Follow TechBlips on Twitter
![After Yang, What Should Yahoo Do? [GigaOM]](http://images.dailyradar.com/media/uploads/tech/story_story/2008/11/18/after_yang_what_should_yahoo_do_gigaom.jpg)
Newsweek bosses ensure Fake Steve Jobs blogger will blog no more [Confirmed]
Gawker: valleywag —
... have been confirmed: Dan Lyons told Valleywag alumnus Jordan Golson via phone that (A) Newsweek, his new employer, ordered Lyons to remove a blog post calling Yahoo publicists "lying sacks of shit," and (B) rather than continue to blog under the boss's watchful eye, Lyons — once Internet-famous as the ...
Report: Newsweek orders Dan Lyons to be nice
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... During that same reporting this crack team of lying sacks of shit put one of Yahoo's attorneys in Washington on the phone to tell me, over and over, the true "inside story" of what was going on with the Google deal ... The take-away: Do not believe a word that Yahoo says. Ever."
The situation has the classic whiff of web-dazzled old media cluelessly buying into the new, exposing its fear of losing access to sources in an implosive and cowardly spasm of self-moderation.
Real Dan Lyons bails on blogging [Standard via Valleywag]
...
Roundup: IBM snags Transitive, HP buoys market, Transmeta sells out
VentureBeat —
... Real Dan Lyons quits Newsweek: After a couple of his posts were pulled (one attacking Yahoo, the other skewering AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher), the Real Dan Lyons (aka the former Fake Steve Jobs) has quit his new blogmaster. ...
The “Real” Dan Lyons Could Never Exist At Newsweek — Or Forbes, For That Matter
Technology - Channel Feed —
... You may have heard that Dan “Fake Steve Jobs” Lyon was forced to yank a couple of posts — and that he’s threatened (or may have actually) left his blogging post over the fact. Although Valleywag does a nice timeline and ...
Dan Lyons Says Kiss My Ass and Quits Blogging
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... Jordan Golson from the Industry Standard reports that Dan told him “that he is hanging up his personal blog as RealDanLyons.com after his Newsweek bosses made him yank his post where Lyons (rightly) called Yahoo’s PR staff ‘lying sacks of shit’ ...
Linkpost | 11.19.2008
TechBlog —
... - And we'll need this when we're all vacationing on Mars. • The Real Dan Lyons bails on blogging - After editors forced him to pull down several posts (language alert). • ...
Real Dan Lyons blog removes Yahoo stories
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... instead. This has included some pretty pungent stuff, but recently the pungent stuff has started vanishing. And according to The Industry Standard -- The Real Dan Lyons bails on blogging -- he may have stopped altogether. ...
The Right to Blog vs. the Right to Eat
Internet Evolution: —
... (not acting as Crazy Steve anymore, but still out of control and saying what he really thinks). But it looks as if Lyons won't be blogging anymore at all, according to reports by The Industry Standard that -- after being asked by his current employer, Newsweek , to take down a couple of less-than-sweet words he posted about Yahoo on his blog -- Lyons has decided to bag the whole thing. The offending post called Yahoo's PR people "lying sacks of [ you fill in the blank. I, too, have an employer I'm trying to keep.]" for telling Lyons just weeks ago that the Google/Yahoo ...
Yahoo’s stock rockets…downward
VentureBeat —
... who was told and believed that Jerry Yang would not be stepping down as Yahoo’s chief executive. (Lyons recently was forced to remove posts on ...
Dan Lyons Fires Himself From His Own Blog
iPhone Savior —
... The abrupt firing came after Lyons removed a controversial post, "Jerry Yang Out" from his blog calling Yahoo's PR operators, "lying sacks of shit", feeling that he was given misleading information by Yahoo when writing a Newsweek piece last month. One report confirms that Noobweek bosses made him yank the inappropriate blog post shortly after Yahoo allegedly lodged a complaint against Lyons for being frighteningly accurate. [link] ...
Ex-Fake Steve Jobs says Real Steve is 'next to irreplaceable'
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... Jobs looks a lot older than his 53 years, and even before he pulled out of Macworld, much of the buzz about Apple was focused on who might succeed him as chief executive. It's hard to imagine any mere mortal attempting to fill his shoes. Anyway, it's good to know Real Dan is still alive. He hasn't posted any stories on his own blog since November 17, though there were some posts about Yahoo that were withdrawn. The Industry Standard story dated November 19 -- The Real Dan Lyons bails on blogging -- has proved to be true. ...
Welcome back, Fake Steve
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... blog -- one started under his own name, Dan Lyons. However, this ran into trouble over Yahoo. In November, The Industry Standard's Jordan Golson wrote: ...
