<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Scobleizer]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://scobleizer.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Robert Scoble]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://scobleizer.blog/author/scobleizer/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Why I pay PR people millions and&nbsp;millions]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>See, if you pay PR people millions and millions they&#8217;ll get you on lists like <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/071218/p116#a071218p116">the Forbes Web Celeb 25</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m just joking about paying PR people to get me on lists like this. I don&#8217;t have money to pay PR people. Seriously there are a lot of people who are far more deserving of Web fame than me.</p>
<p>Like who?</p>
<p>Well, any list of Web celebs that doesn&#8217;t have Joe Hewitt on it isn&#8217;t a good one in my book. He wrote the iPhone app for Facebook.</p>
<p>The inventor of the Web isn&#8217;t on this list. Where&#8217;s Joel Spolsky? He has more readers than I do. Tim O&#8217;Reilly isn&#8217;t on this list. Neither is Mark Cuban (<a href="http://www.blogmaverick.com/2007/12/18/my-new-facebook-strategy-and-the-fb-power-level/">who just became a Facebook whale with 5,000 friends</a>). Where&#8217;s the two guys who started Google? Or, heck, Ev Williams who funded Twitter? Loic Le Meur? He has a Web conference with 2,000 attendees and a video site that&#8217;s seeing 1,000 new videos a day. How about the YouTube team? Or the guy who did &#8220;Will it Blend?&#8221; Or <a href="http://www.imakethings.com/">Bre Petis</a> of Make Magazine? Or Hugh Macleod? And Fake Steve Jobs? That&#8217;s fine, but where&#8217;s <a href="http://www.uncov.com/">Uncov</a>? They are just as biting as FSJ or Valleywag but they actually code so their insults have more teeth. <a href="http://www.illdoctrine.com/2007/12/beating_the_little_hater.html">Jay Smooth?</a> I love that dude. Doc Searls? The three co-founders of BlogHer? Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, founders of <a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org">Global Voices Online</a>? Leo Laporte? (his radio shows and This Week in Tech are listened to by hundreds of thousands. John Dvorak?</p>
<p>OK, it&#8217;s almost 3 a.m. and I&#8217;m just getting started. There&#8217;s a LOT more people who deserve to be on such a list than me and that&#8217;s not just fake humility either.</p>
<p>I am honored, though. I just wish these lists were more inclusive. Who deserves to be on this list in your view?</p>
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