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Know your crazy uncles

Keeping the usual gang of Gillmors straight takes a full team of analysts, what with Marc Canter in the mix. So thank the Valley gods that a journalist charted them out for Valleywag.

Marc Canter Dave Winer Steve Gillmor
Frequently misspelled as... Cantor Whiner Dan
Lifetime Achievement Founded Macromedia Defined third most popular version of RSS Gesturebank?
GestureBank?
Whatever
Tagline "Whooooooooo!" "Coooooooooooooool." "The publisher garners economic value from the vote, data to be sold to advertisers for use in extrapolating the relationship between..."
Don't Ask About "Open marriage" listing on Orkut Adam Curry Googlefight score against his kid brother
Nutty Profession Bizarre scheme to pay bloggers for advertorial. Bizarre belief he's neck and neck with The New York Times. Bizarre refusal to link to other blogs.
Destiny Will eventually make you his friendster. Will eventually make you his enemy. Will eventually make you sleepy.

Earlier: Canter, Gillmor, and Winer: the crazy uncles of new media [Valleywag]

2:23 PM on Fri May 19 2006
By Nick Douglas
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