Fake Steve Jobs runs scared - Valleywag Comments

Fake Steve Jobs runs scared

micedwards — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:55:02 PDT

Whispering words of wisdom: Let FSJ Be.

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Fake Steve Jobs runs scared

kidv — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:50:08 PDT

I am Fake Steve Jobs.

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Trackback — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:43:35 PDT

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blogging, Steve Jobs, TUAW BusinessThe other day, I posted a little summary of the latest attempts to discover the identity of anonyblogger Fake Steve Jobs. At the time, I thought finding FSJ's identity out would be a good time, a fun mystery to solve.

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Fake Steve Jobs runs scared

Trackback — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:58:44 PDT

Kendall left this comment on the last post about Facebook:My day has bothered me without a new post on AVCWell that's nice of you to say Kendall, but nobody is bothered more than me by a day without a post. It means I've basically had not a minute of free time all day to write. And I hate that.

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Fake Steve Jobs runs scared

Magister — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:03:52 PDT

And, if it is Nick Denton and if his own website were to unmask him, the publicity value will be lost. (Though, I guess if you don't and if he just leaves a trail of breadcrumbs, Valleywag's new media star will be guaranteed another round of talk shows, where he'll be able to shrug and say "I had no idea")

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mullingitover — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:54:26 PDT

Unmasking FSJ is just a plain asshole move. Please don't destroy my entertaining fantasy that it's actually Steve Jobs doing the writing.

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sample032 — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:32:02 PDT

It isn't Andy. The writing styles are different, and a visit to gender genie wasn't revealing, but their dictions were shown to differ.

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planetoftheapiarists — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:52:01 PDT

Why doesn't someone use language analysis tools on samples of Fake Steve's writing and on samples of the various suspects' writings? There's enough of Andy Ihnatko's around on the web.

There are almost certainly traits in people's writing - sentence length, frequency of different letters and words, etc. - that come through even if someone is disguising his style.

Heck, for "unmasking" FSJ what could be more appropriate than Unmask?

[www.immunitysec.com]

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deliriousnyc — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:44:03 PDT

It's the meth that's making him paranoid.

Just say "No", Fake Steve!

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rex — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:36:19 PDT

Uh-oh. Uh-oh-uh-oh.

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sample032 — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:23:50 PDT

"It's creepy. It's gross. It's wrong...sodomite."

Wait- is Fake Steve saying Nick's hitting on him?

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Figaro — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:51:08 PDT

Photographic evidence against Andy I. as FSJ:

1) Andy has MacBook Pro in all of the pics on his flickr account. [www.flickr.com]

2) Andy's hands look different: [www.flickr.com]

3) No wedding band: [www.flickr.com]

4) Andy I likes Millenium Falcon watch so much he bought three of them: [www.flickr.com]

FSJ has a diff watch.

But Andy has one other kind of a watch in this pic:
[www.flickr.com]

Still diff from FSJ watch.

So, who knows... but I don't think Andy I. is FSJ.

Figaro