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Forbes magazine has named its Top 25 Celebs of the Web. They defined the "web celeb" as a "person famous primarily for creating or appearing in Internet-based content, and for being highly recognizable to a Web-based audience. That definition excludes people who were significantly famous before they hit the Web–like author Arianna Huffington, billionaire Mark Cuban or journalist Michelle Malkin–and leaves us with a pool of people whose fame depends on the Internet."
The web celebrity list is presented in pictures on the Forbes site and includes:
Top 25 Web Celebrities List
Seeded on Sat Feb 3, 2007 3:29 PM EST
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I'd cross a few off that list and add the following as replacements:
Dave Sifry [Technorati]; Ev Williams [Pyra (with Meg Hourihan), Blogger, Odeo, Twitter]; Anil Dash [Six Apart, Movable Type, TypePad, Vox, TypeKey, LiveJournal]; Clay Shirky [for his writings about the Internet, power law, the long tail, and new media]; Rebecca Blood [author of The Weblog Handbook]; Noah Grey [creator of Greymatter blogging software, photographer]; Mark Pilgrim [Dive into... Mark / Accessibility / Python, web accessibility]; John Perry Barlow [founder of the EFF, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, activist, lyricist for the Grateful Dead]; Larry Page and Sergey Brin [Google]...
I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting, and this doesn't even touch on virtual reality (which is also a part of the Web).
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#1 - Sat Feb 3, 2007 6:40 PM ESTUmm guys, aren't we forgetting someone ;-)?
I was a little surprised that the Google Guys weren't there.
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#3 - Fri Feb 9, 2007 5:06 PM ESTTrue. Actually, it points to a much bigger problem among the "mainstream media"... the fact that they don't really know enough about the Web to be making Top Ten lists. Perhaps they should have asked the people who do know... the "You" that was recognized by TIME as Person of the Year.
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