I love to read Steve Gillmor’s posts – he has a unique way with words and it’s fun (OK sometimes frustrating) to decipher his messages. But I really wish he would look beyond his Silicon Valley-tinted glasses and mention/link to some new blood now and then. Take this extract from his latest post, referencing what he calls the “new content kids on the block”:
“Yes, it’s the Dog Days, where the print books glide toward the soft landing of the new fiscal year while laying off the last remnants of the Golden Age of tech journalism. Replacing the old print bands are the new groups: the Maliks, the PaidContents, the AlwaysOns, the Battelles, and the session players: Beattie, Zawodny, Mernit, Clavier, Obasanjo, Canter, the Monkchips. Greasing the skids are the SuperSessions: Robert Scoble and the Flying Berlind Brothers, Wave Diner and the OPMLs, Jonny Schwartz and the CIOs, and Sergey, Mills, Jobs, and Yang.”
The above names are all very worthy ones – and I count some of them as blog buddies (and employers in a couple of cases). But I’d like to add my own ‘Alternative bands’ to the mix – some Generation X and Y.
A few of my favourite “groups” include (in totally random Bloglines order) Phil Pearson, Charlie Wood, Anastasia Goodstein, Lilia Efimova, Andy Baio, The TechCrunch Crew, Charles Coxhead, Tim Yang, Dina Mehta, Alex Barnett, Josh Porter, Tom Coates, Janet Tokerud, Lucas Gonze… there are MANY more I want to mention (sorry, but this is my lunch hour and I gotta get going!).
My point is: there’s a whole world of music, er I mean blogging, talent. Don’t forget to give us a shout-out now and then Mr Steve “Casey Kasem” Gillmor. And that goes for the AlwaysOn Top 100, or whatever the name of that Billboard-like chart is.
Rock on everybody! 🙂 (rant over)
update: I didn’t have time to give my picks some rock n’ roll nicknames. That would be fun though – how about you suggest some in the comments? And of course please feel free to extend my (short and hurried) list of alt rockers…
update 2:Steve has updated his post, to include “MacManus’ Youngbloods” 🙂 I like the sound of that – maybe we’re the new Blogger Brat Pack! Now if I could only get Tony Perkins and Dave Sifry to include some of us Brat Packers in their Open Media 100… 😉
