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ReadWrite's Jon Mitchell says he is @NextTechBlog, and he is "not stopping."

@NextTechBlog is a funny Twitter parody of the most ridiculous aspects of tech blogging and it has been an understandable source of intrigue since it was created--just who the hell is behind all those dead-on tweets satirizing tech blogging's sometimes endless cycle of hype and silliness, anyway?

Spencer Chen attempted to determine the author's identity with some logical inferences based on thought process and tweeting style, but it turns out his guess, AllThingsD senior editor Mike Isaac, was probably wrong.

Not only will @NextTechBlog continue, Mr. Mitchell is doubling down:

How will it be different? I will call out bullshit specifically now, and I’ll link to it. Yes, ours. I made fun of us all the time.

— Jon Mitchell (@ablaze) November 16, 2012

In an exchange with a Twitter follower, Mr. Mitchell also admitted there were other contributors to the parody account, writing that he has "several fairly consistent DM contributors, including@CalebGarling."

Here are some of @NextTechBlog's greatest hits:

Top 9,999,999 Apps For Staying Focused

— NextTechBlog (@NextTechBlog) October 28, 2012

Why Yahoo! Should Hire Scott Forstall To Build A Facebook Phone For Microsoft

— NextTechBlog (@NextTechBlog) November 3, 2012

How To Discard Your Obsolete 6-Month-Old Apple Device

— NextTechBlog (@NextTechBlog) October 24, 2012

With just under 1,800 followers, @NextTechBlog is probably more fun for members of tech-related media than anyone else, but it's so funny and on-point we're glad to see Mr. Mitchell doesn't plan on using his big reveal as a preamble to shutting it down.

After all, as one tweeter noted, sometimes "we are all @NextTechBlog."

UPDATE: After @NextTechBlog tweaked our noses as only they could, we contacted Jon Mitchell to ask why he owned up to being @NextTechBlog now.

"I've been wanting to end the charade for a while, but I held out," Mr. Mitchell said in an email, "I outed myself to Mat Honan a couple weeks ago, and we talked about whether I should do it. He advised me to hold out, and I did, but today I thought I saw the peak. When Spencer Chen had the balls to actually blog about knowing who it was, and he picked someone totally wrong, who has repeatedly and publicly denied his involvement, it started one of those terrible tech blogger Friday Twitter circle jerks. I was so tired of seeing everyone distracted by this. More importantly, I was pretty sure it had reached the height of absurdity. It was never going to get any better than that. So I talked it over with Mat, and he said he'd be honored to do it in grand style."

"It felt great," Mr. Mitchell continued, "I'm totally relieved. People think it's going to cause me to be more self-conscious and stop being so brutal, but they obviously haven't talked to me about this stuff. The garbage encouraged by the economics of this business makes me so angry."

Here's Mat Honan's Reddit IAmA, in which he confirms @NextTechBlog's true identity.

Thank you, Stephen Colbert!

Around this time last year, Daily Intel got a hold of a leaked staff memo from Jesse Angelo, editor-in-chief of The Daily. The Arab Spring, or rather U.S. audience's interest in the Arab Spring was winding down a bit and Mr. Angelo wrote, rather flippantly, "Folks, Egypt is over - time for us to get focused on covering America." He followed that up with the laughable instruction to, "Find me something new, different, exclusive and awesome. Find me the oldest dog in America, or the richest man in South Dakota."

Well, now it appears some tech reporters in our fair city may be under the same pie-in-the-sky mandate. On A VC yesterday, Mr. Wilson shared an email from a "major media company," in search of a sexier story than the repetitive, pom-pom-waving fare:

I was just talking to my boss about New York's tech scene and the types of stories I should go after. He wants me to get a little personal like digging into how founders and investors are actually using all this money flowing into the city. But beyond the typical, there must be some stories that have gone unreported or overlooked. Like maybe there's a new Brookly [sic] luxury bulding where 10 startup founders all bought homes, or there's a restaurant that all the tech geeks in the city go to to close their deals. Or there is a tailor from France who makes all the suits for the city's tech entrepreneurs. I am not saying any of these are THE story, but it's just the type of story I would love to tell.

As was to be expected, Mr. Wilson, pater familias to New York's growing tech scene, did not take kindly to the explicit invitation to paint his kinfolk like the second-coming of the Wall Street fat cats with venture capital dollars lining their hand-tailored pockets and million-dollar penthouses. 

We'd like to offer our own empathetic word of advice to the unlucky reporter who just got put on blast. Dude, just because your editors want you to find these stories, which, duh, does not mean you should spell out their headline fantasies and then hit send. Better management's email gets leaked than yours, amiright?

BONUS VIDEO: Watch Stephen Colbert go to town to Uncle Rupert's idea of news: