You thought we'd given up yet on the hunt for the author of Fake Steve Jobs, the spoof diary of the narcissistic Apple founder. Okay, so, despite exhaustive textual detective work, our first guess — that the writer behind the site was Leander Kahney of Wired.com — compltely missed the target. Embarrassing. But we have a new suspect in the ongoing investigation: John Paczkowski, former editor on Good Morning Silicon Valley, tech news site of the San Jose Mercury News.Paczkowski has the writing chops; he's a longtime Apple watcher; and he told me, when we tried last autumn to hire him for Valleywag, that he was working on a book, as is the author of Fake Steve Jobs. This would be the week for Paczkowski to be exposed: All Things Digital, the Wall Street Journal spinoff for which he works, is hosting the real Steve Jobs at its annual conference in Carlsbad. One troublemaking commenter on the spoof diary site wonders, not-so-innocently: "Is John Paczkowski going to be there?" [Any theories, evidence in favor, evidence against, in the comments, please.]
