George Ou is saying goodbye to ZDNet, at the behest of ZDNet.
“ZDNet blogs has been my online home since 2004. With the help and a lot of guidance from David Berlind, Stephen Howard-Sarin, and David Grober, I was brought in to the world of blogging and journalism. I enjoyed my work and all the conversations here and I hope you found it informative and entertaining,” George Ou posted this morning to his ZDNet blog.
MacDailyNews Take: Nope. Try deceptive and amateurish:
• ZDNet’s George Ou Exposed as Ignorant Microsoft Shill – RoughlyDrafted
• George Ou’s Greatest Apple Hits! – The Macalope
• George Ou: When Gerbilling isn’t fun enough – Artie MacStrawman’s Apple Orchard
• George Ou’s Bad Idea: Comparing Apple Ads to Nazi Propaganda – Wired
Ou writes, “As of March 26, 2008, I have to say goodbye to ZDNet because of some corporate restructuring. I have no ill will towards any of my managers and I hold no grudges towards the company. This will be my last and final post on ZDNet so farewell my friends.”
Full article here.
Surely some wastewater recovery plant somewhere needs a shit-stirrer.
Badbye, Georgie.
MacDailyNews Note: ZDNet is part of CNET Networks, Inc. The Associated Press reported yesterday, “CNet Networks Inc. says it is laying off 120 employees as part of an effort to streamline the online media company while generating more content for its news and entertainment sites.”
AP reports, “All the layoffs — about 4.4 percent of CNet’s work force — will involve employees in the U.S., according to a document CNet filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.”
Full article here.
Who’s Ou?
Some Mac hating oushbag
Why is this Mac news ?
LOL!! very funny, murasaki.
At least now he can finally pursue that ballet career.
Adios idiot! Who’s the next to go? Enderle? Dvorak?
C1: I hear he looks FABulous in a tutu!
How is Ou pronounced?
OOOOH? (as in tutu)
… or OW!
OW as in shit-stirring in a tutu?
Ou-ch.
“And you get your IT security information from commercials now? Yes they conveyed the idea pretty well, but then again so did Joseph Gerbils. If you tell a lie often enough, people begin to believe it.”
– George Ou
“Oh. Oh, God. It’s over the line to compare an ad campaign to the Nazis. It’s just damn funny to anthropomorphize the leader of one of history’s most insidious propaganda campaigns into an adorable woodland creature. Nerd flame-outs are the best.”
– Pete Mortensen, Wired
“George Ou was lame, I guess
Nothing more, nothing less”
from “Ballad of George Ou”….
There will ALWAYS be a place for him at Mickey-D’s!
I clicked on the link and saw a picture of his “Ou” face……
OOOOH… Gerbils!
“Oh, George, don’t stay
Please go away”
from ‘Ballad of George Ou”…..
Rogue ego.
Don’t be too happy, I heard Enderle Group is hiring. His wife retires on the same day as BillyG.
“Out of darkened internet came
a Cupertino gang with just one aim
to right some ignorant, gas passing bi”
from “The Ballad of George Ou
“…..
(sorry)
Ou the humanity!
Check this out!
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/
George can’t even get the spelling right; it’s Joseph Goebbels.
Getting rid of Ou this late in the game doesn’t absolve ZDNet of the bulk of the responsibility.
They bankrolled his biased, ignorant, inflammatory, and unprofessional opinions about Apple and continue doing so with other bloggers in their stable.
The whole ZDNet should be taken down.
Harry, this is Mac News because of his many Mac-related statements in the past – mostly (in the very least) incorrect. He had a pretty good understanding of the Windows world, though he was quite forgiving of it and amazingly defensive (without actually sounding so) of it. There was always a reason for him to minimize the problems Windows users faced and to exaggerate the potential problems a Mac user MIGHT face. In a different life, I guess.
This is Mac News because the Mac world is getting a tiny, inconsequential, thorn out of its toe. Which reminds me that I didn’t check my sugars this morning – much more important, all around.
Eeeeew! Ou.
Apparently, Micky Mouse wears a George Ou watch.