It’s kind of funny how this guy — like so many bloggers — just kind of breezed in and rattled the cages of both piss-taking tech journos and high profile tech moguls. And his dealings with Forbes should be taught in journo school: during the day he was asking his editors for a long overdue raise and promotion (which he was denied), at night those same editors were courting the still-anonymous FSJ over email. Dan does seem to get that FSJ has a half-life, though. Forbes has a year deal with the blog, but it didn’t sound like he’d want to carry on with it forever — which is probably for the best (although I know a lot of people hope he will). Sometimes you need to end things before it’s over, you know?

Me? Some self-inflated part of me likes to think I gave Fake Steve his big break (and started the whole stupid “Real whatever with Fake Steve” meme — here, here, here, and here, and so on). But let’s face it, the wit and humor that hooked all the early-reading tech insiders was pretty irrepressible, and classic satire needs no help.