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After being known for close to two years as Fake Steve Jobs,
Daniel Lyons, a former Forbes magazine journalist, writing on a blog page entitled
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, decided on shutting down the popular page, moving
to Newsweek as a technology columnist and starting a brand new blog Web page under
his real name.
“I tried transitioning to other voices, like Jerry Yang’s,
but it just didn’t work,” Mr. Daniel Lyons said, referring to Yahoo’s chief of
operations. “It seems clear that people reading the blog wanted to read Fake
Steve or nothing.” He explained that he grew a bit tired of the fictional
creation and also, more relevant, were his worries about cracking jokes at the
expense of a person with alleged heath issues. The speculations about Mr. Steve
Jobs’ health were started by a report in the New York Times, covering one of
last month’s conferences, where he appeared changed.
The huge success of his blog page made him turn his posts
into a novel called “Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody,”
published in October by Da Capo Press, and also prepares a screenplay based on
the book, acquired by the Hollywood production company Media Rights Capital.
The screenplay does not refer to Mr. Steve Jobs and presents the story of a
generic chief executive.
Many are sure to miss Daniel Lyons’ work but it is just a matter of time before he’ll start growing tired of the rather boring
technology news and come up with a new and exciting character.
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