Blogger impersonation rampant
Last week I dreamt of one day inspiring a Fake Allen Pike blog. Hours later, my dream became reality:
It’s exciting to see what people will do with access to some of Google’s thick-client Javascript tools.
I was briefly suspicious that the above was copy-pasted from Antipode, but it is actually clever fakery. Not nearly as sarcastic as the Friedisms site was, but still fun. I was unprepared for what struck next - Fake Fake Allen Pike:
GLARGLE BLARG THICK CLIENTS GLOO BLOOP
Sarcastic, demented, and more or less how my writing looks before I edit it. Meanwhile, the real Curtis Lassam discovered he had an impersonator as well:
I’d accuse him of being the fake, but his site is… well, better at being me than I am. So I suspect that I am likely the fake.
Can anybody discern the identities behind these impostors? It’s tough when the fake writers are more convincing when the real ones.
Nov 10 2009
1:34 am
That’s… an excellent choice of image to go with this article.
Nov 10 2009
1:39 am
Thank you. I try not to use generically stock or otherwise uninspired post images. Not mentioning any names of Ars Technica.
Nov 10 2009
1:58 am
Wait I’m confused now. Who am I?
Nov 10 2009
3:23 am
You’re a meatball on my plate of spaghetti! I shall dip my garlic toast in your succulent juices!
Nov 10 2009
8:58 am
That’s really funny!
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Be careful though, Fake Steve Jobs has a much more popular blog than Steve Jobs does :)
Nov 10 2009
10:04 am
I now have all of the assorted fakes saved in my Google Reader.
I’m hoping for more Real Curtis Lassam.
Nov 10 2009
11:35 am
Boris: He has a more popular blog, but recently it’s sort of just turned into generic tech news. It was better when it was sarcastic and irreverent.
Nov 10 2009
1:45 pm
Fake Steve Jobs was better before we all found out what the guy’s agenda was. Back when we could pretend he was picking stories how the Fake Steve Jobs character would, rather than particular axes to grind.
As an aside, the “showing nerds a rectangle” photo is hillarious, but I think I would have captioned it “Explaining the square-corner CSS attribute.”
Nov 11 2009
9:49 am
Ha!
I have to say that the intro to Guy Kawasaki’s book by Fake Steve Jobs was golden sarcasm, a beautiful work of art. It made me laugh so hard that liquids came out of my nose (and not in the good way). Maybe FAKE ALLEN will write the intro to my first boorish book …