Author: David Strom

David Strom is one of the leading experts on network and Internet technologies and has written extensively on the topic for nearly 20 years for a wide variety of publications, including holding several editorial management positions for both print and online properties. He was the former editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware.com and Network Computing magazines, and has appeared on the Fox TV News Network, NPR's Science Friday radio program, ABC-TV's World News Tonight and CBS-TV's Up to the Minute news broadcasts. He is also the author of two computer-related books.
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Fake CEO Blogs

Posted by harshavardhan on Thought Beans Blog, November 2, 2007:

Fake Steve BlogThe Fake CEO blogs, have become a big buzz in the blogosphere. Amongst the fake blogs, the Fake Steve blog is most popular.

It is written by Daniel Lyons, a senior Editor at Forbes Magazine. It took almost 14 months to find out the author of this Fakesteve Blog. Daniel writes the Technology articles for Forbes.

There are other fake CEO blogs:

  • Fake Richard Branson
  • Fake Larry Ellison
  • Fake Bill
  • Fake Schwartz
  • Fake Steve Ballmer
  • Fake Steve

    • Thanks David Strom. Photo image: TheAge.com.au.

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    Fox News and the Ham Sandwich

    Thank you David Strom for sending us this story about Fox News falling for a parody of a news story about a ham sandwich incident in a middle school in Maine.

    From Think Progress:

      …The backstory: Last week in the town of Lewiston, Maine, a group of Somalian Muslim middle school students were the subject of a cruel prank when their peers placed a ham steak next to them in order to personally offend the students. School officials filed a report because the students considered the act to be a hate/bias crime.

      This actual story was then spoofed by a parody site called Associated Content, which made up quotes and details, such as the school”s intention to “create an anti-ham “˜response plan.””…

    Fox & Friends subsequently picked up the spoof story and reported it as news, or should we say, mocked what they thought was the news. Here’s the video:

    Continue reading “Fox News and the Ham Sandwich”

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    The New Virtuality, and Truth is Stranger than Fiction

    Strom writes his “Web Informant” blog about current trends in technology and Internet marketing. This appeared in the fall of 2006, and was originally published for the site TidBITS.com, a site geared towards Apple computer users. The article is updated for ArtofthePrank.com.

    The news in the fall of 2006 has me confused; so let me see if I have this straight. MTV is now doing a game where you can play as one of the characters from one of their reality TV shows, a show that employs script writers. These are different writers from the ones who not too long ago were protesting that they weren’t paid enough and had to falsify their time sheets to show that they worked fewer hours.

    Then there are people making money off of selling Second Life businesses that sell virtual goods to others inside their virtual world. Continue reading “The New Virtuality, and Truth is Stranger than Fiction”

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