TIME Wants Your Vote: 100 Most Influential People
Every year, TIME magazine creates a list that showcases the most influential people who shape our world. Only 100 people can make the cut and TIME recently unveiled a list of 200 people from which the top 100 will be narrowed down. Go out and vote for people you deem worthy. As of this writing, the top 10 people are Stephen Colbert, Shigeru Miyamoto, J.K. Rowling, Sidney Crosby, Bono, Steve Spangler, Steve Jobs, Jon Stewart, Angelina Jolie and Sanjaya Malakar.
I voted for Steve Jobs, Michael J. Fox (how can you not love Back to the Future?), Rachel Ray (30-minute meals are great for the college life), YouTube’s Steve Chen & Chad Hurley, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Simpson’s creator Matt Groening and a few others. Who will you be voting for?
As long as we’re on the subject of voting, Houstonian tech guru Erica O’Grady needs some help to claim the Blogger’s Choice Award for Best Geek Blog. Also, Darius from COLOURlovers is trying to grab the title for Best Community Website of 2007 against big guys like del.icio.us, Flickr, Threadless and Yahoo! Answers.
I went for Stephen Colbert, Steve Jobs, and Richard Dawkins among others. Dawkins is well deserving of the list. I have to say though, who put Bono on that list? A 45-year-old Irish moron thinks he is more then just an irritating singer. Bono is no world saviour; he isn’t even a good singer.
No one who wears sunglasses all the time should be taken seriously.
Naturally I voted for you Paul.
Looks like Bill Clinton, and that Rain dude are running away with the votes, but don’t seem to get very high ratings.
The list almost seems like a joke though… maybe its just me but people like Crosby and the guy with the Nintendo Wii just don’t seem all that influential to me.
I voted for Steve Jobs and Dawkins, too, but I also found the Spangler guy intriguing - not because of the Mentos thing but because he’s a science teacher. It’s one thing to slide the bar across and vote, but it’s something else to take time to post a comment on the Time website about the person you voted for. Except for King whoever and Rain, the science teacher has tons of comments from other teachers and even a few students. As a former physics teacher, how could I not vote for Steve Spangler.