{"id":279,"date":"2007-04-01T00:57:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T04:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2007-11-18T03:50:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T07:50:28","slug":"whos-famous-right-now-a-cheat-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2007\/whos-famous-right-now-a-cheat-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Famous Right Now? (a cheat sheet)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Experiment…<\/strong>
\nPeople throw around a lot of names at conferences; sometimes you recognize them, sometimes you don’t. I went into my week at SXSWi 2007<\/a> with a mission: to write down every name that was dropped on me (see my pre-trip mission statement, Namedropping 2.0<\/a>, for the back story and the rules).<\/p>\n

The end result, in theory, would be a list of everyone who is Internet Famous in my spheres of interest as of SXSWi 2007. This is, of course, an oversimplification, an overdramatization, and a gross generalization, but hey, let’s look at the list anyway.<\/p>\n

The Disclaimer…<\/strong>
\nThis project was truly impossible<\/strong> and this list is incomplete. For many, many reasons I know I’ve left off significant people whose names were dropped at the conference. It’s really not on purpose — I just couldn’t keep up. So I invite you now to review the list and comment below with your own additions to it. Who is Internet Famous to you?<\/em><\/p>\n

The Results…<\/strong>
\n
\nJay Allen<\/a> – Product Manager for Movable Type<\/a> and blogosphere expert.<\/p>\n

Heather Armstrong<\/a> – Personal blogging pioneer.<\/p>\n

Michael Arrington<\/a> – aka Techcrunch. Internet company profiler.<\/p>\n

Scott Beale<\/a> – Aka Laughing Squid. Tech event photographer and blogger.<\/p>\n

Yochai Benkler<\/a> – Yale Law Professor and open-source\/blogosphere commentator. Coined the term “commons based peer production<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

danah boyd<\/a> – Social media researcher and blogger (see also: my personal idol and hero).<\/p>\n

Susie Bright<\/a> – Sex blogger and well-published writer and editor.<\/p>\n

Jason Calacanis<\/a> – Tech entrepreneur blogger.<\/p>\n

Emily Chang<\/a> – Strategic interactive designer and editor of eHub<\/a> — a database of Web 2.0 tools.<\/p>\n

Frank Chu<\/a> – A guy who lives in San Francisco and walks around with gibberish protesting signs and has an entire bar named after him. (Okay, this one’s totally random, but I swear someone mentioned him!)<\/p>\n

Shannon Clark<\/a> – Tech\/food blogger and entrepreneur (newest venture: NELA<\/a>: Never Eat Lunch Alone — still in early beta).<\/p>\n

Amanda Congdon<\/a> – Actress and videoblogger.<\/p>\n

Anil Dash<\/a> – Tech blogger and vice president of Six Apart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Grace Davis<\/a> – Mommyblogger with an attitude and a following.<\/p>\n

Nick Douglas<\/a> – Video blogger and Valleywag<\/a> gossiper.<\/p>\n

Caterina Fake<\/a> – Writer and co-founder of Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ze Frank<\/a> – Online performance artist and blogger.<\/p>\n

Seth Godin<\/a> – Marketing blogger (I love him) and founder of Squidoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yoz Grahame<\/a> – Founder of<\/strike> Developer Advocate at Ning<\/a> and tech blogger. (edit: <\/strong>woops. my bad.)<\/p>\n

Liz Henry<\/a> – Personal and social tech blogger.<\/p>\n

Joi Ito<\/a> – Internet activist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist with at least some responsibility for just about everything that is good on the web, including Creative Commons<\/a>, Technorati<\/a>, the Open Source Initiative<\/a>, and Mozilla<\/a> (bow down before the master!).<\/p>\n

Min Jung Kim<\/a> – Blogger, Web 2.0 marketer, intratechconference trendsetter<\/p>\n

Dan Kennedy<\/a> – Marketing strategy guru.<\/p>\n

Nicole Lee<\/a> – Technology writer at CNET<\/a> and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Om Malik<\/a> – Tech analyst blogger.<\/p>\n

Ross Mayfield<\/a> – CEO and co-founder of SocialText<\/a> — the first wiki company.<\/p>\n

Mary Anne Mohanraj<\/a> – Published sex writer and founder of Clean Sheets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Ninja<\/a> – The guy with the answers.<\/p>\n

Annalee Newitz<\/a> – Tech blogger and contributing editor for Wired<\/a> magazine.<\/p>\n

Chris Pirillo<\/a> – Tech entrepreneur, blogger, and media personality.<\/p>\n

Robert Scoble<\/a> – Tech geek blogger (and also by far the most frequently dropped name at the conference).<\/p>\n

Kathy Sierra<\/a> – Speaker, user advocate, and lifelong student of the how the brain works. (Also, at the time of this writing, the victim of a major scandal involving anonymous death threats<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Jason Schultz<\/a> – Law blogger and staff attorney at EFF<\/a> — a resource for the protection of legal rights in the digital world.<\/p>\n

Richard Stallman<\/a> – Free software activist (“Free as in Freedom”), Founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation.<\/p>\n

Bruce Sterling<\/a> – Science fiction author and tech opinionist. (is opinionist<\/em> a word? if not, i think Bruce Sterling necessitates its coinage.)<\/p>\n

Lisa Stone<\/a> – Co-founder of BlogHer<\/a> — a blogging network and conference with an emphasis on women.<\/p>\n

Gina Trapani<\/a> – Editor of Lifehacker<\/a>, a geek productivity tips blog.<\/p>\n

Dave Winer<\/a> – The man who pioneered and evangelized RSS (thus opening a big door to the connected blogosphere as we know it today).<\/p>\n

Will Wright<\/a> – Game designer. He created SimCity — the reason you failed out of college.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Zeldman<\/a> – Publisher of A List Apart<\/a>, one of the primary online publications guiding web development standards.<\/p>\n

The Conclusions…<\/strong>
\nWe’re inundated with talented and brilliant minds, and the list above represents just a small handful of them. But let’s be real here: it’s not so much a big deal to be famous on the Internet. Anyone can do it. Well, sort of. You just need to be persistently and flagrantly useful, naked, loud, or rich.<\/p>\n

To put all this in perspective, allow me to direct you to A-List Blogger Jason Calacanis’ poignant rant: More proof that that there is no A list (or at least, if there is, it means NOTHING!)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You may now return to your regularly scheduled surfing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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