I was surprised recently that my wife knows who Ev Williams is (she's not technical at all, doesn't blog, and doesn't tweet). Surprised because he's not Gates/J

I was surprised recently that my wife knows who Ev Williams is (she's not technical at all, doesn't blog, and doesn't tweet). Surprised because he's not Gates/Jobs/Zuckerberg famous. Yet, I guess it makes sense because being responsible for blogging and Twitter is a pretty big footprint of influence even if he's a lot more low-profile and non-aggrandizing than those other guys.