Know your crazy uncles
Keeping the usual gang of Gillmors straight takes a full team of analysts, what with Marc Canter in the mix. So thank the Valley gods that a journalist charted them out for Valleywag.
Marc Canter | Dave Winer | Steve Gillmor | |
---|---|---|---|
Frequently misspelled as... | Cantor | Whiner | Dan |
Lifetime Achievement | Founded Macromedia | Defined third most popular version of RSS | Gesturebank? GestureBank? Whatever |
Tagline | "Whooooooooo!" | "Coooooooooooooool." | "The publisher garners economic value from the vote, data to be sold to advertisers for use in extrapolating the relationship between..." |
Don't Ask About | "Open marriage" listing on Orkut | Adam Curry | Googlefight score against his kid brother |
Nutty Profession | Bizarre scheme to pay bloggers for advertorial. | Bizarre belief he's neck and neck with The New York Times. | Bizarre refusal to link to other blogs. |
Destiny | Will eventually make you his friendster. | Will eventually make you his enemy. | Will eventually make you sleepy. |
Earlier: Canter, Gillmor, and Winer: the crazy uncles of new media [Valleywag]