Nov
5
The People of Web 2.0
November 5, 2006 |
Perfect fodder for all of those who hate talk about blogging A-lists and “A-listers.” Dan Frost of The San Francisco Chronicle has compiled a list of the key people of the Web 2.0 movement. He is only missing out one player - all of the users.
So here I present - the A-list according to Dan Frost - let the “I am not part of the elite” rally begin:
- Heather Armstrong www.dooce.com.
- Michael Arrington techcrunch.com
- John Battelle www.battellemedia.com.
- Elissa Camahort, Jory Des Jardins and Lisa Stone .mac.com/elisa_camahort/iblog, jorydesjardins.com, surfette.typepad.com.
- Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield www.caterina.net, www.sylloge.com
- Tara Hunt www.horsepigcow.com.
- Brewster Kahle
- Kevin Kelly www.kk.org.
- Lawrence Lessig www.lessig.org/blog.
- Chris Messina www.factoryjoe.com/blog.
- Craig Newmark www.cnewmark.com.
- Tim O’Reilly radar.oreilly.com.
- Zack Rosen www.zacker.org.
- Jimmy Wales blog.jim mywales.com (Live Writer says this is not a valid hyperlink…)
Share This
Related Posts
- Firefox Marketing
- Daily Roundup
- For More Digg News
- The End of “Conversations”
- Business 2.0 on Blogging for Money
Comments
2 Comments so far
Get new posts by RSS
You are surprised? Dan’s article is great, but, yes, you are right. All of the people who make up the powerful force that is web 2.0 are missing: the bloggers, the vloggers, the photographers, the Firefox users, etc.
I talked a little about this over at my blog…but the real point is…that if we take the ‘egos’ out (the who is what is), that these articles still give fodder to something that is growing. Rather than those terrible articles saying “How this kid made $60M in 6 months” and “Blogging for $$”, Dan’s article pays tribute (in a positive way) to a growing unrest with the status quo.
I thought he was writing an article about WineCamp.
I was totally taken aback to see it was about web 2.0.
Anyway…you list a great deal of ‘A-Listers’ on your blogroll…we all subscribe to TechCrunch…the media will still always give the big-bang examples. We all continue to support the process of celebrating one person or another over the smaller, unsung heros.
That’s when we will see the real shift that Dan is talking about in that article.
Tara, you are absolutely right - I was mostly being facetious, as I had a bit of a discussion on the blog about the A-list issue the last time this came around.
All the people on the list are great bloggers and deserve to be mentioned. I just wished he would have acknowledged the role the users play in all of this.