Most Influential People In Technical Mac Community 64
An anonymous reader writes "The MacTech Journal of Macintosh Technology has released MacTech 25, a list of top 25 most influential people in the *Technical* Mac community. According to the magazine 'The MacTech 25 is designed to recognize the technical contributions of developers writers, bloggers, problem-solvers and personalities to the Macintosh technical community.' The people were chosen by popular voting during June. Bios and pictures of the people on the list will be published in the printed MacTech magazine in time for WWDC."
Kottke? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Kottke? (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:Kottke? (Score:1)
Silly aftk2!
Re:Kottke? (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:Kottke? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Kottke? (Score:2)
Still on vacation, so not going to be posting here much I'm afraid....
Re:Kottke? (Score:1)
That's a relief. I thought you might have been banned, considering the satirical nature of your account [slashdot.org]. It's dangerous for people to make statements against the Slashbot mentality [slashdot.org] these days.
Re:Kottke? (Score:2)
As far as moderation goes, yes that one thread does look suspicious. I'm not terribly worried though; I generally have karma to burn. While there are individual cases of mods on crack or abuse of the system, on the whole I've been treated well by moderation.
Kottke ... obligatory Seinfeld quote ... (Score:1)
Tim Monroe (Score:1)
Re:Tim Monroe (Score:5, Interesting)
What a great list! (Score:5, Insightful)
It's all text, all names, and no links. Who ARE those people? I have no idea! I wanted to find out, but it looks like I'd have to Google each and every name.
Have you ever noticed that when Forbes or someone makes a list like this, they at LEAST give each person a few words to describe who they work for or some such?
Re:What a great list! (Score:2, Funny)
Agreed. Everyone on that list is a total nobody loser.
Re:What a great list! (Score:3, Insightful)
I actually chuckled out loud.
It's funny, though, that a large amount of the people on that lists are pundits, opinionators, journalists, popularizers, evangleists and the like, not really what I think of as tech people, like you and a few others. Why isn't Rael Dornfest [raelity.org] on the list? There's not enough people that actually program there. David Pogue is technical? Because he writes/edits the Missing Manuals?
Re:What a great list! (Score:2)
Re:What a great list! (Score:2)
I wouldn't associate him with Dvorak in any way, other than they both make their living by writing words. Still, if your point is that some of these names aren't really tech people, I completely agree. How many of them are actually doing tech, rather than writing about it?
Re:What a great list! (Score:2)
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Of course, there are people like Amit Singh and Aaron Hillegas who deserve to be on the list, and Brent Simmons makes some apps like NetNewsWire that a lot of people love (but I personally have no use for), and I guess Rosyna Keller too, but everyone here is right. There are far, far too
Re:What a great list! (Score:2)
Pogue's a good writer. I'm just saying that he's not a techie at all.
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I used to be a Mac fan but have to use a PC at work and can't afford to buy the latest Mac for myself - I probably would be still if I did.
I do have an old G3 PowerMac at home, but hardly use it.
If parent is a Mac user, I'm surprised he hasn't heard of those two, at least.
Re:What a great list! (Score:2)
If these people are really movers and shakers, I'd love to know why they matter.
A less crappy list. (Score:5, Informative)
Here's what I know of and/or could find for the ones I didn't.
Unfortunately, it seems that Slashdot has a limitation on the minimum number of characters per line. So I can't just create a nice, simple list, but instead need a significant amount of text to pad out the list, so that I can make it past the filters being used. But I'm still not there yet... sooner or later I will (20.4 is still too few). I'm probably going to have to type a whole lot of crap in here just to deal with the 25 names that are only a few characters each. (and I tried removing returns from the message, but it didn't seem to help at all)
Re:A less crappy list. (Score:4, Informative)
Mike Breeden is from Accelerate Your Mac [xlr8yourmac.com]. He might run it, but I'm not sure.
All I really know about Nigel Kersten is that he wrote SirAdmin [apple.com].
Meh. Not a sterling list...
Re:A less crappy list. (Score:2)
Nigel Kersten is on the staff at a university in Australia. I have no idea exactly why he's on the list, but he sends zillions of useful answers to questions on Apple's macos-x-server email list. (http://lists.apple.com/)
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Re:What a great list! (Score:2)
Back on topic, at least we now have a new measure of Mac geekiness: how many of the people on the list do you recognize? I know 6 for sure (including 1 of the honorable mentions) and I recognize maybe 3 or 4 of the other names but can't quite place them.
Re:What a great list! (Score:2)
The technical mac community is assumed to be so small that everybody knows everybody else?
Andy Ihnatko (Score:2)
After all, props are still in order if only for being the inventor of "Web That Smut [thealders.net]," possibly the only
So What? (Score:2)
Where's Bill? (Score:1)
Apple has impact on Microsoft? (Score:3, Insightful)
There are very few features Microsoft implements and Apple duplicates. So in what way in Bill influential on what Apple does? Apple seems to be well ahead of Microsoft at this point from a strategic OS and application perspective.
The only recent thing I could see Apple possibly adopting ome variant off is application ribbons from the new Office.
Re:Where's Bill? (Score:3, Funny)
(Which just makes sense; Gates would even know how to open a Mac.)
Re:Where's Bill? (Score:2)
Re:Where's Bill? (Score:1)
Yeah, Mr. Bill belongs on the list.
Some list... (Score:1)
It would be easy. None of those bothersome <a href>'s to worry about getting in the way of my list.
Where's Dvorvak? (Score:3, Funny)
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Huh? (Score:2)
No Leo? (Score:4, Insightful)
Leo & Qdial (Score:3, Interesting)
Don't be fooled (Score:4, Insightful)
Here's how this works:
(1) Magazine publishes list of "influencial" people.
(2) Magazine includes their regular contributors on the list.
(3) Magazine begins referring to their contributors as "highly influencial members of the Mac community."
(4) Magazine hopes we all fall for it.
This is no different than George W. Bush calling his house in Texas a "ranch" in hopes that everyone else will call it a ranch.
It has no lifestock and (originally had) no horses, yet all the press called it a ranch because that's what they were told. Six years later, his house is a ranch.
Re:Don't be fooled (Score:2)
It probably has more to do with the fact that most of the journos from the mainstream press have never been near a ranch, and got their ideas of what one is from watching "Dallas", i.e. a house in the middle of a big piece of Texas land where people who got rich from oil walk around in cowboy hats trying to look like good ol' regulah peepuh. "Hey theah, m' name's Geeowge. Come ohn in, tek the weight off yo' feet, and stay awhaal. Aahl tell th
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Re:"Infuential"? (Score:2, Interesting)
Rude.
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A miserable failure, the only possible outcome. (Score:4, Insightful)
is it to "pick your favorite CEO." We looked for the most influential in
the Mac TECHNICAL market.
This seems simliar to American Idol saying that this year, they've instructed the caller-in voters to pick purely on ability. How else could David Pogue and Mike Breeden -- admittedly both *very* influencial writers and news reporters in the Mac "space" -- out-garner Glenda Adams (of Aspyr.com fame, formerly president of Westlake Interactive), who seems, at times, to single-handedly not only keep Mac gamers with options, but also keep anyone interested in the Mac as a gaming platform?
Even then I'm just picking from my own favorites. What techs have these people championed? What BurgerLibs have they created or OpenGLs have they supported?
Re:A miserable failure, the only possible outcome. (Score:3, Interesting)
Ever since the G5 has stumped the modding community xlr8yourmac has kind have just been a reporting news site, but perhaps the future x86 Macs might bring back Mike's site to it's former
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I thought they were all switching to Ubuntu? (Score:3, Funny)
What?! No Paul Thurrott?! (Score:2)