So far the foolers are being foolish |
I’m down for a good April Fool’s joke but so far what I’ve seen has been unconvincing. Scoble and Zawodny moving to Google? Please. Matt Cutts from Google moving to Yahoo? Yawn. The Register reporting China buys Google? I’m glad I unsubbed them last week, they suck even when they are serious.
Surely there is more creativity than this? The pink Slashdot motiff and Blogoscope’s Google Room thing complete with Playboy at least drew a grin.
A good fool means something deceptive and fuzzy, not something obviously bogus. And if you are wondering what I’m up to? The answer is nothing. I’m armchair quarterbacking this whole thing. Grandstander, guilty as charged, I’m not trying anything on any of our sites (yet). Better to do something really shocking than to do something lame. If one can’t come up with something good — and that’s where I’m at — I’ll just cast stones into the pond and take up the critic role.
With that said, I’m totally expecting to be fooled by something today. Not so far though. You?
Update 4/5/2006 7:17am PST: Here’s a list of April Fool’s 2006 jokes played out by domain.
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It’s been pretty lame so far. I think it’s because people don’t want their readers to go into shock. Truthfully, the only good ones imho has always been things like ThinkGeek. It’s amusing, they’ve always done it, and you know it’s coming. News sources, and tech blogs should quit with the whole humor thing (1) because people depend on them for news and (2) they have really stupid AF posts. I mean come on, the whole job switches? After they claim the whole year how they love their jobs? I’d be more likely to believe that Scoble was doing kinky amateur porn with some of those shots from Naked Conversations photoshopped in. Slashdot is doing the whole kiddy CAPS thing we were talking about before.
It takes a genius to come up with a good joke, etc. Too bad my chemistry professor in college isn’t around. He was good at it, but he was also part of Hackers at MIT. And they’re good with jokes year-around.
I think I’ll join you in armchair quarterbacking. Can I be your backup? haha.
Comment by darkmoon — April 1, 2006 @ 12:30 pm PST
Google Romance is alright, I guess. You agree to allowing contextual advertising throughout your romantic evening
And sure, darkmoon, you can be the backup QB.
Comment by TDavid — April 1, 2006 @ 1:05 pm PST
I agree, the silly stuff might be funny, but the point of April Fools is supposed to be to fool people. Next year, I think I’ll have to jump in with some sort of elaborate hoax.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg — April 2, 2006 @ 1:32 am PST
The whole April’s fools thing sure was a lame attempt by lots of people.
In fairness, Scoble probably is in a no-win situation. If he blogs about anything which could accidentally be taken seriously, he could step on a lot of toes. There are corporate readers out there who can’t take a joke, even on April 1st.
Comment by Gary Wisniewski — April 2, 2006 @ 5:12 am PST
Good point Gary. Nathan, maybe we should put our heads together and team up on something next year. I bet we could do at least as good as what I saw yesterday. I expected to be fooled but it just never happened.
Comment by TDavid — April 2, 2006 @ 11:35 am PST
I thought this was creative - RIAA + MPAA = MAFIAA:
http://mafiaa.org/
Comment by trex — April 2, 2006 @ 5:30 pm PST
Hehe, that is pretty good, trex, thanks for sharing.
Comment by TDavid — April 2, 2006 @ 6:00 pm PST
Here’s our news for 1 April…
Comment by Liam @ Web 2.5 Blog — April 2, 2006 @ 6:32 pm PST
Your news for April 1st on April 2nd, Liam?
Comment by TDavid — April 2, 2006 @ 6:37 pm PST
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