Fake Steve Jobs signs off, Real Dan Lyons logs in

Jordan Golson — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:30:24 -0700

Fake Steve Jobs has blogged for the last time. Dan Lyons, former Senior Editor at Forbes, has hung up his Fake Steve blogging reins. One of the reasons: Concern for the real Steve Jobs's health. "After seeing how he looked at WWDC," Lyons didn't want to get stuck blogging during a possible cancer relapse, or any other health issue, Lyons tells The Standard. Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer several years ago, but was given a clean bill of health after treatment.

Lyons will be taking most of the summer off to spend time with his family, including his young twins, and will start work at Newsweek around Labor Day. He told me that Newsweek was initially very excited about Fake Steve Jobs coming to the newsweek.com site, and were disappointed to hear that he had decided to shut down FSJ -- but are still supportive of his decision.

The Fake Steve blog will remain up for posterity, and Lyons is selling a "greatest hits" book compilation of the best posts from FSJ over the years. Dan will continue blogging at his site, Real Dan Lyons, and will, of course, write for Newsweek.

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