Okay, I’ve only once directly posted about Strumpette. Yeah, I’ve included the Strumpette site a few times, but have really stayed away from Strumpette on my blog.
Before I go on, let me say for the record that, early on, the strumpette blog focused on attacks and I think offered very little value. However, of late, the author(s) is(are) bringing up some good points and posts worth reading. And, if I had to commit, I’d say there is more than one author. Now, back to my post . . . .
However, after a few e-mail exchanges with “Amanda Chapel” in the past couple or so weeks, I got to thinking: I haven’t really heard of or read many Brian Connolly comments on any blogs lately? Have there been any??
I checked, and found none since early March.
What I did find was further evidence from Ron May that Brian Connolly is much more behind the Strumpette blog than either AC or BC wants to tell us.
“I think it is time we stop being fooled and step back. Connolly is coming out. Connolly is stepping out from behind the curtain because he has had his fun, he has successfully fooled everyone, and now, he is tired of it since there is nothing left to prove.
So, as far as I am concerned, Connolly is Amanda or at least a significant part of the Amanda project.”
May makes several good points and comparisons in his post — too many for me to repeat here.
In case you are new to the blogosphere and wondering who is Amanda Chapel? What is strumpette.com? Who is Brian Connolly? Why should I care? (Actually, no. You shouldn’t care, and I don’t really. But, its can fun.). For some history, see:
> Strumpette’s very first post.
> Scott Baradell’s Media Orchard: Here and here. (That last here also includes reference to Ron May and The May Report.)
> Robert French’s InfOpinions, and a comment I posted.
> Mike Krempasky of Krempasky.com.
At the end of it all, it doesn’t really matter who author(s) strumpette.com. What matters more — or at least as much as who the author(s) is(are) — is the content: Is it worth reading?
That’s for you to decide. (And, as AC/BC has said in the past, the site does get plenty of traffic.)
– Mike
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Thanks Mike — good stuff.
I think it’s interesting that Ron says Brian has “fooled everyone,” when fingers were pointed at him as being Strumpette virtually from Day One. Sometimes maybe people just want to be fooled.
I think you have a good point, Scott. Though, unless you are doing PR day-to-day (Ron May focuses more on the tech scene in Chicago, I think), the BC-AC link can be new.
It’s similar to the Kurtz column, and others who have commented about the Strumpette blog since then. Strumpette isn’t that new and definitely not the person in the photos on the site.
Oh well, guess you can only dig so far on a subject if you haven’t been there since Day 1.
Mike
Interesting to me that you were not visited by Brian himself, looks like he keeps a very close eye on what is being said about his blog (interesting because he speaks his satirists mind about everyone else)… I posted about strumpette and was ultimately CALLED via telephone and wrote back via email.