Stephen Fry - Agenda Setters 2009

Name: Stephen Fry

Title: Geek, blogger and performer

Position: 35    Last year: Not ranked

Why? Being the popular face of technology

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While Martha Lane Fox may be the government's digital inclusion champion, broadcaster, comedian, blogger and all-round geek, Stephen Fry would doubtless take the people's choice category.

Fry's status as the popular face of technology enthusiasts was cemented in 2007 with the launch of his column in The Guardian newspaper about gadgets, named Dork Talk, and his personal blog, the first post of which extolled the virtues of smartphones.

However, the technology perhaps most closely associated with this Agenda Setter is Twitter - his account has more than 700,000 followers - and he remains the best known British user of the service.

Fry gets his place on the Agenda Setters list for his role as the acceptable face of technology, or, as one Agenda Setters judge rather pithily put it, for being "the geek's geek. A Twitter must-follow and the most influential tech nobody since the advent of web 2.0".