The "Fake" Blog Explosion

For a year and a half, the blog Fake Steve Jobs was a runaway hit. One, because it was a entertaining parody and, two, because of the mystery surrounding the blog trying to determine who the "real" Fake Steve Jobs was. It was so popular that, once the identity was revealed last August, that even the New York Times announced that the mystery of the wrote an article about it.

That article must have introduced the blog to a lot of people because shortly after the article(and probably many many others) were printed, a whole slew of copy cats flooded the internet. Almost all of these hard working copy cats lasted only a few months until the blog ended or was abandoned. Now come on, If you're going to be a copy cat, at least put some work into it. If you want somebody to spend time reading your writing, you should be either original or spend a lot of time working on. Most of these copycats did neither.

The Secret Diary of Jonathan Schwartz:
This was a darn near exact copy of the Fake Steve Jobs blog. The title was the same, The Blogger template that was used was the same, only the widgets were slightly different. It started in August - right after the New York Times Article was printed. It limped all the way to November before being abandoned.

The Secret Diary of Brad Stone:
This hard working mocker of the guy who outed Fake Steve Jobs, lasted only 4 days past a month and only 13 posts.

The Secret Diary of Hillary Clinton:
It's amazing how politics can bring the best out of people... Luckily it doesn't bring out hard work so we don't have to endure them for long. Like so many of these "Fake" blogs, it came in with a lot of posts at first and then limped on until it was abandoned a few months later.

The Secret Diary of D.A. Carson:
It's amazing how religion can bring out the best in people... This very original blog copied the title and template of Fake Steve Jobs. It started right after the New York Times article. This hard working sinner only lasted 2 months.

The Secret Diary of Greg Swann:
Here's an esoteric diary that only our Australian friends would probably get the jokes. Thankfully for the rest of us, we aren't missing much. This fickle Aussie blogged for a grand total of 7 days.

As you can tell, I really don't like unoriginal, lazy, copy cats. To get a glowing review from me you don't need to do much. You only need to do one of two things. Be original\different, or show some work ethic. I will never mock anyone who works his\her butt off, or for trying something new.

As far as "Fake" blogs go, I will continue to link to ones that are active. Also, if you're thinking of doing one yourself, please, don't make it exactly like Fake Steve Jobs right down to the template and description. There is plenty of ways to be original in your "Fake" blog. Also, if you're shooting for the same popularity as Fake Steve Jobs, take note that he had over 1700 posts in 2007. In other words, you're probably going to have to type your fingers to the bone.