The Super Stars of New Social Media

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday July 30, 2006 @11:39PM from the better-than-a-summer-job dept.

sanspeak writes "The Wall Street Journal profiles the Moguls of New Media. It's not about the entrepreneurs who have created these new media islands like MySpace, YouTube and such, but people who participate in it and make it successful." From the article: "As videos, blogs and Web pages created by amateurs remake the entertainment landscape, unknown directors, writers and producers are being catapulted into positions of enormous influence. Each week, about a half-million people download a comedic video podcast featuring a former paralegal. A video by a 30-year-old comedian from Cleveland has now been watched by almost 30 million people, roughly the audience for an average "American Idol" episode. The most popular contributor to the photo site Flickr.com just got a contract to shoot a Toyota ad campaign."

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FP by Anonymous Coward · 2006-07-30 23:44 · Score: -1, Offtopic

FP, you ugly bastards.
Do this mean by LiquidCoooled · 2006-07-30 23:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Roland Piquepaille is the Simon Cowell of the internet world?

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Who's the most popular? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-07-31 00:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Anonymous Coward!
No one has ever posted as much as I have!

If you're a film producer, feel free to contact me.