Forbes announces top 25 Web Celebs
Forbes compiled this year’s list by looking at a “Web Celeb” as a person famous primarily for creating or appearing in Internet-based content, and for being highly recognizable to a Web-based audience. From the candidate list of 200 Web celebrities each candidate was ranked in five areas:
1. Web references as calculated by Google
2. traffic ranking of their home page as calculated by Alexa
3. Technorati rank of their primary Web site or blog
4. TV/radio mentions and press clips compiled from Factiva
5. bonus points if ‘Web Celeb’ regularly published their own videoblog or podcast
The Web Celeb 25
1. Perez Hilton (real name “Mario Lavandeira”)
2. Michael Arrington
3. Mark Frauenfelder
4. Seth Godin
5. Cory Doctorow
6. Matt Drudge
7. Gina Trapani
8. Mark Zuckerberg
9. Harry Knowles
10. Robert Scoble
11. Frank Warren
12. Om Malik
13. Will Leitch
14. Jeff Jarvis
15. Kevin Rose
16. Kathy Sierra
17. Fake Steve Jobs
18. Markos Moulitsas
19. Xeni Jardin
20. Ryan Block
21. Glenn Reynolds
22. Pete Cashmore
23. Steve Rubel
24. Heather Armstrong
25. Darren Rowse
BOPsy’s 2007 Web Celebrity of the Year was formulated by the following scientific formula:
1. How many emails we got during the year from our friends that featured said online persona
2. The very nature of the content - funny, stupid, sick, perverse or really gross
Please vote on BOPsy’s top online personas below:
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Polls Archive
- Enchanted (31%, 8 Votes)
- The Mist (27%, 7 Votes)
- No Country for Old Men (15%, 4 Votes)
- Beowulf (8%, 2 Votes)
- Awake (8%, 2 Votes)
- August Rush (8%, 2 Votes)
- Fred Claus (4%, 1 Votes)
- This Christmas (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 26
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I wholeheartedly 100% agree. I could not have said it any better
Jul 26th, 2008
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