AdScam/The Horror! (Free subscription) | yesterday
So, the Wizard of Oz and The Borg (Fake Steve Jobs name for Microsoft) are teaming up to cut Google out of the news aggregation business. Fat Fucking Chance. As David Weir over at BNet points out, legally, what search...
Iphone Updates (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Filed under: Humor, Cult of Mac, TUAW Interview We got a chance to sit down (virtually) with the unofficial version of everyone’s favorite iCEO, via his alter ego & consigliere Dan Lyons. Fake Steve’s perspective is always unique and sometimes astonishing; read on. TUAW: Fake Steve, thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to speak [...]
Gypsy Scholar (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Target Chamber Lawrence Livermore Lab (Image from Newsweek ) Somewhat recently, I posted an entry on a talk by one of my former Berkeley professors in the history of science, John Heilbron, who reported on the rise of 'Big Science' in the United States for UC Berkeley's 2006 Bancroft Centennial Symposium in his lecture on " Big Science and Big Bridges ." As things turn out, the torch for...
Switched (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Stairs have proven a formidable opponent for robots (and their makers), but both creator and created keep trying to climb. Core77 rounds up (with videos) a number of robots...
Efinditnow (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Filed under: Humor, Cult of Mac, TUAW Interview We got a chance to sit down (virtually) with the unofficial version of everyone’s favorite iCEO, via his alter ego & consigliere Dan Lyons. Fake Steve’s perspective is always unique and sometimes astonishing; read on. TUAW: Fake Steve, thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to speak [...]
iPhone, the Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Filed under: Humor, Cult of Mac, TUAW Interview We got a chance to sit down (virtually) with the unofficial version of everyone’s favorite iCEO, via his alter ego & consigliere Dan Lyons. Fake Steve’s perspective is always unique and sometimes astonishing; read on. TUAW: Fake Steve, thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to speak [...]
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
#10 The iPod Will Flop By Fake Steve Jobs From Newsweek The iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput.' — Sir Alan Sugar, February 2005 We thought it was hilarious when Sir Alan Sugar predicted that by the end of 2005 the iPod would be “dead, finished, gone, kaput.” I remember saying, “Wow, that’s so weird, because I was just thinking the exact same thing about Sir Alan...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Betcha this morning there’ll be a whole lotta handwringing about the terror trials in NYC . Washington Journal: 7:30am – Daniel Lyons, Newsweek, Senior Editor. 8am – Pat Buchanan, Syndicated Columnist & Peter Fenn, Democratic Strategist. 9am – Chouchou Namegabe, 2009 Knight Int’l Journalism Award Recipient. 9:30am – Dimitri Simes, Nixon Center, President. ABC’s...
MacEvangelism (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Let me put my cards on the table. I’ve talked at length with Daniel Lyons, sometimes known as ‘The Fake Steve Jobs,” and he’s a really nice guy. So I was optimistic that Macs would get really responsible coverage when he joined Newsweek.But I was wrong.You see, Lyons’ serious columns have been seriously lacking in [...] 1 Vote(s)
Focus on Britain (and Europe) (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has proved, yet again, that he is a dinosaur who does not fit in with today’s world in the 21st century. Miffed by aggregators, like Google News, Murdoch has sworn to fight Google and other online aggregators with all his might. Apparently, the old chap does not like the enormous traffic that aggregators like Google drive to his online assets. Another fool,...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
"(Blogs) are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective.”- The Fake Steve Jobs, Daniel Lyons...
Later On (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Fake Steve Jobs has an excellent post titled “Why the mainstream media are dying“. It begins: Every once in a while you get to see a mainstream outlet cover a story right alongside a blog, so you can put them up against each other and see why one was so much better than the other. [...]
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Fake Steve Jobs points to the NYT's kid-gloves piece on Zynga, published the same week as bloggers exposed Zynga's scummy doings, as reason number one for Big Print's Decline: "The truth is, if newspapers want to survive they should go back to doing what they started out doing -- muckraking, stirring the shit, calling bullshit."...
Econsultancy blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The market for virtual goods, and the CPA offers that many consumers complete to purchase them, is under attack. The first salvo was fired by TechCrunch's Michael Arrington and the battle has now spread to the mainstream media. The fallout was quick . And it continues: after being the target of no less than six TechCrunch posts in the past week relating to these ' scam ' offers, Zynga, one of the most...
Gordon's Notes (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Dan Lyons, writing as his alter ego "fake steve jobs", tells us how big glossy business magazine stories are made. It's a story everyone should know. (The "filthy hack" is Dan Lyons of course, and he's getting some revenge served cold ...) The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Exclusive Story Opportunity ... ...One of the filthiest hacks on the beat has been trying to curry favor with...
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