:23:50 +0000

Fake steve jobs was fun, I guess. I never read it, I thought it was dumb. Real Daniel Lyons is a journalist with a strong anti-open source and anti-blogger bias (he has been a major SCO booster throughout their law suits just to name one example). His entire personal blog is basically an anti-Groklaw site. That’s not the same kind of fun.

By: Shambhu Borah

Shambhu Borah — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:53:51 +0000

But he’s still great when he slips back into his persona:

“Well, I’m taking a few days off to sit in a lake and do some yoga and meditation and non-thinking.”

By: Keith Shepard

Keith Shepard — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:48:45 +0000

Perfect! Now, Daniel Lyons just needs to get the real Steve Jobs to write for the fake Steve Jobs blog and people with think it’s Daniel Lyons tying to be Steve Jobs when in reality IT IS Steve Jobs.

The perfect set-up in a bland world that’s yoinked around by a media culture that farts gold.

By: nay min thu

nay min thu — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:05:37 +0000

Umm, now that it’s been revealed, it won’t be fun anymore, guessing who’s behind.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:02:31 +0000

I think it stinks. I liked not knowing. I’ll still read of course for the wit, but I think it was a crappy thing to do to someone.

By: NotSteve

NotSteve — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:27:23 +0000

“The Fake Steve guessing game became nearly a sport on certain blogs, and a number of people have been outed previously as being Fake Steve.”

Tell me about it. I just lunched my blog in search of Fake Steve, and this guy from NY Times has “F”-d everything. I was going to ask you my usual question soon: “Hmm, Mike, are you Fake Steve?”
But you don’t have to answer now. No one has to answer now. My blog is useless, I am useless. Damn!

By: housetier

housetier — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:19:46 +0000

If a tree falls on a mime and then is made into paper on which these news are printed, and no one is around to read them - does anyone care?

By: Medina

Medina — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:04:42 +0000

Never heard of him or the blog. Any press is good press.

By: Ola

Ola — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:35:21 +0000

Thanks a lot, Timestard!

By: Thomas - Technical Blogger

Thomas - Technical Blogger — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:43:47 +0000

The Guy Who Outed Fake Steve Jobs, Hero or Ass?…

Fake Steve Jobs admitted he has been busted in his post Damn, I am so busted, yo. If you have been living under a rock, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs is a great satire of the daily life of Steve Jobs. It contains daily posts on trivial things that mi…

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:41:41 +0000

I think we should have seen this coming. The NYT loves exposing all kinds of secrets. Concerts, Bloggers, issues of national security…

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:25:32 +0000

I just like the word “mangina”. I like it even more that it comes from a sr. editor at Forbes. It’s like Old Media hurling itself into 8th grade. More please.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:09:24 +0000

There are still a billion copycat Fake —– to be discovered.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:04:05 +0000

He was coming out anyhow. There’s a book coming out and Forbes was going to include columns. Someone was going to spill it.

By: Saagar

Saagar — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:02:11 +0000

Some people probably have fun in ruining other people’s fun or it is probably fame they are after, whatever it is, I am pretty sure the FSJ blog won’t be as fun as it was anymore for anyone..

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:55:06 +0000

Lame… isn’t there some sort of “tort” this could fall under? Attempting to financially injure another person?

NY Times is grabbing at straws. They are going down, and they know it - they just want to try and drag everyone with them.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:51:53 +0000

I guess there was some chance that the person behind it would be an apple employee, but I don’t think it will make too much difference that people know who it is.