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Top 25 Web Celebrities of 2009 According to Forbes

At number one, we have “The Queen of Mean” himself herself, Perez Hilton.

Let’s run through the rest of the list…

#1 Perez Hilton

#2 Michael Arrington

#3 Kevin Rose

#4 Frank Warren

#5 Cory Doctorow

#6 Pete Cashmore

#7 Beppe Grillo

#8 Heather Armstrong

#9 Guy Kawasaki

#10 Jason Calacanis

#11 Robert Scoble

#12 Will Leitch

#13 Jeff Jarvis

#14 Wil Wheaton

#15 Nate Silver

#16 Om Malik

#17 Matt Drudge

#18 Owen Thomas

#19 Dave Winer

#20 Seth Godin

#21 Brian Lam

#22 Mark Frauenfelder

#23 Steve Rubel

#24 John Dvorak

#25 Leo Laporte

Mashable: Non-stop Technology & Web News

Founded in 2005 in an unlikely city in Scotland, Pete Cashmore has turned his dream of up to the minute updates on everything tech, media, web, and social networks into one of the most profitable blogs in history, Mashable. With over 5 million monthly pageviews, anyone that makes it on the site either in an article or as a sponsor for the site is sure to be seen by the who’s who of the online media world.

Mashable has been highlighted in Technorati, the New York Times, Washington Post and Forbes, while being a fan favorite to interact and catch up on the latest events. Mashable’s contributing writers are all published and established writers that look to be a part of a much bigger blog. Just recently Pete and the Mashable team put on a Mashable Tour with their partners of Social Media Camp. This multi-city tour highlighted presentations from the best of web and media minds and afterwards offered an excellent opportunity for these minds to mingle.

Currently Pete Cashmore divides his time between San Francisco, New York, and the UK. He’s constantly staying abreast of the latest trends in social networks, and hosts monthly events to keep the conversation going.

I have personally met Pete during one of the Mashable tours here in Austin, and was amazed at how cool and approachable he was. He literally took photos with all the hundreds of people that attended the after party and was truly interested in talking to everyone.

Mashable is a definite site to subscribe to, and make sure to follow Mashable on Twitter as well for even more information then you think you can handle. Just watch out for the overload!

Mashable: Who Are These People??

For a long time now I have been reading the web 2.0 news blog, Mashable. After reading Mashable for so long I have come to know the writers and their individual writing styles, but I have never understood why they are classed as “new media experts”, and what they might or might not have done before Mashable.

Founder/Co-Editor – Pete Cashmore: Pete calls himself a “new media expert”, but it is very difficult to work out what he actually has done in his career, except start Mashable. Nowhere on the web can i find a good profile of Pete or even more information, so if your reading this Pete please get in touch for a real interview!

Co-Editor – Adam Ostrow: Adam writes his own blog over at AdamOstrow.com. He has just become official editor of Mashable a few days ago. Adam seems to be the only Mashable staff member with some actual web startup experience. He has co-founded 2 startups, Mindsay and Qwizzy.

Lead Writer – Kristen Nicole: Kristen seems to write about 20 articles a day for Mashable. Im sure she wrote her own blog before this, but I cant find the link.

Writer – Stan Schroeder: Stan seems to have disappeared from the regular Mashable writing team. I have noticed he has been posting a few articles on his regular blog FranticIndustries, but Mashable hasn’t been on his radar.

Writer – Andy Angelos: Andy seems to be the new writer on the block. He has his own blog at AndyAngelos.com. Andy has a good deal of experience, he has worked with projects such as; VentureMidwest, Venture Capital Conferences and Inventables.

Compared to the other web 2.0 news sites out there, the Mashable team is quite inexperienced with actual startups and companies with relevance to their own interests. They just cant compare to Calacanis, Arrington and Scoble, who has just so much work experience. Arrington has an amazing team around his and Read/Write Web has started to grow their team also with very creditable staff, so Mashable it is very hard for anyone to take you seriously especially when you lack experience and credibility.