I spend a lot of time traversing the interwebs, and on occasion I come across a piece of blogging history that is so amusing that I am forced to share it. In this case, I came across a post by Antiblog from all the way back in 2003 satirizing the “A-List”. Most of the names are at least familiar, some of them may have lost their time in the spot-light, all of the descriptions rate somewhere between amusing and gut-splitting.

A Few Samples

Here are a few samples for your reading pleasure, I highly suggest that you take a look at the entire article here.

Dave Winer

“…I am the Internet, doncha know that? I made it what it was. I invented Blogs. And my markup spec’s are the all. Scripting and DaveNet was everything, I was ahead of the game. And when you all were still in diapers, I was (and still am) the world…”

Robert Scoble

“…Link to other friends. Link to these friends. Link to more friends. Link to my boss, he’s way way cool. Hey, didyah know, I used to work for Radio Userland. And I used to plan Tech Conferences, I know every Geek in the world! They all like me. Link to other friends. Link to Microsoft developers. NEC Tablet PC rocks…”

Esther Dyson

“…Release. Spew. Discovering the obvious and promoting the impossible. New Age Tech Cult of the Month. Whoa this Blogger meme here. How did I miss this? Thanks to the O’Reilly Emerging Tech Conference, for turning me onto this. Whoa…”

Chris Pirillo

“…I am here now, Your Super Geek at work. Come to my Conference. Link Link. Link to this this cool computer magazine I am in, you can subscribe too, pretty please. Link to Gretchen. Amusing private story about Gretchen. I am the real Geek. Supreme Geek of All. Come to my conference. Its everything….”

Web 2.0 Roundup

Even though I believe satire is the sincerest form of flattery, I don’t think it’s fair that I should poke fun at anyone without similarly making fun of myself, so in the style that Antiblog coined for this article I present myself.

Steve Spalding

I like meme’s and social media and all things Web 2.0. I predict the future. No, I know the future! Semantic web, memeplex, googleplex, simplex? I am the king of social media, or at least I’m everywhere in it. I love digg and I hate digg. Or maybe I hate loving digg?

Comment on my blog, start a conversation! I like building communities. Semanic web, memeplex, googleplex, simplex oh my! Web 2.0, Web 3.0, heck I coined Web 9.0 and I am 1.0 away from having Web 10.0. Come to my conference! I took a blogging break to work on a super secret project, but now I’m back. Link to me, talk to me, blog at me, be sure to sign up for the RSS! Semantic web, memeplex, googleplex, simplex…

I guess if there is anything that we can learn from this is that no matter how things change they always stay the same. The blogosphere has evolved as a medium, but at the end of the day it is just another cross-stitched patch of the great human drama. I wonder what Antiblog would have to say about some of the new crop of “A-listers” like Mr. Arrington, Nick Denton or Pete Cashmore.

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