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I'm curious to see how this turns out. I was under the impression that he burned his bridges with FSJ after his CNBC stunt:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jan/15/steve-...

Although, he did hint he would be back after Steve's recovery in this ARS interview:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/07/the-real-dan-lyons...

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His writings for Newsweek have been fairly uninspired. Especially compared to his skewering of the cultures at IBM and Yahoo as FSJ, most of his columns felt far too "safe". Not that I can criticize someone for dumping blogging to move to a well paid magazine gig, but it seemed crazy for Newsweek to hire someone like Lyons and then force him to write from a straitjacket.

The first few return posts have totally recaptured the voice, so hopefully FSJ finally has an outlet where he can write without tainting the Newsweek "brand".

He already had a paid magazine gig, he just changed it for another one.

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