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.
Happy days! Oh, happy days!
http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/happydays.htm
With apologies to Morrissey & The Smiths…
I was minding my business
Surfing the Web on
The homepage of ZDnet blogs
With no worthwhile reading, all laughable lies
Then set my eyes on the blistering sight
Of a blogger in a tutu
He’s quite strange
And he’s packing up his desk today
A scanty bit of a man
With a fake spray-on tan
That wouldn’t fool a drunk Lindsey Lohan
As Bill sends the money to his lackey shills
Who got a story on OS X’s ills?
But a blogger in a tutu
He’s quite strange
And he’s packing up his desk today
The suits in the office
With heads full of profits
Said : “My man, hand over your key and your badge”
As George counts the money, Apple banisher
He’s out in the rain
His views so insane
My god !
The blogger in a tutu
Oh yeah
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh …
The blogger in a tutu
Oh yeah
Oh …
The next day in the TalkBack
With vitriol sleaze
Promoting ignorance, FUD, and PC’s
As George counts the money, Apple banisher
He’s out in the rain
Lies exposed again and again and again
In the fabric of a tutu
Such a man could get used to
And his cube has a ‘vacant’ sign
A ‘vacant’ sign
Sign…
Buh-bye, Georgie. Watch him as he pirouettes his way to obscurity. . .
Good riddance to bad rubbish!
“Learn english
A few would mean 1-3. A couple would mean 4-9.”
“Hacking Mac computers is big since the people that own them are more wealthy. It’s just that you don’t hear about them since criminal hackers don’t want you to.”
(On Mac OS vulnerability.) “I decided to settle this once and for all”
“OS X dates back to 2000”
– George Ou
@ Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamster
Best comic book ever.
that’s gotta hurt.
OUsted
OUtsourced
OUted
OU-revoir, sucka.. couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
that’s gotta hurt.
OUsted
OUtsourced
OUted
OU-revoir, sucka.. couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
that’s gotta hurt.
OUsted
OUtsourced
OUted
OU-revoir, sucka.. couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
that’s gotta hurt.
OUsted
OUtsourced
OUted
OU-revoir, sucka.. couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
that’s gotta hurt.
OUsted
OUtsourced
OUted
OU-revoir, sucka.. couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
that’s gotta hurt.
OUsted
OUtsourced
OUted
OU-revoir, sucka.. couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Maybe Ou could run for political blog office…anyone that could preach less “tolerance” than Obama and Hillary would get my vote.
“Peeeeee – ou”
Why does ZDNet need a George Ou when they’ve got Jason O’Grady. When a company is financially strapped, two Apple/Mac-haters on the payroll is an unaffordable luxury. But it does go to show how biased against Macs ZDNet and CNET have always been that they would have so many anti Mac columnists employed for a platform that, until recently, amounted less than 5% market share.
C1
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Parodying a song in the key of Ou minor
-how lame….
carry your sorry ass, you vile, lying assdog piece of shit!
He’ll end up working with Dvornut or Throttt in the end.
Spark:
O’Grady isn’t a Mac hater. He’s solidly a Mac guy, but he’s also kind of a dickhead.
He used to have a great web site. It started out as a PowerBook site, There were good informative news items, tips and other info. There were also fairly active Mac discussions, like here.
One day several years back, I forget the specifics, but a few people criticized him for something. He flew into a blog-rage, ragging on people and generally going ballistic.
The next day he shut down the discussion boards.
After a couple of years, he started ‘permitting’ a few people to post. Now you’ve got to jump through hoops to even TRY to post, going through several layers of those “type the distorted text image” thingies.
@Harry,
Because MDN says it is and it’s their website. Get with the program, ya mutt.
Just because he’s into ballet, that doesn’t necessarily mean George is a little light in the loafers.
I have it on good authority that at least 3 male ballet dancers were straight.
Straight ballet dancers, like straight figure skaters, get laid a lot.
@ Mr. Reeee,
True about Jason O’Grady. He lives here in Philly (in the Northeast). He is a Mac person, but has become increasingly critical of Apple ever since that Asteroid lawsuit.
I’ve never met him, but the tone of his columns suggests he would benefit from a Prozac script.
CNET will never fire Ina Fried. How else can you kill 3 quota birds with one stone (male, female, and somewhere in between).
The famous Nazi propagandist Joseph Gerbils?
This is a great day for Journalistic Integrity.
Okay, George wrote some of the stupidest stuff on his blog. However, I believe it was more out of ignorance and low brain power than malice. So, I feel a little sorry for him.
I’m just laughing because he probably was looking forward to writing about the MBA getting hacked at the SecCanWest conference yesterday, because it was the topic of whether Macs can be hacked where George made himself infamous in the Mac world.
@Mr Reeee & Cubert
Yes, it was the Asteroid lawsuit that I remember him from. I didn’t know much about him before that unfortunate issue, but since then he certainly has and writes with a negative view of Apple. So maybe “Mac-hater” is the wrong description. I will modify it to “Apple-Hater”. But it is sadder than that because O’Grady really wants to love Apple, but cannot because he feels he has been wronged. He’s more of a spurned lover that takes his bitterness public.
@Spark,
Exactly!
@ Cubert
“CNET will never fire Ina Fried. How else can you kill 3 quota birds with one stone (male, female, and somewhere in between).”
Nice. I’m still waiting for my free job.
George Ou? Why the hell didn’t they send Mary Jo Foley packing too. Talk about an ignorant douchebag who has no place working under the guise of a journalist. Surely no other blogger detracts more from the credibility of ZDNet than old Mary Jo.
@CrissyOne,
As a huge Smiths fan, I take no offense at all. I would like to go on the record that The Smiths rock…
And so do you, Ma’am.
Very well done.
~M
I’m thinking of one for Enderle…
Something like There is a Light (but it Never Comes On)
in related news Zune Tang seems to have retired
Re: O’Grady
Likes the products (used to concentrate on them nearly exclusively) but feels that he has been burned by Apple management, so he widened the focus of his efforts to include good stuff from as many companies as possible. Pulls no punches with Apple, but appreciates home run products from them as much as from anybody else.
ChrissyOne
@ Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamster
Best comic book ever.
Better than Reid Fleming: World’s Toughest Milkman?
ChrissyOne
With apologies to Morrissey & The Smiths…
That was awesome… Well Done…
Love the Smiths.