Another one bites the dust. RIP JOAB 1.0
With the announcement that JOAB beloved Jeremy Wright stepped down at B5Media we are sad to report that good ol’fashioned Jack of All Blogs died in the same breath.
Back in the days JOAB was snark blog par excellence, mainly excelling in it’s offensive style. Ran and edited by a snark master who we rather prefer to ignare and totally blank nowadays, JOAB was feared and every problogger or A-lister in the ‘about blogging’ scene became the victim. But times have changed and all these bloggers have become a snorefest. With Jeremy’s change in position the last of the failbloggers has died and taken down Jack of All Blogs at the same time.
Before I dive in to an identity crisis after yesterday’s event, I would love to thank JOAB’s preferred victims.
Scrivs and Mike Rundle.
Jack of All Blogs indirect being a creation of Paul Scrivens and his Fine Fools network we have to thank Scrivs for good fun times and much laughter on New Year’s Day 2007. Never mind that Splashpress acquired the Wisdump less than half a year later.
Foot-in-the-mouth-blogger par excellence, Mike Rundle always was omni-present in JOAB comments, often trying to return how much JOAB would love to be a member of 9rules. Mike we love, you. If not for your witty comments, for your funny banter in the B5Media – 9rules war.
Sadly both Rundle and Scrivs have retired in boredom.
Matt Craven
Being a friend of the original JOAB editor, Matt Craven always was good sport and often first to comment on rumours, snark. Matt is a great personality and was an awesome Blog Herald owner/editor. Sadly he seems to have retired in to WoW. I wonder if he’s looking forward to have Twitter stations in WoW or the next Elder Scrolls.
Jeremy Wright
Main culprit of the death of JOAB1.0, Jeremy Wright was maybe our favourite commenter here at JOAB. Always the first one to hit out at Scrivs and Rundle, stirring the fire in the comments and making sure we had many a great day. Often we had more fun in the commentfire between Rundle/Scrivs, Craven and Wright.
Rumour goes that Wright used to send internal emails about JOAB entries to B5Media contributors and channel editors.
Wright now has become a member of the B5Media board. We think he should become a consultant of Splashpress Media as well… and ghost contributor to JOAB.
Matt Mullenweg
Matt, sadly you have never been enough on the JOAB radar, but we recognize that you have matured admirably over the last years and now even would not want to have you on our snark attack radar anymore. Please create some more controversy as we really do not want to start reading Om Malik’s snorefest.
Franky
Last but not least there’s Franky. Nowadays he is Assistant Editor in Chief at Splashpress Media. Ever since he started writing here at JOAB his aggressiveness has gone downhill as weeks passed. Once shit-stirrer par excellence he then took over Wisdump from his idol Scrivs and since then things have gone downhill to say the least. Rumour goes he even doesn’t believe in snark anymore. We bet he must have a LiveJournal blog now or writes on MySpace. Or maybe he works for LiveUniverse and maintains train-wreck BlogExplosion. Probably the blogger’s union deal has gone to his head.
RIP JOAB1.0
Dear Jack of All Blogs V1, it was an awesome ride and we certainly will miss you. Feelings are split, divided between ‘how can we revive the old snark and offense tradition’ and ‘This is it, I’m having an identity crisis’.
Thank you for all the fun we had… and stop whining now. Arrington and Riley are still posting! Get in there!
Photo credit: Mike Abundo.
Now that Jeremy has more free time on his hands, perhaps he can pursue his true passion: fanning flamewars.
Mike Abundo said this on July 28, 2009 8:03 pm
Those were the days huh? People were sensitive, content was shitty and the more enemies you made the more friends joined your cause. Now there are almost too many blogs for any close knit infighting to even happen.
JOAB will always hold a place in my rectum. Cheers guys.
Scrivs said this on July 29, 2009 12:35 am