Dan ‘Fake Steve Jobs’ Lyons apologizes for not being funny anymore
Friday, September 19, 2008 - 02:02 PM EST"Dan Lyons the former Forbes editor whose brilliant Web parodies of Apple’s CEO entertained tech enthusiasts for two years, publicly apologized Friday to those who complain that he’s not funny since he stopped writing as his alter ego, the Fake Steve Jobs," Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
"Lyons stopped contributing to his popular blog, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, in July. He now writes a column for Newsweek and a blog called Real Dan," Elmer-DeWitt reports. "According to Lyons, neither has been particularly well-received. 'I get these e-mails all the time: 'I don’t understand how Fake Steve can be so good and you can be so bad. Your blog sucks, dude.''"
Elmer-DeWitt reports that Lyons, speaking in New York City at the Web 2.0 Expo, "told the audience. 'I apologize... I really am much less interesting than Fake Steve as a writer.'"
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "JES42" for the heads up.]
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yawn... kinda glad he realized it. was getting tired of sending him the same email