All the good ones get abducted by the Apple mothership

It has hap­pened twice recently. Two of my favorite web-designers/information-gurus/entertaining-bloggers have been hired by Apple, and after that… noth­ing. They announce that they have been hired, and then their blogs go silent. Occa­sion­ally they will have a post about their pup­pies, or a new hair­cut, but noth­ing even remotely related to web design, infor­ma­tion design, or stuff I used to rely on them for.

Any­one else noticed this? Who will be next? Here are the two who have most recently been ripped from my feed list:

> [Paul Nixon](http://www.nixlog.com/about/) < abducted on [March 22, 2005](http://www.nixlog.com/archives/2005/03/22_a_new_job.php)
> [Dun­stan Orchard](http://www.1976design.com/blog/colophon/) < abducted on [Novem­ber 29, 2004](http://www.1976design.com/blog/archive/2004/11/29/a-new-job/)

At least Apple is get­ting good people.