“For months, cyber sleuths have been trying to unmask the mysterious writer who has been spoofing the Apple co-founder on The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs Web site,” Keith J. Kelly reports for The New York Post.
“The frenzy heated up earlier this week after BusinessWeek’s Apple reporter John Burrows wrote that the fake Steve Jobs had landed a book deal. Cambridge, Mass.-based Da Capo Press, an imprint of Perseus Books, inked the mysterious writer to publish ‘Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs – A Parody by Fake Steve Jobs,'” Kelly reports.
“Sources tell Media Ink the advance is estimated to be only $75,000, a decidedly un-Jobs-like number, but that hasn’t stopped the buzz – or led to the revelation of the person behind the fake Steve Jobs,” Kelly reports.
Kelly reports, “Wired.com had been a paid sponsor of the Secret Diary Web site from February until just this past Monday. ‘He [fake Steve] called and said he wanted to end it for his own reasons,’ said Wired News Editor-in-Chief Evan Hansen.”
Kelly reports, “Hansen said he knew the identity of the writer, but much like an anonymous source, he has pledged not to break the silence. That has not stopped the guessing game, however. ‘All the names I’ve seen mentioned so far have been wrong,’ said Hansen. And the guess that it was his own managing editor [Leander Kahney] was wrong as well, he said. ‘The person is not a Wired staffer,’ he insisted.”
Full article here.
Hmm… slow news day… yawn!
Ok… it’s me. Now that all is open, can I get my 75k please?
C’mon. You know it’s me. Once.
nah … youre both wrong !! … now where did I put my mock-turtleneck ?
It’s got to be a woman.
They have fake down to a fine art.
I’M GONNA WRITE A BIOGRAPHY!
It’ll be about developers. And partners!!! No, not gay people who are in committed relationships. I’m talking about hardware partners, enterprise partners, partnering partners, international house of partners partners, and the people who clean the sweat out of my shirts! That’s a staff of 2 dozen!!! I have a lot of shirts! But since I have so many partners, that means we can give you our technology, and clean shirts, for Cheap! Cheap cheap CHEAP!!! And you can choose from any vendor you like! You know it’ll be alright, because we’ll get a cut of 95% of all computers sales on the planet! That’s how you know we mean quality, because we’re everywhere! That’s because people love us, like Paul Thurrott. He’s a good journalist partner. The best! Paul tells it like it is, most of the time, unless he’s talking bad about Zune or Vista. But you know he just does that because if he told the truth he’d seem like a fanboi. And Microsoft doesn’t have stupid fanbois!!! People just love us because we’re the best! 95%=the best!!! Just ask MacDonalds. Or Wal*Mart. THE BEST!!! Sometimes, other companies make up their own silly products. Products that don’t use Microsoft technologies. What are they thinking?! They don’t realize how cheap we can be, and therefore, how much more the BEST!!! You can get one of those, what are they called? MyPhones or something? Yeah, they’re vaporware anyway, but wow, 500 dollars?!?!?! WOW! And not WOW in a The Best way, like Vista. Just WOW. Who wants to pay that much? Not me!!! And I’m rich!!! I can get a Motorola Q phone for .75¢ and it does all the same stuff, and with Windows mobile, you get more!!! More menus, More buttons, More PARTNERS!!!! I made my kids use them, and they told me that they loved them. “Yeah dad, whatevar.” You know kids these days, ‘bad’ means ‘good’! They even said that Vista “suxxz0rz”. WOW!!! That must be great!!!
YAY!!!
My Biography,
By The Fake Steve Ballmer.
Men can fake it too but you have to carefully conceal a little squirt gun.
=)
-c
MW: ‘army’ (of me)
@ Big Al
We have to, otherwise you’d realize that “D” batteries make better lovers. ;P
my theory is it’s Merlin Mann…
you heard it here first
$75,000 is more than CHF 75,000 where I could sign
Gerard Baker, United States Editor for the Times of London.
OK, that’s a false trail.
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ChrissyOne..
Duracell … or re-chargables ?
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Re-chargables, of course. Must look after the planet. =)
OK, OK, I give up. It’s me.
Hey don’t fake me
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ChrissyOne
Thanx fer the tip.. the wife’s b-day is comin up in a couple of months ..
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Now I have an idea of what to get her
I don’t see what all the fuss is about. Fake Steve isn’t even funny. I love the idea, but if you’re going to do it, at least learn how to talk in SJ’s voice. FSJ’s writing sounds nothing like SJ.
FSJ is why I sign “yet another steve”… my favorite thing on the entire web. Seriously. If you don’t get it or like it, well, there are only how many million other blogs.
But I think FSJ is pure genius. When I look at the other “fake” blogs I realize how difficult it is. And duh… of course he doesn’t sound like the REAL SJ. It’s a fricken parody. Still the mixture of real Apple community sensibilities, over the top eccentric billionaire… you have to both love and be willing to skewer your subject to do something like this…
And I will be incredibly sad when the person behind the curtain is revealed… and worse… that person can’t possibly do this forever.
Trade in some of your shirts for a return key.
Must be Bill Gates
@ChrissyOne
I think you’re with the wrong one if you think that batteries would make a better lover than the one you have!
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@ NeverFade
I was only talking about men.
Do the math.
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@ ChrissyOne.
Ouch!
Okay,
C-1 is either:
A: As hot as she sounds
or
B: A 400 lb. zit with glasses
MDN Magic Word: cold as in I need a cold shower after some of your posts!