Dear Steve Wishnack

the other day, someone found my blog by googling "president steven wishnack". and i'm not sure why, but i decided to see what else google had to say about me. i've googled me before-- everyone has-- but i hadn't recently.

"president steven wishnack" brought mostly what i had expected. this blog, my facebook, a few mentions of things i'd done in the past...

and it brought you-- the president of think & do-- steve wishnack.

steve wishnack: center

i remember when i was seventeen, i'd discovered that you existed and i called you up to debate about who was better at being steven wishnack and who should have to change their name. i asked you about whether or not you had only one mattress on your bed because i had two. and then you hung up.

i'd even written a documentary called steven wishnack vs. steven wishnack in which i planned to prove you were not as good at steven wishnacking as i was. i managed to woo the thomas kinkade gallery into allowing me to film at their elegant location. but like many projects i had when i was seventeen, it was never started completed.

i'd mostly forgotten about all of that till googling myself. and when i found that the majority the internet's findings were me and not you, i started to wonder if that ever irritated you. that the same punk kid who prank called you nearly ten years ago is now just as immature but higher ranked online.

even if you search "steven wishnack" without "president" i am still much more apparent than you. and, believe me, this letter/blog post is going to make me rank even higher.

i wonder if that ever affects your business-- even on a comical level.

anyway, i am not writing to you to remind you that i'm a better steven wishnack, but rather to inform you of something else i discovered via google and our name.

in descending order, our full name brings my internet movie database profile, then gather.com, then my actual blog, and then your company website.

i'm surprised my one movie credit landed me on imdb.com, but that's beside the point.

what gets me-- and should get you-- is that i deleted my account from gather.com. i deleted it for several reasons:

1. the site tried to combine blogging with social networking and mostly sucked.
2. if you googled our name, gather.com would show up before anything else either of us had created.

but there it was: second on the list of steven wishnack findings.


and you may notice gather's title being "group or member unavailable" due to the deletion of my account. but what you may not notice is that gather.com has decided, for reasons beyond me, that if our name will no longer lead visitors to my writings they will instead lead everyone to david amber's "obamasucks.gather.com".

i don't think obama sucks. and i don't like my name being associated with someone who does. i mean, i don't think he's the most amazing man in the world and i don't think his being elected has magically Changed america-- i would never own a blog called obamarules.gather.com-- but i still dislike the advertisement david ambers' obamasucks blog is getting from our name.

i've written to gather.com, expressing i'd like them to fix the problem and now i'm writing to you for help. one steven wishnack to another, i ask you to send gather a letter, too.

unless you hate obama, in which case i guess fair is fair.

but if you're like me-- and i think you may be-- give me a hand here. let's unite as a duo of steven wishnacks and remove obamasucks from the list of things relevant to you and i. i need your help on this one: you're a ceo. i'm just a drunk who googles himself.

this can be steven wishnack and steven wishnack versus david ambers. david ambers who is self-described as "The Man", "Educated", and "Loveful"; david ambers who has zero blog posts and can't wait for the winter to come and his allergies to go.

let's take him down.

steven wishnackingly,
president wishnack

p.s. i still think my description is better than yours. the legend, the rumor, the menace... rather than 25 year career as an educator, trainer and business consultant.