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I read it on 11/27/09 at 11:08 AM
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By Senior Editor Kris Smith (@croncast)
 Linking words together online is an hobby. Creating context from those words is an art. Making them work in harmony is a gift. The team at Thomson Reuters have done this for some time with their Calais project and the first consumer product from it OpenCalais.
OpenCalais is a monster database filled with linked data that can be accessed by anyone via a special API. Currently it works on an individual application level and as plugins with other popular CMS and blogging platforms. In tandem they create a more powerful experience for the publishers of new content by allowing the integration of linked data for linking, tagging and finding optional third-party resources for inspiration.
Word on the street and from a trusted source is that the Calais team has something new on the horizon their own CMS. A release of a CMS that has semantic technologies built right into is a powerful addition to the marketplace. Many blogging platforms and CMS products available today have stagnated under the weight of their own popularity.
It is hard to innovate when you are leading the pack or trying to figure out how to make money from your product that is free. Time and resources become devoted to maintaining the status quo, patching holes and community relations and support. Not to mention that many of these tools have crept out from the minds of developers and not publishers.
The same can't be said for Thomson Reuters Calais Initiative. With a business model built in from the inception of the project they have the ability to create value from the wealth of content that is entering their system. It is treated to some natural language processing, machine learning and prepared to link with other content. As the initiative currently exists it is the side car to better publishing as there is no status quo or hole patching. They realized this.
Throwing a CMS on top of this type of foundation is a logical move for OpenCalais to extend development and create publisher relations. There has been so little innovation in core CMS offerings that most rely on third-party developers to create additional functionality or implement API's like OpenCalais, Zemanta and other discovery products.
An OpenCalais CMS, blogging platform or whatever comes from this group is going to be a welcome addition to the choices that publishers have available today. The closest opportunity today to creating a true semantic experience in a publishing platform that is readily available would be to install the Zemanta plugin in WordPress. It transforms the writing experience. An offering from Calais could transform the writing and CMS experience.
Update: Krista Thomas (@kristathomas) from OpenCalais got in touch to say that there is a fully integrated CMS based on Drupal called OpenPublish available now.
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I read it on 10/01/09 at 06:48 AM
Posted on 09/30/09 at 09:56 AM
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I favorited a YouTube video: Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London, England (both of his parents were physicians) and earned his medical degree at Queen's College, Oxford. In the early 1960s, he moved to the United States and completed an internship in San Francisco and a residency in neurology at UCLA. Since 1965, he has lived in New York, where he is clinical professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, adjunct professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine and consultant neurologist to the Little Sisters of the Poor.
In 1966 Dr. Sacks began working as a consulting neurologist for Beth Abraham Hospital, a chronic care facility in the Bronx where he encountered an extraordinary group of patients, many of whom had spent decades in strange, frozen states, like human statues, unable to initiate movement. He recognized these patients as survivors of the great pandemic of sleepy sickness that had swept the world from 1916 to 1927, and treated them with a then-experimental drug, L-dopa, which enabled them to come back to life. They became the subjects of his second book, Awakenings (1973), which later inspired a play by Harold Pinter ("A Kind of Alaska ") and the Oscar-nominated Hollywood movie, "Awakenings," with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
Dr. Sacks is perhaps best known for his 1985 collection of case histories from the far borderlands of neurological experience, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , in which he describes patients struggling to live with conditions ranging from Tourette's Syndrome to autism, parkinsonism, musical hallucination, phantom limb syndrome, schizophrenia, retardation and Alzheimer's disease. (This book later inspired a dramatic work by Peter Brook, "L'Homme Qui. . . .)
As a physician and a writer, Oliver Sacks is concerned above all with the ways in which individuals survive and adapt to different neurological diseases and conditions, and what this experience can tell us about the human brain and mind. His books exploring these themes have been bestsellers around the world and are used widely in universities in courses on neuroscience, writing, ethics, philosophy and sociology. They have served as the inspiration for artists working in forms as varied as poetry, essay, documentary, drama, painting, dance, cinema and fiction.
In 1989, Dr. Sacks received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on what he calls the "neuroanthropology" of Tourette's syndrome, a condition marked by involuntary tics and utterances, and how its symptoms can be perceived differently in different cultures.
His nine books, which also include Migraine (1970), A Leg to Stand On (1984) , Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf (1990), An Anthropologist on Mars (1995), and The Island of the Colorblind (1996), have received numerous awards and have sold several million copies worldwide in 22 languages. His most recent books are Oaxaca Journal (2002) and Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2001).
He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books , as well as various medical journals, and he is an honorary fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences, and Queen's College. The New York Times has referred to Dr. Sacks as "the poet laureate of medicine," and in 2002 he was awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize by Rockefeller University, which recognizes the scientist as poet.
Dr. Sacks has been awarded honorary doctorates from Georgetown University, Tufts University, the College of Staten Island, New York Medical College, the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Bard College, Queen's University (Ontario), and the University of Turin
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I read it on 09/28/09 at 09:08 AM
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no que eu concorde com os comentrios (no os li, no posso julgar)... mas apenas dois cents:
"quem" Sarah Lacy? aspirante a Thomas Jefferson? suplente do Obama? seguidora de Paris Hilton? ou s mais uma jornalista p-de-chinelo de um site que vive de blefes?
e a segunda coisa : NINGUM tem o direito de pichar a bandeira de uma nao, colocar fogo, rasgar ou fazer seja l o que for. A bandeira de uma nao no a bandeira do PT nem do Talib. At onde eu sei, a lei pode perfeitamente dar cadeia pra ela se ela pisar por aqui no futuro. Quer reclamar da burocracia? Entra na fila! Mas eu estou rindo at hoje da pisada dela e acho que vou continuar rindo...
No ltimo dia 3, o TechCrunch publicou um artigo de Sarah Lacy no qual a jornalista basicamente mete o pau no governo brasileiro por supostos problemas tcnicos e burocrticos que a impediram de vir ao nosso pas na data em que planejara. O mais relevante, porm, no foi a chiadeira dela, mas a reao de grande parte dos leitores.
Alm de escrever para o TechCrunch, Sarah trabalha para o site da Business Week e o Yahoo! Finance. Abaixo, segue um resumo do contedo de seu texto:
- Sarah decidiu vir ao Brasil para conhecer startups e empreendedores, pois prepara um livro sobre empreendedorismo em mercados emergentes.
- O Brasil era o lugar que ningum no Vale do Silcio insistiu para que ela visitasse, e seu marido at lhe pediu que no viesse, pois ouvira muitas notcias de sequestros e violncia.
- Mas ela estava convencida de que havia um mundo de empresas e histria empolgantes por aqui. Assim, durante cerca de quatro meses estudou portugus e planejou a viagem.
- Seu visto deveria ter chegado no dia 28 de agosto, mas isso no ocorreu com isso, ela perdeu tempo e dinheiro, sendo obrigada a reorganizar seu calendrio.
- Garantiram a ela que o visto chegaria at dia 2 de setembro, mas a nova data tambm no foi cumprida com isso, Sarah perdeu mais tempo e dinheiro.
- Ela trocou a passagem ao Brasil por uma China.
- Aparentemente, o governo brasileiro decidiu mudar para um novo sistema de computadores em seus consulados, e esse processo tem causado severos atrasos Sarah foi vtima disso.
- Ela conclui dizendo o seguinte:
Voc quer investimento externo e ateno, Brasil? Eis uma ideia: DEIXEM AS PESSOAS ENTRAR NO MALDITO PAS. Voc quer mostrar seu valor de TI? Que tal equipar seus consulados com sistemas de computadores que funcionam? Ou talvez implantar [a mudana] lentamente, para que outros postos possam cuidar da demanda. Ou treinar pessoas primeiro.
O pas deveria se sentir embaraado, e suas empresas deveriam estar furiosas. Vou planejar tentar todo esse negcio de Brasil novamente em dezembro ou janeiro. No por culpa dos empreendedores ou dos nossos leitores que isso aconteceu, e ainda acredito que h timas histrias no Brasil que eu vou querer contar. Mas ser um pas mais difcil de entrar do que a China no um bom indcio para o investimento externo, Brasil.
O texto de Sarah gerou muita polmica, com cerca de 500 comentrios no TechCrunch e repercusso em outros sites, alm de um interessante artigo de Paul Carr (que j ultrapassou os 450 comentrios) no mesmo blog.
Carr diz que, se tivesse uma startup, estaria puto, pois teria perdido uma oportunidade mostrar seu negcio para algum de fora do pas.
Ele nota que a maioria dos leitores que comentaram ataca Sarah e a poltica norte-americana de vistos. Alguns deles usaram palavras como reciprocidade' e troco', e muitos sugeriram furiosamente que ela deveria ter comeado a solicitar o visto mais cedo. Houve ainda reclamaes montagem da bandeira brasileira e afirmao do marido sobre a violncia no Brasil.
Confuso diante de tanta agressividade, Carr releu o texto de Sarah para ver se no deixara passar algum trecho batido um pedido para que o Brasil seja bombardeado de volta idade da pedra ou uma insinuao de que as mulheres do pas no so limpas, por exemplo. Mas no, ela realmente havia apenas reclamado que uma atualizao de computadores causou inconvenincias a ela e outros viajantes que j tinham seus vistos aprovados, mas que no o receberam no dia prometido.
Uma reclamao completamente vlida. Mas que gerou centenas de comentrios raivosos.
Assim, h basicamente dois grandes problemas nos comentrios sobre o post de Sarah: grande parte deles (1) foge do assunto principal a suposta falha tcnica e burocrtica do governo brasileiro e (2) demonstra excessiva agressividade.
Planejamento, bandeira, violncia, reciprocidade. A maior parte dos comentaristas concentrou-se nesses pontos e fugiu do mais importante no texto de Sarah.
Sim, ela poderia ter solicitado o visto mais cedo, usado outra imagem para ilustrar o post e, sei l, casado com um homem que no liga para a falta de segurana em outros pases. Os Estados Unidos poderiam ter um processo menos caro, desgastante e irritante para os brasileiros conseguirem o visto.
Que seja.
Nada disso muda o fato de que Sarah no recebeu seu visto na data prometida. Duas vezes. Nada disso muda o fato de que as startups brasileiras perderam uma boa oportunidade de divulgar seus negcios para a mdia do exterior. Culpa, segundo a jornalista, do governo brasileiro.
Esse o cerne da questo, ignorado na maioria dos comentrios.
No digo que Sarah no merece crticas. Muito pelo contrrio. Como nota o Valleywag, ela aparentemente no solicitou o visto a tempo, pois teve que recorrer a um tipo de servio de despachante e foi a dona desse servio que a informou sobre os problemas consulares. No duvido que o Brasil realmente tenha atrasado a entrega do visto de muita gente, mas existe tambm a possibilidade de a empresa ter cometido falhas e jogado a culpa para o governo brasileiro, e Sarah no levou isso em conta.
Enquanto isso, Jenna Wortham, do New York Times, conseguiu entrar aqui sem problemas, o que levou Peter Kafka, do All Things Digital, a dizer no Twitter que ela deveria dar dicas de visto a Sarah.
Para piorar, o artigo de Sarah exala certa arrogncia. Esta definitivamente a pior coisa que j ocorreu ao Brasil, Sarah Lacy no ser autorizada a visit-lo... Epic-est fail', de fato, ironizou o Valleywag.
Tanto Sarah quanto os seus leitores tm direito a criticar. Mas preciso uma ateno especial quando muitos dos que comentam fogem do assunto principal (o atraso na entrega do visto) e, pior, atacam o autor do texto com argumentos rasos (ou nenhum), ofensas absurdas e alto nvel de agressividade incluindo at ameaas. Por que tudo isso ocorreu? Como as coisas chegaram a esse ponto?
Paul Carr d a dica.
Ele diz que foi contratado pelo TechCrunch para ser o controverso, para dizer coisas inflamatrias e incitar debates furiosos entre idiotas. Como seus textos provocaram muito menos comentrios do que o de Sarah, Carr diz que passar a usar ttulos como estes abaixo, deliberadamente provocativos:
O Estado de Israel passou dados RIAA?
Aquisio do Last.fm pela CBS: o mais inteligente acordo norte-americano com um alemo desde Wernher von Braun?
Educao dos EUA no produziu um aluno decente desde o atentado de Oklahoma: ento por que to difcil para terroristas estrangeiros conseguir vistos H1B?
Os fanboys do Brasil: por que os usurios latino-americanos de Mac so ainda mais insuportavelmente presunosos do que aqueles no resto do mundo
Os franceses so preguiosos, os americanos so preguiosos, os britnicos tm dentes ruins, os palestinos so todos terroristas, e os suos ficaram ricos com ouro nazista e tudo culpa da AT&T
V se foder, Blgica
Brilhante.
O erro de Sarah foi falar mal de um pas. No caso, o Brasil.
Erro entre aspas porque o grande problema daquele post no o texto dela, mas os comentrios, que demonstram um nacionalismo exacerbado em manifestaes insanas e sem razo, no raras vezes aproximando-se da xenofobia e do racismo.
A questo aqui no o nacionalismo em si, mas alguns atos que derivam (em parte) dele. Essas reaes extremadas parecem ser infelizmente cada vez mais comuns, principalmente com o relativo anonimato proporcionado pela internet.
Crticas em geral podem atingir as pessoas de diferentes maneiras, provocando reaes variadas. Quando elas envolvem um sentimento de identificao como o nacionalismo , as reaes frequentemente so mais colricas e menos racionais.
Repito: no um problema (apenas) do nacionalismo. No prprio post de Sarah os comentrios ofensivos no so apenas de brasileiros. Muita gente de outros pases tambm meteu o pau nos Estados Unidos. Por qu? Provavelmente rolou uma identificao com os brasileiros em maior ou menor escala, o antiamericanismo um sentimento muito difundido pelo mundo.
Outro exemplo: futebol. Mesmo entre amigos, quando critico outros times, preciso tomar cuidado. Se no, acontece isto:
Voc viu o Juvenal Juvncio? O cara um...
Ah, t falando o qu? Vocs tm o Andres Sanchez!
Sim, eu tambm no sou f do Andres, mas...
Deixa o meu time em paz!
Pois torcer por um clube envolve um sentimento de identificao. Ento no raro eu preciso criticar o meu prprio time ou fazer algum tipo de ressalva antes de falar sobre o time dos outros, para desarmar o meu interlocutor. Eu sei que no Corinthians assim e assado, no gosto disso e daquilo. Ponto. Mas agora quero falar do Palmeiras.
Mesmo quando o assunto tecnologia, vemos reaes exageradas de gente que de alguma maneira se identifica com Apple, Linux, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Canon, Nikon...
Esse sentimento de identificao seja com nao, clube, marca, filosofia, religio ou qualquer outra coisa comum, aceitvel e muitas vezes incontrolvel. Mas ele no pode justificar atos extremos e irracionais, que no raras vezes tm consequncias graves.
necessrio haver maior tolerncia a opinies alheias, especialmente quando elas tocam em assuntos que envolvem sentimentos. Obviamente, no h uma soluo evidente para isso se houvesse, o mundo seria um lugar bem mais pacfico , mas no por isso que vamos ignorar esses excessos, deixar de debat-los. Talvez no exista de fato uma soluo definitiva para a intolerncia, mas h como diminu-la e discutir o problema certamente faz parte desse processo.
A intolerncia generalizada pode ser consequncia de uma tolerncia excessiva. Para ficar no caso do TechCrunch, a internet um ambiente to tolerante que acaba dando espao a manifestaes de intolerncia. Nesse caso, o desafio estabelecer os limites da tolerncia ela no pode servir como subterfgio para atos de intolerncia.
Como voc vai nas suas resolues de Ano Novo?
No fiz nenhuma.
Note que, para algum se aperfeioar, ele precisa ter alguma ideia do que bom. Isso envolve certos valores.
Mas como todos sabemos, valores so relativos. Cada sistema de crenas igualmente vlido, e precisamos tolerar a diversidade. Virtude no melhor que vcio. apenas diferente.
No sei se consigo tolerar tanta tolerncia assim.
Eu me recuso a ser sacrificado segundo noes de comportamento virtuoso.
O Brasil supostamente falhou com Sarah, e ela tem todo o direito de reclamar disso, assim como ns temos liberdade para critic-la. Mas tudo isso deve ocorrer dentro de certos limites que, a meu ver, foram respeitados pela jornalista, mas ignorados por grande parte dos leitores que deixou comentrios no post.
Quando os limites so desrespeitados, a liberdade de expresso perde um pouco do seu sentido. A manuteno desse direito passa pelo controle dos limites da tolerncia.
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I read it on 09/05/09 at 04:24 PM
Posted on 09/03/09 at 05:45 PM
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20 all-new designs from 20 great artists!
It's Dunny Series 2009!
Dunny is back in 3-inch form and morphed into pop art masterpieces in ways you've never seen him morphed before.
Get ready for Dunny editions of Devilrobots' To-Fu Head Son and Mori Chack's Gloomy Bear, plus a new bunch of wild figures equipped with the accessories necessary to wreak havoc on your collection.
Keep an eye out for 2 chases that slipped into the line-up, plus Golden Tickets redeemable for an elusive 3-inch Dunny by the NYC-based artist Pon. Not available for sale anywhere!
Each Dunny sold with a collectible insert card starting September 10!
Artists in this series include Amanda Visell, Andrew Bell, Amy Ruppel, Brandt Peters, Dalek, Devilrobots, Gary Taxali, Mori Chack, Huck Gee, Jeremyville, Kozik, Kronk, Luke Chueh, Mad, Pon, Shane Jessup, Shawnimal, SupaKitch, Travis Cain, and Thomas Han.
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I read it on 07/20/09 at 06:12 PM
Posted on 07/20/09 at 11:31 PM
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I read it on 07/08/09 at 10:22 AM
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Music News: Masuch to head rights management business -- German media giant Bertelsmann said Wednesday it was joining forces with private equity firm KKR to create a global music rights management business by expanding its BMG Rights Management division.
Bertelsmann will fold BMG Rights Management into the new group and hold a 49% stake, with KKR owning 51%.
Hartwig Masuch, BMG Rights Management's current chief exec, will serve as CEO of the new company.
KKR will provide "substantial equity investments through its European private equity funds," enabling the joint venture to expand through acquisitions and organic growth in the medium term.
Johannes Huth, who heads KKR's operations in Europe, said: "The music rights sector offers opportunities for significant growth across the globe. BMG has proven leadership and a strong track record of organic growth. Our financial strength combined with BMG's sector expertise will create a unique platform for building up a global music rights management business."
Thomas Rabe, Bertelsmann's finance chief and chairman of the joint venture, said: "With access to meaningful investment capital, we expect the partnership with KKR to contribute significantly to accelerating the development of the business. We both want to broaden BMG's global reach faster than originally anticipated. In this way we will be able to actively participate in the expected market consolidation."
With the music industry at an important turning point, the group sees attractive growth opportunities in the market for the licensing and administration of music rights, and noted the growing importance of music licensing beyond the recording business, such as broadcast and live performances as well as the synchronization of broadcasting, commercial and movie productions.
Bertelsmann added that the joint venture would "benefit from BMG Rights Management's know-how in licensing and administrating music rights, its large number of music catalogs and artists, the established BMG brand and its experienced management team."
The formation of the new company is subject to approval by competition watchdogs. The parties expect to complete the transaction within a few months.
Bertelsmann launched BMG Rights Management in October 2008 following the sale of its 50% stake in Sony BMG to Sony Corp. It initially encompassed a selection of European music catalogs retained from the former Sony BMG venture and consisted of about 200 artists. Since then, another 100 contracts with songwriters and other rights owners have been signed.
The company's repertoire includes songs and recordings from international and German artists such as Kylie Minogue, Andrew Roachford, Paolo Conte, the Scorpions, Peter Fox and 2Raumwohnung.
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I read it on 06/01/09 at 09:26 AM
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I've been in Aspen all week so missed this announcement from a couple of days ago:
NowPublic announces Silicon Valley "MostPublic Index"
Identifies the Web's 50 most influential people in Silicon Valley
NowPublic, the world's largest participatory news network, today announced its second MostPublic Index, identifying the 50 most influential individuals in Silicon Valley/San Francisco.
The MostPublic Index is a detailed (and transparent) barometer of whose voices are most heard in the digital landscape as new channelsTwitter, Facebook, Flick, YouTube and the liketransform how media is created and spread. Last week, NowPublic identified and announced the 50 MostPublic influencers in New York.
NowPublic's formula gauges influence and publicness across four categories:
- Online Visibility
- Presence on User-Generated Content and Social Networking Sites
- Interactivity and Accessibility
- The R Factor: Presence on Microblogging Platforms (Flickr, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.)
NowPublic examined statistics in each of these categories from Alexa, Compete, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Quantcast, Technorati, YouTube and various other blogs and sites, to create a list of Silicon Valley's leading influencers. It then narrowed the list to 50 by analyzing and documenting individuals' presence and popularity in each of these channels, applying a weighted scoring system, determined by the strength of specific traits held in each online community. A detailed account of the scoring system can be viewed here.
Here is NowPublic's list of the MostPublic individuals in Silicon Valley/San Francisco:
1. Robert Scoble
2. Michael Arrington
3. Jack Dorsey
4. Biz Stone
5. Matt Cutts
6. Pete Cashmore
7. Dave Winer
8. Guy Kawasaki
9. Loc Le Meur
10. Kevin Rose
11. Merlin Mann
12. Stowe Boyd
13. Jeff Atwood
14. Jeremiah Owyang
15. Veronica Belmont
16. Kara Swisher
17. Scott Beale
18. Marc Andreessen
19. Ryan Block
20. David Sifry
21. Emily Chang
22. Om Malik
23. Timothy Ferriss
24. Nick Douglas
25. John Battelle
26. David Cohn
27. Louis Gray
28. Tom Foremski
29. Tim O'Reilly
30. Ariel Waldman
31. Matt Mullenweg
32. Dean Takahashi
33. Philip Kaplan
34. JD Lasica
35. Sarah Lacy
36. Brian Solis
37. Charlene Li
38. Rafe Needleman
39. Dan Farber
40. Howard Rheingold
41. David McClure
42. Margaret Mason
43. Jason Goldman
44. Leah Culver
45. Chris Shipley
46. Jackson West
47. Liz Gannes
48. Owen Thomas
49. Adeo Ressi
50. Max Levchin
Color ValleyWag unimpressed.
Lists are fun, of course. But I'm decidedly not one of the 50 most influential people in Silicon Valley. This is more an indication of popularity on social media networks, and even there I'm not so sure.
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I've been in Aspen all week so missed this announcement from a couple of days ago:
NowPublic announces Silicon Valley "MostPublic Index"
Identifies the Web's 50 most influential people in Silicon Valley
NowPublic, the world's largest participatory news network, today announced its second MostPublic Index, identifying the 50 most influential individuals in Silicon Valley/San Francisco.
The MostPublic Index is a detailed (and transparent) barometer of whose voices are most heard in the digital landscape as new channels???Twitter, Facebook, Flick, YouTube and the like???transform how media is created and spread. Last week, NowPublic identified and announced the 50 MostPublic influencers in New York.
NowPublic???s formula gauges influence and ???publicness??? across four categories:
- Online Visibility
- Presence on User-Generated Content and Social Networking Sites
- Interactivity and Accessibility
- The ???R??? Factor: Presence on Microblogging Platforms (Flickr, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.)
NowPublic examined statistics in each of these categories from Alexa, Compete, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Quantcast, Technorati, YouTube and various other blogs and sites, to create a list of Silicon Valley???s leading influencers. It then narrowed the list to 50 by analyzing and documenting individuals??? presence and popularity in each of these channels, applying a weighted scoring system, determined by the strength of specific traits held in each online community. A detailed account of the scoring system can be viewed here.
Here is NowPublic's list of the MostPublic individuals in Silicon Valley/San Francisco:
1. Robert Scoble
2. Michael Arrington
3. Jack Dorsey
4. Biz Stone
5. Matt Cutts
6. Pete Cashmore
7. Dave Winer
8. Guy Kawasaki
9. Lo??c Le Meur
10. Kevin Rose
11. Merlin Mann
12. Stowe Boyd
13. Jeff Atwood
14. Jeremiah Owyang
15. Veronica Belmont
16. Kara Swisher
17. Scott Beale
18. Marc Andreessen
19. Ryan Block
20. David Sifry
21. Emily Chang
22. Om Malik
23. Timothy Ferriss
24. Nick Douglas
25. John Battelle
26. David Cohn
27. Louis Gray
28. Tom Foremski
29. Tim O'Reilly
30. Ariel Waldman
31. Matt Mullenweg
32. Dean Takahashi
33. Philip Kaplan
34. JD Lasica
35. Sarah Lacy
36. Brian Solis
37. Charlene Li
38. Rafe Needleman
39. Dan Farber
40. Howard Rheingold
41. David McClure
42. Margaret Mason
43. Jason Goldman
44. Leah Culver
45. Chris Shipley
46. Jackson West
47. Liz Gannes
48. Owen Thomas
49. Adeo Ressi
50. Max Levchin
Color ValleyWag unimpressed.
Lists are fun, of course. But I'm decidedly not one of the 50 most influential people in Silicon Valley. This is more an indication of popularity on social media networks, and even there I'm not so sure.
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