Web’s Most Visible Vancouverites | September 30th, 2008
As a way to procrastinate from more important things at the moment, I thought that I would compile my own numbers about the recently published web’s most 20 visible Vancouverites. Note that they got David Eby’s web address wrong and seem to think that Flickr is a microblogging site. I digress.
It all seems to have created a little Vancity controversy. So I figured that rather than using some secret equation as NowPublic is using I would just list some of the stats for different people from different web sites such as Google, Twitter, Flickr and so on and readers can draw their own conclusions.
| Name | Rank | Links* | Twitter* | Flickr* | YouTube* | LinkedIn* |
| 1 | Darren Barefoot | 2180 | 1810 | 5196 | 305 | |
| 2 | Tim Bray | 3020 | 2151 | |||
| 3 | Boris Mann | 761 | 877 | 9265 | 19 | 418 |
| 4 | Kris Krug | 1060 | 1314 | 17694 | 200 | 500+ |
| 5 | Roland Tanglao | 1730 | 1251 | 39586 | 286 | |
| 6 | Tom Williams | 237 | 2120 | |||
| 7 | Megan Cole | 379 | 173 | 4845 | 50 | 103 |
| 8 | Rebecca Bollwitt | 1730 | 4729 | 2784 | 5 | 55 |
| 9 | Arianna Schweber | 504 | 13049 | |||
| 10 | Tod Maffin | 367 | 2175 | 32 | 8 | |
| 11 | Dick Hardt | 159 | 369 | 24 | 1 | 500+ |
| 12 | Tris Hussey | 124 | 7303 | 10799 | 4 | 354 |
| 13 | Alfred Hermida | 989 | 743 | 203 | ||
| 14 | Matthew Good | 1530 | 1024 | 6 | ||
| 15 | Ian Andrew Bell | 36 | 122 | 1334 | 500+ | |
| 16 | Travis Smith | 340 | 740 | |||
| 17 | Danny Robinson | 137 | 279 | 94 | 412 | |
| 18 | Paul Sullivan | 3 | ||||
| 19 | David Beers | 1780 | ||||
| 20 | David Eby | 454 |
Take it with as many grains of salt as you like. It is interesting that some of the people were not that easily discoverable on many of the sites that I checked yet are still considered visible… let along checking Jaiku, FriendFeed, Tumblr, Delicious, Meetup, Upcoming, Dopplr etc
I also decided to check on how Andre and myself fit into those numbers.
| - | Andre Charland | 211 | 2194 | 7480 | 54 | 348 |
| - | Dave Johnson | 91 | 1452 | 521 | 2 | 67 |
Clearly I am out of my league when it comes to incoming blog links but I hold my own on the Twitter front and at least have some amount of content on each of the sites listed (and more of course). On the other hand, Andre seems to be in the top 25% in each category aside from lagging in the bottom 25% for incoming links to his blog.
Anyhow, food for thought. Damn web socialites 
Disclaimer: Darren does online marketing for Nitobi (so I guess it’s partly his fault we don’t have more incoming links ). I also couldn’t sleep last night and therefore produced this piece of garbage.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:11 am
first rate
someone is thinking for themselves
September 30th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Dave you never cease to amaze me! Interesting nonetheless, I should step up my efforts on inbound links, twitter and Linkedin.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
@andre seriously you do
and seriously I was awake from 2am to 7am this morn so what other choice did I have - bloody jet lag
@allan thanks for that. maybe it will carry over into my thesis defense tomorrow!
September 30th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
My LinkedIn probably comes up with nothing since my name was spelled wrong
I’d be at least a 55 hehe
September 30th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
@rebecca yah what is with all the mistakes in that article? wait, did I just say that about the Sun?
September 30th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I found the Vancouver Sun/Now Public thing to be rather interesting. Like you, I wanted to see where I stacked up, and certainly kick some people’s asses on this list.
Links:809 (for site I’m currently migrating: http://www.hauteculture.ca)
Twitter: 13603
Flickr 3467
YouTube 3
Linked In 245
Seriously - anyone with fewer than 200 links to their site shouldn’t be on an “influential” list. Come on, NowPublic. I thought you guys were smarter than that.
September 30th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
[...] Johnson of Nitobe has a good comparison and analysis up, and he basically says the same thing I did. “These are folks who are engaged. They are [...]
September 30th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Once Alexei gets clean URLs for his blog, then we can talk about more links for Nitobi. Heh.
As I’ve said elsewhere, it’s clever marketing by NowPublic, and masterful link bait. Maybe we should make a similar list for the Ajax community…hmmm…
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
@darren Haha yah alexei is a total slacker!
I was sure not to link to NowPublic since I didn’t want to contribute to the baiting