---
title: "I am Jessica Alba"
date: 2005-10-18
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# I am Jessica Alba

Ben Barren’s posts just keep getting better and better. Today he ponders the question: [What Connects Richard MacManus + Jessica Alba?](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508061102/http://benbarren.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-connects-richard-mcmanus-jessica.html). He writes:

> “we may need a “Post-Valley Intervention” – Since The Father of Web 2.0 has left The Valley he has gone stir crazy. He was last seen walking around the set of Lord of the Rings – Prequel to the Fifth Sequel, posting on a Treo 700 he’d bought on ebay qwertying –[“what happens if Romanian birds eat the Web 2.0 worms?”](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508061102/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002896.php).”

Heh! 🙂 I have to admit, I have gone a bit stir crazy since leaving the valley… I do love being back in New Zealand though and being with my family.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/i_am_jessica_al.php))*