Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

You Paul, you’re missing. They clearly weren’t measuring volume…

What exactly is the point of the list? Is it a list of people who have the biggest audience online? Seems to me they are mostly journalists except of Mr Fry

Would be nice to see who are the most visible because of social networking versus this list which is mainly those who are already in very visible, public positions. Stewart comments that most are journalists.

I suspect the quality of their network is higher as journalism is what they do and hence they have the contacts anyway, but there is an emerging social scene of independents (i follow as many of them as i can).

It’s all good, but i do think there are separate clouds.

I saw this list this morning thanks to Alan Patrick. (@freecloud) Journalists by their very nature are followers not leaders and they report on the value created by other people like:

Simon Willison
Ian Forrester
Nick Halstead
Andy Mitchell
Alan Patrick
Umair Haque
Gary Reid
Pat Phelan
Connor ONeill
Matt Biddulph
James Governor
Ben Werdmuller
Andy McLoughlin
Daniel Applequist
Jeremy Keith
Steve Moore
Judith Clegg
Oliver Barrett
Simon Grice
Deidre Malloy
Robert Loch
Amanda Rose
Stewart Townsend
Helen Keegan
Sam Michel
Ian Delany
Paul Walsh

These are the people in the UK who are creating value with new technologies or events.

This list is not exhaustive but off the top of my head. I would not add any VC’s to this list.

More Fellatio
Come on Walshy, enough on the lists

The list is a load of bollocks

I agree with Sam’s comment and list although I would add his cheeky self to the list…would also add Christian Payne aka Documentally.

Load of f*cking bollox..

Silly list if ya ask me. Where is Hugh Macleod, Steve Clayton and yourself to name but a few !!

[...] The Web’s 20 most visible individuals in the UK NowPublic lists Rory Cellan-Jones, Stephen Fry, Nick Robinson, Ian Betteridge, Jack Schofield and of course Robert Peston among the top 20, using channels such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube to guage online visbility, presence on SMS/UGC sites, interactivity etc. (tags: socialmedia socialnetworking online) [...]

Disappointed not to make the list but I only know 5 so it’s not surprising.

Thomas Power
Chairman Ecademy

Not many women on the list?
Does the tech way of measuring them exclude their visibility or are they just plain not bothered about it?

So… I think lists like this are likely to miss people, no matter who creates them - mostly because they can only include people they know.

@Thomas - you’re never going to make a list if you continue to leave a signature in blog comments

Sarah - I don’t think it should include women for the sake of it. But I’m sure you didn’t mean that anyway. I’d love to see a list that includes as many business women (and men) as possible - like a directory.

… I’ve just come up with an idea.

Thomas - it’s visible - you’re on the risible list.

I spend my life on the web and I had to look up half of those people to see who they were! Makes me wonder “visible to WHO?”

“Disappointed not to make the list but I only know 5 so it’s not surprising.

Thomas Power
Chairman Ecademy”

Erm…. who are you?

Thomas.

Ego and stupidity is a very dangerous combination.

[...] Facebook’s 120 million, those users tend to be (a) influential - take a look at the list of the Web’s 20 most visible individuals in the UK and you’ll find they’re mostly Twitter users, even Stephen Fry - and also very active [...]