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Join me, won’t you, as we blog twenty or so years into the future. By now, your children will have gleaned through your tenured, compulsive, writing and linking “achievement” and gotten to know you as the self-indulgent, if not self-delusional, practitioner of quasi-liberal and/or quasi-neo-conservative ranting that you find so annoying in others.

And although your plan for world domination, or at least the humble wish that people somehow “see things your way” hasn’t quite worked out as planned, you still think that visitors are interested—somehow uncontrollably drawn in—with what you have to say about the world. Well, while it may be true that [insertyourobscuredomainhere].com hasn’t gone on to change the world quite the way that you thought it would, here’s a look at some of the more well-known blogging pioneers of your time; those that have made a difference.

• Jason Kottke (The Elder) has married up and moved to Paris. There, he has been accepted as the U.S. ambassador for electronic communication, although they’ve decided to call it something much more elegant. His endless regales of toothbrush design fascinate the French populace to no end. He is considered an esteemed American second only to Jerry Lewis, whose bronze statue dwarfs the Eiffel tower.
• Jeffrey Zeldman, known to children from the age of five as The Godfather of Web Standards, has finished his second autobiography, written entirely in the third person. Chapter eight entitled The Lawrence Welk Years reveals the inside jokes behind both it and that curious Haiku experiment. While still very active on his Daily Report page, Jeffrey is still working on the ability to post comments.
• Lance Arthur has finally found love, although he’s had to move to France (a block away from Kottke) since Emperor Bush banned same sex marriages, along with term limits and that pesky Bill of Rights.
• K10K is back in fashion, yet again, since the boys (their apprenticing daughters, actually) acquired a top level domain that ends in .com. Also, by consistently recycling design trends from just two years ago (now widely considered to be 70 years in reverse Internet time), they’ve successfully maintained the site’s elitist design status.
• Tim O’Reilly continues his duties as CEO of Apple Computer, and has long since rid the world of proprietary software.

It could all happen. Nothin’ but love for ya, fellas.

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