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
AMATEUR VIDEO
SOCIAL NETWORKING
MUSIC
BLOGGING
PHOTOGRAPHY, TV AND FILM
Who do you think should have made the list?
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Recent Comments | 3 Total
August 1, 2006 at 3:50pm by Marilee Veniegas
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.
August 2, 2006 at 1:24pm by mahendrakumardash
No one from finance or accounts side has been chosen.They should be.
August 2, 2006 at 1:29pm by mahendrakumardash
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.