Question of the Day: Do the A-list bloggers still matter?

Keywords: MySpace, A-list blogger, Digg, Generation Y, Dave Winer

Derrick Oien:
"I was talking to Peter today about some cool marketing stuff he is working on. The topic of influencers came up and I told him that I am not interested in the blogging intelligentsia or the web 2.0 crowd in general as I feel that many (not all) of them ignore the youth market. I told him that case in point to me was that Dave Winer, the inventor of RSS, ignored the rollout of MySpace's implementation of RSS and Podcasting. I told Peter that it was funny to me that this post I wrote is the number one search result for Google for the words Myspace and Podcasting and that the 'blogosphere' said nothing about the fact that 45 million people now see RSS and podcasting on their number one addiction. Hey Dave, What's the deal? THIS IS HUGE. This is way more important than the gazzillion web 2.0 companies that rollout RSS and other stuff that have ZERO customers."
Source: User Generated Content
[via pc4media]

Blogs:
AtariBoy and Digg leads the Y-List revolt - Squash
Should marketers focus more on the A-list bloggers? Not necessarily. - Blogspotting