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Perhaps Nobody Voted for Michael Arrington in The Time 100 Poll

Posted on May 2, 2008
Filed Under Daily Links, Web 2.0 (Observations) |

Something little cheeky for Friday afternoon methinks.

First of all, in all seriousness, congratulations to Michael Arrington for being in The Time 100 most Influential People list, admittedly as number 100 out of 100 (but do see here). Irrespective of your views of the TechCrunch empire, the fact that the web is seen as a key influencer, the cheesy mantra of one man can make a difference is true, and that print media has recognised this should be celebrated. If the point man is to be Arrington, then let’s run with that and continue to drive forward as a team.

But… (and at this point let me flash an evil smile)

…I wonder how the voting and ranking was sorted? The UK has been subject to a huge number of ‘Top 100 ‘ clip shows, and they all generally work to the same mould. You work out what clips you can show, which commentators you have available, and then put this list of 100 on a website for the public to vote on (in olden days you could phone poll this and make 10p per call profit, which would pay for the commentators appearance fee).

Invariably that means that the at number 100 is actually the worst of the 100, and probably has a huge number of other that would garner more popular support if they had been on the list.

But I doubt Time magazine runs the same system as Channel 4 in the UK.

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