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August 1, 2006
The New Media Elite
The Wall Street Journal recently released the New-Media Power List (subscription may be required), which includes a lot of unknowns and amateurs who have used social-networking sites like YouTube and MySpace to become the new media elite. WSJ's John Jurgensen writes:
"As videos, blogs and Web pages created by amateurs remake the entertainment landscape, unknown directors, writers and producers are being catapulted into positions of enormous influence. Each week, about a half-million people download a comedic video podcast featuring a former paralegal. A video by a 30-year-old comedian from Cleveland has now been watched by almost 30 million people, roughly the audience for an average "American Idol" episode. The most popular contributor to the photo site Flickr.com just got a contract to shoot a Toyota ad campaign."
And the winners are:
PODCASTERS
- Emmy-Nominated - Orin and Jerry Zucker, It's Jerry Time
- Top-Rated - Keith Mallery and Kemda, Keith and The Girl
- Top Video Podcast Producer - Jeff Macpherson, Tiki Bar TV
- The Web's Anchorwoman - Amanda Congdon, Amanda UnBoomed
- Video Podcast Stars - Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask A Ninja
- A Teen Hit - Andrew Sims and Ben Schoen, MuggleCast
AMATEUR VIDEO
- Most Watched Video on YouTube - Judson Laipply, Evolution of Dance
- Crossover Star - Brooke "Brookers" Brodack, myspace.com/brookealley
- Top Earners - Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments
- Corporate-Sponsored Traveler - Matt Harding, Where the Hell is Matt?
SOCIAL NETWORKING
- A Ruler Of Myspace - Christine Dolce, myspace.com/forbidden
- Grassroots Music Success - Lustra, myspace.com/lustra
MUSIC
- Popular Amateur Web Radio Broadcaster - Davide Nevue, Whisperings
- Top-Rated Music Blog - Scott Lapatine, stereogum
BLOGGING
- Top-Linked Bloggers - Cory Doctorow and Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing
PHOTOGRAPHY, TV AND FILM
- The Web's Top Photographer - Rebekka Gudleifsdóttir, Photos from rebekka
- Up-And-Coming Filmmakers - Susan Buice and Arin Crumley, Four Eyed Monsters
- Web-TV Taste Makers - Rob Schrab and Dam Harmon, channel101.com
- Top Machinima Film Makers - Rooster Teeth, roosterteeth.com
- The Pioneers - Mate and Mike Chapman, Homestar Runner
Who do you think should have made the list?
Posted by Lynne d Johnson at August 1, 2006 1:42 PM | Category: internet + web |
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Social computing environs are both a blessing and a beast. They allow people to follow their passions into fruition - kudos for that Flickr photographer for landing a shoot with Toyota.
At their worst when people share too much info or are deceitful communities like MySpace can become polluted.
I am surprised though that the article didn't also touch on Digg or del.ici.ous.
No one from finance or accounts side has been chosen.They should be.
Among bloggers ,some people are also doing well on environment,and ecology,or on recent happenings around the world.Should Fast Company not consider atleast who made contributions to company affairs.