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Dan Lyons (Fake Steve Jobs) Moving to Newsweek
Dan Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, is leaving Forbes after 10 years to fill the vacancy left by Steve Levy, who is going to Wired. Now there are five horsemen of the apocalypse.
When Levy went to Newsweek, I wondered if his famed Apple access would follow him. With Fake Steve, reading columns like this, it's a safe guess he may not want any additional access that may come with the weight of Newsweek. He's a horseman, but I hope he keeps that outside, mainstream perspective that our whole little world of gadget review is a ridiculous one. [Peter Kafka's Brain]
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CutePuppyz
Posted 5:40 AM 14/6/08
I'm just amazed he's allowed to keep being Fake Steve!
CutePuppyz
LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
Posted 4:40 AM 14/6/08
Ah Fake Steve. Where do I being? How many times I've laughed at what he has written. How he loves Giz too.
But this is much to much to type. Anyhoo I think he had a deal with Forbes to keep up the FSJ thing, I wonder what is going to happen now?
Please Dan, keep up the FSJ thing!
LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
turly
Posted 4:22 AM 14/6/08
"Incontinentia" Lyons as we used to call him doesn't see eye-to-eye with the whole open-source thang and thinks Stallman is the antichrist. He's a businessman's writer.
Fake Steve Jobs is funny, though!
turly
PeterSimpson
Posted 3:53 AM 14/6/08
Mr. Lyons' coverage for Forbes of the SCO Group vs. Linux fiasco was sorely lacking in factual detail and objective reporting. Let us hope he has learned from the experience.
PeterSimpson
transparency
Posted 3:53 AM 14/6/08
me make type! me want job!
transparency
Samifumi
Posted 3:14 AM 14/6/08
You guys are more important than these guys.
Samifumi
Annex1
Posted 3:07 AM 14/6/08
I can't believe this guy got a job for all that. I can pretent to be someone, give me a job!
Annex1
ab12
Posted 7:42 AM 14/6/08
@Annex1: Can you pretend to be someone who can spell?
ab12
Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive
Posted 7:19 AM 14/6/08
Well it's a hell of a lot better than Fake Steve Ballmer.
Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive
bobdobbs' MBA misses LindsayJoy's MBP
Posted 8:22 AM 14/6/08
@LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: I still say you could do the Fake iJustine thing. I've got the video camera waiting.
bobdobbs' MBA misses LindsayJoy's MBP
LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
Posted 8:18 AM 14/6/08
@bobdobbs' MBA misses LindsayJoy's MBP:
Haha....I saw before when he posted, I'm quite a fan. Fact is he needs more material, and maybe FSJ is "going on vacation" but Dan Lyons isn't. I can't wait until he writes as Mossberg.......
LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
bobdobbs' MBA misses LindsayJoy's MBP
Posted 7:54 AM 14/6/08
@LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: It looks like he's taking some time off:
[fakesteve.blogspot.com]
bobdobbs' MBA misses LindsayJoy's MBP
AndrewJayPollack
Posted 10:58 AM 14/6/08
I can't stand this guy. He has always struck me as one of the most pre-biased writers in the tech world. He sets out to write hack pieces and doesn't let things like facts get in the way.
The "Fake Steve Jobs" thing was a good gimmick for him. He got to spout off without even pretending to have any basis for what he said.
I'll never buy Newsweek again. I didn't buy it before, but now I sure wont ever. I may not even sit near an old one in the Dr's office.
AndrewJayPollack
Annex1
Posted 5:29 PM 14/6/08
@ab12: No, why?
Annex1
LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
Posted 9:07 AM 15/6/08
@ab12:
Good lord, he had a typo, how bout you make a comment about how invalid his comment was or RTFA then get all typo-snobby.
Like say, he is not just FSJ, he is--no was senior editor at Forbes magazine, covering enterprise computing and consumer electronics and wrote noted articles such as "Attack of the Blogs". Then people might have a hair of respect for you as a commenter.
LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M