New Media Power Players

The Wall Street Journal had a fun article over the weekend, discussing the power players in the new media space. As is typical, I haven't heard of many of them, but anyone who pretends to know everything about the new media space is just fooling themselves.

The list of new media personages is part digital, part video, and part hype.

Winners:
StrongBad E-mail -the e-mail, the e-mail, what, what, the e-mail.

Starting to get old, but still great for laughs if you troll the archives. Techno is still the best.

Lustra: Little band makes is big on their own

The band that made it big on MySpace - it gives hope to the thousands of independent bands and their fans. It also goes a long way towards changing who decides music is cool. Radio stations and the Music Labels are losing their ability to create mega hits off formulas, and independent bands are leading the way.

Losers:

Christine Dolce - the queen of MySpace, with over a million links.

Since when are suggestive photos on the net a sign of a power player? She'll pose for a magazine as her success fades, there will be an outcry, and someone else will repeat the cycle in six months.

BoingBoing. -A directory of wonderful things
Proof that lots of links don't always make you powerful - BoingBoing has been a top-rated site for years and years. What has their impact been? TechCrunch, Springwise, Engadget - these sites make a difference in how a product is perceived. What has BoingBoing done lately? Who even reads them anymore?

Disappointing:
Diet Coke and Mentos.
We tried our own little Diet Coke, Mentos experiment this weekend. Granted we didn't spend 8 months on it, but it makes what those Eepybird guys did that much more impressive.