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In part this looks like a Popular People on the Web list, not Important People.
Håkon Wium Lie isn't mentioned.
He wouldn't be important on the web then?
Given the dismal take up of stylesheets, apparently not.
Peter Levinsohn President, Fox Interactive Media
OK, say you have the financial backing of Rupert Murdoch, of course you are going to buy some good properties. I fail to see how this makes one become elevated to important. I mean, besides stringing together some good properties what actually qualifies this person as being important? What has he actually contributed beyond management and acquisition skills?
The list goes on to include politicians, bloggers, and even a MySpace personality. I just fail to understand how they are considered to be so important. Sure, they may hold important positions, or they may have a large audience, but how does that quantify their contribution to the internet? Next year someone else may be holding those purse strings. Will someone else then be just as important? Maybe my frame of reference is askew.
Besides that, what list could consider itself complete without the inclusion of Al Gore, who once claimed to have invented the internet. Now there's a worthy contribution...
The journalist appears not to know the difference between the web and the internet
That's the first thing I noticed, too.
Back in the 90's when everyone came up and talked to geeks like me about such things at parties, I'd ask socratically, "What is the difference between the Web and the Internet," and it'd be a fun few minutes as people hashed it out. Silly me, I thought everyone had figured it out by now.
The journalist appears not to know the difference between the web and the internet.
That's why people keep calling Vint Cerf "the Father of the Web."
More like the maternal grandfather.
Ya gotta admit, with the quality of current journalism and editing, "Vint Cerf" is a heck of a lot easier to spell than "Tim Berners-Lee."
