Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing editor
Position: 41 Last year: Not ranked
Why? Bloggers rule
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Blogger and science fiction author Cory Doctorow is one of the editors of influential tech blog BoingBoing - which describes itself as "A directory of wonderful things".
From 2002-2006 Doctorow was the director of European affairs for the digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, of which he remains a fellow, as well as publishing a number of science fiction novels and short stories. Some of these works have been made available under a creative commons licence that allows readers to copy the stories freely, provided they do so for non-commercial purposes. His most recent book is Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present.
Making the top 50 for the first time, Doctorow reflects the increased influence of bloggers who are now wielding real power. One of the panel described BoingBoing as "hugely read" and very influential with the generation that's just coming into the tech industry.
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"Blogging's definitely got to the point where there're enough mainstream consumers watching it for the top bloggers to be regarded as agenda setters."
Michael Smith,
Agenda Setters panellist
"Open source gets more important rather than being something that will get squeezed out of the enterprise."
Simon Briskman,
Agenda Setters panellist
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Meanwhile, this year's vote also saw social networking and blogging make a real impression with Rob Pardo of World of Warcraft, Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, and Cory Doctorow, editor of BoingBoing, all staking a claim to a top 50 spot.
The vote saw social networking and blogging make a real impression with Rob Pardo (23) of World of Warcraft, Michael Arrington (35), founder of TechCrunch and Cory Doctorow (41), editor of BoingBoing all arriving in the top 50.
Another blogger to make it into the Top 50 is Cory Doctorow at 41 who runs BoingBoing - according to Technorati, its most popular blog. Bloggers are now so influential that for the first time a growing number of them can count themselves among the...
A crowd of more than 300 people, primarily involved in the publishing industry, came to the event to hear speakers ranging from Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing co-editor and science fiction author, to representatives from major publishing outlets such...
Cory Doctorow, the former European affairs co-ordinator for the EFF, warned last year that giving such protection to webcasters could allow them to monopolise material covered by Creative Commons licences, and would enforce the use of DRM.
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