25 most influential people on the web, where’s Michael Arrington?
In what is one of the most obvious omissions I have ever seen, BusinessWeek omitted Techcrunch editor Michael Arrington from their 25 most influential people of the web.
The writer of this must have been sleeping for the year or else something is seriously up at BusinessWeek.
Check out the list, its totally nuts, no Arrington, No Scoble, No Calacanis
Whats up with that?
* Steve Ballmer
* Mitchell Baker
* Jeff Bezos
* Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt
* Jeff Clavier
* Paul Graham
* Arianna Huffington
* Joi Ito
* Steve Jobs
* Jonathan Kaplan
* Loic Le Meur
* Jack Ma
* Matt Mullenweg
* Rupert Murdoch
* Craig Newmark
* Gabe Rivera
* Kevin Rose
* Sheryl Sandberg
* Jon Stewart
* Peter Thiel
* Maria Thomas
* Anssi Vanjoki
* Jimmy Wales
* Evan Williams
* Jerry Yang
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Pat
No matter who they include in a list of 10, 25, 50 or 100 people they will always miss out on some people.
Michele
I expect it is because Arrington is only really influential on the Valley. 95% of the people I talk to have never heard of him
Michelle
so make it 30
There are definitely people in that 25 who should not be there ahead of the three I mentioned
someone always get overlooked but glaring omissions like these suggest an undercurrent which is below BusinessWeek
LOL @Dennis
funnier by the minute bud
TechCrunch has a large audience and is obviously a great site in many ways, but Arrington (or Scoble, or Calacanis for that matter) simply don’t impact the majority of people on the web. They write about things that are of no consequence to the vast majority of the people who use the web.
By contrast, the HuffPo has broken stories that are of real significance to the world at large. Brin, Page and Schmidt have transformed how people interact with the web, Matt Mullenweg has made online publishing ubiquitous, and so on. The list might be flawed, but it’s an enormous stretch to put Arrington in the same league.
Now by the same token I agree that there are plenty of people on the list who should not be there, and also that BusinessWeek is also lacking in influence these days…
And someone we know has been trying to ensure that no-one hears from him , either !
Pat:
I agree with Dennis Howlett.
I also think this is a list of ‘doers’ (entrepreneurs and leaders and managers) not ‘commentators’ or ‘reporters’. Yes I know Huffington is more of the latter than the former but her empire grew far more and is read more widely than just Valley issues.
I am just sayin’..
I think you’re confusing influential with prolific.
Pat
with all due respect, you view Arrington as influential, but that doesn’t mean that everyone else will.
No matter how long (or short) a list is it won’t please everyone.
Michele
@michelle
I view Techcrunch as influential and de facto Arrington
If you look at that list there are people I have barely heard of
dude Gabe’s there - that’s the valley rep they picked this time. minimike.
Gabe is not a “minimike”. His site plays a massively influential role - for better or for worse - in where attention goes with regard to technology and start-ups. To dismiss him as a mere “valley rep” is at best short-sighted, at worst mean-spirited and ignorant.
Well said Jackie
I met Gabe for the first time a few weeks ago and can only reiterate your thoughts.
Gabe is one of the nicest guys I have met and I can only concur that he is one of the good guys