FSJ: Fake Steve Jobs revealed !!

August 6th, 2007 by Annkur


FSJ: Fake Steve Jobs, Yes we haven’t been tracking this one on OnlyGeek but i thought its good enough to post the climax.

For the last 14 months, high-tech insiders have been eating up the work of an anonymous blogger who assumed the persona of Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive and one of the world’s most famous businessmen.

The acerbic postings of Fake Steve, as he is known, have attracted a plugged-in readership both the real Mr. Jobs and Bill Gates have acknowledged reading the blog (http://www.fakesteve.blogspot.com). At the same time, Fake Steve had evaded the best efforts of Silicon Valley’s gossips to discover his real identity.
So whos he really?
Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes magazine who lives near Boston, has been quietly enjoying the attention.

I am stunned that it’s taken this long, said Mr. Lyons, 46, when a reporter interrupted his vacation in Maine on Sunday to ask him about Fake Steve. I have not been that good at keeping it a secret. I have been sort of waiting for this call for months.?

Mr. Lyons receives around 50 e-mail messages a day through the blog, many with ideas for posts, and says the site had 700,000 visitors last month. Recently someone claiming to be Mr. Jobs’s daughter, Lisa, wrote to tell him,You don’t sound at all like my father, but your blog is hilarious.

FSJ once replied to a question on his succession plans (Who takes over when you leave?)
“The truth is, I am not human — I am a man-god, son of Zeus (in photo above; please note resemblance), born to mortal woman but fathered by the ruler of the gods, lord of thunder. If I do leave, Apple shuts down. Immediately. No guff. It’s in my contract.”

So go ahead and check out FSJ at http://www.fakesteve.blogspot.com

Image from Techshout (nice work)

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