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Yahoo scoop scandal roundup 
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
Turns out hacks left and right are just running with this Jerry Yang resignation story without even mentioning AllThingsD or giving Kara Swisher any credit at all for breaking this story first. Instead, the hacks are all just basing their articles on the Yahoo press release which came out a full ten minutes after the AllThingsD world exclusive scoop of the century. Check out the huge l
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Swishergate: New York Times fails to credit AllThingsD for Jerry Yang scoop
(unknown author) via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
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Dan Lyons is an asshole. I love him. He's like a 45-year-old me.
See their stunning article here, which makes no mention at all of the fact that AllThingsD broke this huge story a full ten minutes before the company announced it. The ner
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Kara Swisher: Everybody look at me! Not at Jerry! At me! At me! At me!
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
I just received an angry email from Kara Swisher of AllThingsD who chides me because in my previous post about Jerry Yang stepping down at Y
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Jerry Yang out
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
And Chairman Roy Bostock says it’s the right time for this to happen. I only wis
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“Electric car loses its juice”
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
My latest Newsweek column, about Tesla Motors, is here.
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Sun to cut 6,000
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
See the press release here. It’s classic Sun doublespeak. See, it’s not that they’re totally screwed or being run into the ground or dying because of a decade of bad decisions — nope, they’re “aligning their business with the global economic climate” and “amplifying growth opportunities across
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iJustine signs on as spokesmodel
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
I’m not making this up. iJustine, aka Justine Ezarik, the crazy Mac fangirl blogger vlogger Steve Jobs stalker, has been
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A government bail-out for Facebook?
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
That’s what some guy on CNET advocates. I think he’s kidding. Let me make a small prediction. There will be a lot of bailing out taking place at Facebook but it will be the old-fashioned kind — kids bailing out when they realize there’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and bigsh
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One Velociraptor Per Child
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
Won’t you please help the children? For ways to get involved, see here.
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I heart David Sedaris
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Tue, 21 Oct. 2008
Check out this essay in the New Yorker about undecided voters. Money quote:
To put them [undecided voters] in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the c
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Flack watch: “This downturn is going to be good for us.”
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Tue, 21 Oct. 2008
As we head into the maelstrom of another economic downturn, flacks and spinmeisters will be rushing out to tell the world why the bad times are actually go
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Sun to change ticker symbol again — now will be called OOPS.
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Tue, 21 Oct. 2008
Other ticker symbols considered included WTF and OUCH. In case you haven’t heard, My Little Pony announced yesterday that they’re going to lose buckets
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There is no bubble. There is no bubble. There is no — oops.
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Mon, 20 Oct. 2008
Visionary entrepreneur Marc Andreeeessssen did a Churchill Club interview on Sept. 4 with Kevin Maney of Portfolio magazine. The transcript is here (along with a very unkind PhotoShop picture of Andreeeeeessssssen where they made him look like Beldar.) Money quote comes on Page 3 of the
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Blodget: Yahoo will probably screw up layoffs, too
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Mon, 20 Oct. 2008
King of all media Henry Blodget says here that while Yahoo is about to announce massive layoffs, which is a good thing, it’s probably going to screw up on the execution. Reason? Well, we’re talking about Yahoo, which Blodget calls “AOL II.”
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Why is Jerry Yang still in charge?
(unknown author) via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Sun, 19 Oct. 2008
Shared by Nate
Someone needs to lead Yahoo out of this mess. Is there anyone alive, though, who can turn the company around and stare down the most powerful internet giant history has ever known?
My latest Newsweek column, now up online here.
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The “Apple tax”
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Fri, 17 Oct. 2008
The Borg has been going around making noise about the so-called “Apple tax” — ie the premium you pay for using a Mac instead of a Windows PC. Mac fanboys dispute the notion. My sense as a user is that there may indeed be an “Apple tax,” but who cares? My Macs and other Apple products may cost a little more bu
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iPhone abuse
(unknown author) via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Sat, 04 Oct. 2008
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Very, very funny especially the ending!
From the Onion.
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Peggy Noonan on Tina Fey as Sarah Palin
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Fri, 03 Oct. 2008
“To spoof someone well takes talent, but to utterly nail a political figure while not brutalizing him takes a real gift, and amounts almost to a public service. After all, to capture someone is a kind of tribute: it concedes he is real, vivid, worthy of note. … To observe life so closely takes a kind of love.”
It’s a point I’ve tried to make when giving talks about Fak
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