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A few weeks ago, Forbes editor Dan Lyons, writing as Fake Steve Jobs, wrote a devastating analysis of the One Laptop Per Child project. On Tuesday, Wayan Vota, a blogger who follows the OLPC project, responded in essence, that while he agreed with Fake Steve, he still agreed with the project's aims. That would have been the end of it, except for a comment left on his post by "Fake Steve Jobs." The problem? Lyons didn't leave that comment. Vota compared the IP address that left the comment to others that he'd received and tracked it back to the Racepoint Group, the PR firm that reps OLPC. The commenter has since apologized, but the damage is done. To Kyle Austin, soon-to-be-fired flunky at Racepoint Group we say: great spin control. Proof after the jump.
(Screenshot from DCMetblogger)
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I have to give Kyle credit for his faking skills, if not his judgment. His comment was so FSJ that I was almost fooled into thinking it was really FSJ.
Expect that unlike Kyle's FSJ, the real FSJ actually gives OLPC News props for keeping an eye on Negroponte's grand plan.
Maybe the kid should read his boss' book "Marketing to the Social Web"
[www.amazon.com]
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