From Forbes:
The ranks of the world’s celebrities used to be dominated by millionaire actors, athletes and musicians, but the Internet has leveled the playing field. A kid with a video camera has access to as large an audience as the biggest Hollywood star. A mom with a blog can attract more readers than a best-selling author. And an opinionated entrepreneur can become a guru to millions.
The Forbes.com Web Celeb 25 is a list of the biggest, brightest and most influential people on the Internet. From bloggers to podcasters to YouTube stars, these are the people who are creating the digital world from the bottom up.
Here’s Forbes list of the Top 25:
- Jessica Lee Rose — YouTube personality
- Perez Hilton — Blogger (celebrity gossip)
- Markos Moulitsas Zúniga — Blogger (politics, liberal)
- Matt Drudge — News digest
- Seth Godin — Recommendation network
- Jeff Jarvis — Blogger (politics, conservative)
- Glenn Reynolds — Blogger (politics, conservative-leaning libertarian)
- Amanda Congdon — Video-blogger
- Robert Scoble — Blogger (technology, politics)
- Michael Arrington — Blogger (Silicon Valley, technology)
- Hosea Frank — Video-blogger
- Jimmy Wales — Founder of Wikipedia (online, user-maintained encyclopedia)
- Harry Knowles — Movie critic from Austin, TX
- Frank Warren — Founder of PostSecret
- Cory Doctorow — Blogger, journalist and science fiction author
- Xeni Jardin — Journalist and blogger (both Doctorow and Jardin are most famous for being the co-authors of Boing Boing)
- Leo Laporte — Podcaster
- Merlin Mann — Blogger (creator and editor of 43 Folders)
- John H. Hinderaker — Blogger (politics, conservative)
- Charles Johnson — Blogger (politics, conservative)
- Kevin Sites — war correspondent
- Mark Lisanti — Blogger (entertainment)
- Jason Calacanis — Entrepreneur
- Om Malik — Blogger (technology)
- Violet Blue — Sex educator
Without looking at their respective “claims to fame”, I only knew who 10 of the top 25 are (numbers 2–8, 13, 19, and 20). After seeing what each was famous for, I still didn’t know who 11 of them were.
I am surprised that Tom Anderson didn’t make the list (and high up on the list at that). Tom Anderson is co-founder and president of the social networking site MySpace. But he’s better known as everyone’s “friend”–new users to the site automatically are granted Tom as their first contact on the network.
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