Better late than never department: Fake Steve Jobs has posted that he's taking a break:
Stay hungry, my friends. Stay foolish. I love you all. I really do. I'm super-excited about the fact that I've been able to change the world and restore a sense of childlike wonder to your empty, meaningless lives. I honor the place where your disposable income and my sleek, gorgeous, super-exciting products have become one, and I wish you peace and happiness and all the joy in the world -- oh Christ now I'm crying. Dammit! Will someone please get in here with a box of Kleenex? . Okay. I'm okay. So look. To keep you from getting lonely, I've published the photo above so you can print it out and keep it on your desk and gaze at it while reciting our mantra -- Steve is fine, Steve is God; Steve is fine, Steve is God -- and you'll be able to keep yourself hypnotized until I get back.
But as Silicon Valley Insider says:
Forbes editor Dan Lyons, best known to most of you as Fake Steve Jobs, is leaving his employer after a 10-year run and jumping to Newsweek, where he'll take tech columnist Steve Levy's old slot.
Whether he'll return to FSJ the same or changed is another question. I'm starting to wonder if FSJ could be running into what we could call the Alf Garnett problem: you can satirize bigots only to find the bigots cheering you on.....
Update: The first guest blogger, Jerry Yang, has posted.
