Gawker 
May 26, 2006 4:15 PM
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As the Register's Andrew Orlowski flies back to England, it's time to check up on the other trolls of tech — the real journalists, fake journalists, and — ugh — bloggers.
| Big fish | Big catch | Last spotted | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Orlowski, The Register | Google, Wikipedia, and Microsoft | Accused of misquoting Google CEO Eric Schmidt for a "Google in crisis" story | Moving from San Fran to England |
| John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine | Mac users | Predicted Apple would adopt Windows. Boot Camp makes him half-right. | Co-hosting the TWiT podcast |
| Mark Pilgrim, Dive into Mark | Dave Winer | Invented the Winer Number abuse tracker and the Winer Watcher retraction tracker | Not on Winer's OPML |
| Chris Coulter, a million little mailing lists | Robert Scoble | Teamed up with Orlowski in 2002 to mock innocent Microsoft blogger Beth Goza | Rejected by an ad agency for being "overqualified and too aggressive" |
| Theo DP, more little mailing lists | Jeff Bezos, Tim O'Reilly | Baited the tech publishing overlord O'Reilly via Valleywag | Snickering at O'Reilly's Web 2.0 trademark |
| ConFonz, Valleywag correspondent | Lousy conferences | Outed gaming king Will Wright as a non-hand-washer | Wishing he was already at Gnomedex |
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