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Who is Most Influential?
- mixmax 19y agoWith all respect for Paul Graham I don't think he deserves a place on this list. Steve Jobs is 195 and Nelson Mandela is 192.
- sdurkin 19y ago#2 is Korean popstar Rain.
- hooande 19y agoJust putting this out there...Paris Hilton hit #173, Amy Winehouse was #174. Maybe if YC replaced PG with a young substance abusing woman it would be more popular with the media.
- apgwoz 19y agoWhen "High School Musical Cast" is #42, we've obviously got bigger problems.
- huherto 19y agoI was surprised to see Steve Jobs and Nelson Mandela at the end, IMHO they should be way higher. Most of the people on the list I really do not know. I recognized a few artists, but thats all. The pope is number 74, I suppose there are only 1,131,000,000 catholics in the world.
- SwellJoe 19y agoSomewhere below the Dalai Lama...and all those other people. Of course, we should take this very seriously, since number 2 right now (and the landslide winner last year), is someone by the name of "Rain" who is apparently a pop sensation (and obviously incredibly influential) in Korea or some other place where "pop sensation" really means something--not like our namby pamby pop sensations here in the States. I think it's safe to say that Time Magazine is thoroughly on the right path when it comes to user generated content.
- astine 19y agoThat's why Bono and Bruce Springsteen are #11 and #12 respectively?
- henning 19y agoDon't bother, the Colbert fans will bury anyone who stands in their way.
- Raphael 19y agoYou forget the Koreans and their cult around singing sensation Rain.
- thaumaturgy 19y agoUgh. Completely unrelated to the actual content -- why, oh why, do people take a simple thing like static tabular data, and make a Flash object out of it? Why? Now it doesn't scroll like anything else does, and in exchange for losing the ability to scroll-wheel through the list, I get ... nothing.
- Raphael 19y agoPlus I can't open a link in a new tab. Although, to be fair, flash does discourage bots, which is important for a fair poll.
- muszek 19y agoThen make voting a flash-only feature (not that I think it's a good idea to do it). The most annoying "feature" of flash in this case is that you can't search [for Paul Graham] in the text. Flash is good for embedding videos, animating stuff, etc. It's terrible for text and navigation, as the accessibility is next to none.
- adamhowell 19y agoDamn, I thought this was some new line of children's books.
- xmilestegx 19y agohe is still in beta. open beta, but beta none the less. When his brand of influence is bought by the market he'll be on the list.
- billroberts 19y agoNever mind Paul Graham, where is Rick Astley?
- immad 19y agoThat title just seems like voting-bait. Could have just said what the contents of that article are.
- astine 19y agoThis is only a measure of influence amongst Time magazine readers. This is the same magazine that made Hitler man of the year: http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauMemorial/TimeCover.html http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauMemorial/TimeCover.html I wouldn't take it seriously.
- pg 19y agoTime's Man of the Year was not originally an endorsement. It was simply the person who'd affected the news most that year. Since a significant number of readers continued to misinterpret it as an endorsement, Time eventually gave in and made it one. But that was much later.
- Raphael 19y agoHey! Someone changed the title of this submission. It is supposed to read "Where's Paul Graham?"