Business 2.0 opens up voting for the people “who matter now”
Business 2.0 has opened up voting to invite people to “vote for the businesspeople who inspire, inform and infuriate you, from CEOs to entrepreneurs to media stars.”
Kevin Rose of Digg and Revision3/Diggnation fame is leading the pack in terms of number of votes by an extremely large margin, with 293,422 (the runner-up is Mel Karmazin, the CEO of Sirius Satellite Radio, with 90,229 votes.) Even with the large number of votes, Kevin is only in 9th place in terms of his rating, whereas Mel is 5th.
In the ratings department, Justin Kan from Justin.tv is leading the pack with a 88/100 rating, with the always egoistic Jason Calacanis formerly of Weblogs Inc. at 80/100.
The thing that I’m most surprised about is the massively disproportionately number of votes that Kevin has received, considering that there are other people in the list that are much more well known than him, including Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple Inc., Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, and Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.
I guess this goes to show just how far the power of the Digg effect can come into play?
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Yep, the number of votes Kevin has received is definitely due to the Digg effect. Diggers would also be more likely to vote in this sort of Internet poll. This is sort of an exaggerated example of why Internet polls generally cannot be trusted to reflect what the majority of everyone thinks.
I find it funny how Steve Jobs and Fake Steve Jobs are tied in terms of their average rating. (As of the time of this comment)
I would imagine that Fake Steve Jobs would have a higher rating but less votes in general because he’s lesser known, but the people that know him probably like him more than the real Steve Jobs.