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The rise of the fakes
It didn't take long for the copycats to grab on to the concept behind the Fake Steve Jobs blog.
These days we have a Fake Larry Ellison Blog, a Fake Jonathan Schwartz Blog, and of course Fake Steve Ballmer and Fake Bill Gates blogs.
The Steve Jobs blog works because it's witty. The writer crawled into the Apple executive's character and pretends to view the world through his eyes. Reading the blog is like listening to a well done Steve Jobs impersonation by a comedian.
None of the other "fake" blogs come close. But when presented with the opportunity to copy, why not have a go at it.
There are still several executives available for a fake blog. In the
tech industry alone, there are opportunities for Paul Otellini, Hector
Ruiz and John Chambers impersonators, as well as the Google boys: Larry
Page, Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin (although he does have a fake home page).
Outside the world of geeks, you'd be surprised that Donald Trump still is a Greenfield opportunity. You'd figure that the camera hungry entrepreneur would have set up a fake blog himself at least.
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There's a great fake Al Gore blog on myspace, that is hilarious. Every insane posting ends with "Al gore is a good man," and then gives the Al Gore 08 web site, where they're trying to draft him as a web address. What was funny about this fake blog was the number of real politicians putting it at the top of their friend lists. Gotta love it.
Posted by: Samuel Moshe | August 31, 2007 9:05 AM