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Post number 14511

rcade — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 07:11:55 -0800

In what can only be described as top-notch hit-whoring, Shift magazine has compiled a list of the Web's 25 most interesting personalities. Let the thinly veiled resentment commence.

By: Hankins

Hankins — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 07:32:17 -0800

Mahir is still on there? Maybe he's listed because he's gone the route of creating a personal site -- is that all it takes to bridge the gap between interesting meme and interesting personality? This entire list reads like it was created a year or two ago. I'm not knocking the people listed, but have no torches been passed? Wil Wheaton is a good addition to the staple 1337 e-suite, but Shawn Fanning? Napster? Why not add Marc Andreessen to the pot (sarcasm)?

By: wfrgms

wfrgms — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 07:52:39 -0800

You know - I try reading Fark.com - and it seems like I used to really like it - but lately it's just so painfully irreverent and sophomoric that I can barely stomach it. What bugs me the most has been the idiotic shift to making sarcastic headlines for mediocre news links. It seems like Fark didn't used to be so farked up! Even the photoshops have been lack luster... and honestly what exactly does Drew Curtis *DO* for Fark? I mean - I never read any blistering or witty commentary for him. And I've seen him on TechTV's screen savers a few times and he's never really said or reported anything interesting or amazing. So I guess just being an average, beer swilling joe with a weblog and thousands of daily submissions from net-losers makes you an "interesting personality". Perhaps I'm just burned out on it.

By: ratbastard

ratbastard — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 07:58:53 -0800

True, Mahir's pretty crusty by now. But at least they didn't mention Jennicam.

By: Skot

Skot — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 08:03:14 -0800

I am going to feverishly sex up CmdrTaco, and you will all be jealous, because if you are going to sex up a famous Commander, he should be a Commander of Tacos. A sexy Commander of Tacos. Unless it stands for "Commodore," in which case, like countless AOL users, I will have been sexing up the wrong person entirely. God damn the internet. Maybe I should just try and save the headaches and bag Tiffany Shlain instead. Or perhaps Rogers Cadenhead. There's something about that name. Look, never mind. Who wants to fuck? I'll link you! Just as soon as I get a website.

By: TiggleTaggleTiger

TiggleTaggleTiger — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 08:04:44 -0800

And what's with that Matt Haughey guy? I mean, c'mon, he sounds like a big loser. "Metafilter" - what kind of a dumb name for a website is that? Jesus.

Joke, ha ha.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 08:19:19 -0800

Jeez. If I asked you what Matt Haughey, Mr. T and Hunter S. Thompson had in common, I don't think you could give me an answer.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 08:58:59 -0800

"low key community?" Did this guy visit the same Metafilter I'm at?

By: maura

maura — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 09:36:46 -0800

boys, boys, boys, boys, boys, oh, and a woman, but only because she's linked to a boy, blah, blah blah. i remember when shift used to write interesting, provocative pieces - a list is not a piece - about net culture. do you?

By: evanizer

evanizer — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 09:52:58 -0800

I'm sorry, but I think Wil Wheaton is a weenie. And Harry Knowles? shudder That website.... that horrible website... And isn't Meg worth a mention without Kottke? Not that Kottke's bad or nothin', but...

By: rcade

rcade — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:11:25 -0800

Maura: The last site I read regularly for interesting stories on Net culture was Netly News. Sigh.

By: KLAX

KLAX — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:25:50 -0800

"Because whenever [Matt] enters a thread, it's like God has deigned to speak." What's the sound of 13,414 MetaFilterians retching?

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:38:55 -0800

How could they forget Ben Schummin?

By: D

Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:40:26 -0800

Lists, lists, lists at shift. Always with the lists. This one feels more than a little recycled. Really, Mahir should not be on there anymore -- I thought the Peter Pan guy replaced him years ago.

By: Danelope

Danelope — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:35:14 -0800

To be honest, I find none of the "personalities" named on the "Top 25 Web Personalities" list very interesting. Their site content may be interesting (AICN, Drudge, Metafilter) or they may have (often seemingly-unwarranted) leagues of fans (Kottke-Meg, Wil Wheaton) but none of them are particularly "interesting"*. Not any longer, especially in the case of tired old jokes like Mahir and Mr. T. And particularly not when they acknowledge the fact that they are shameless self-promoters and their work online is pap. (SEE ALSO: Tiffany Shlain) Looks like the Internet ate Shift's balls... * The opinions expressed herein are solely those of Danelope and do not reflect that of the entire population of Earth.

By: darukaru

darukaru — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 13:52:13 -0800

Jon. Fucking. Katz. On the list. OMG. WTF. BBQ. Where is Kibo? I mean, if you're going to dredge up the dusty grave of comedy for Mahir, you should at least give Kibo an honorable mention for being the original Internet personality.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:18:00 -0800

OMG. WTF. BBQ. I want that on a teeshirt. Put it on the list.

By: skinsuit

skinsuit — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 18:12:01 -0800

No one listed the Stile Project!

By: rich

rich — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:45:11 -0800

How could they ignore Ben Brown? How much personality do you need? And, of course, I'm bristling over my own exclusion from the list, but maybe I should update more often than once a week.