[Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America

[Leurs, MA, K.H.A. (Koen)]

Dear all, dear Sue,

Interesting question, but when approaching the project from the perspective of people who are Non- North American hot shots, Americans implicitly remain the norm.
And others remain outsiders. They remain 'space invaders', in terms of Nirwal Puwar.

Anyway, in the context of the Netherlands and Europe, Neelie Kroes is interesting, making the Forbes top 100 of most influential women a couple of times. She was the former European Comissioner on Competition, dealing with operating system's interoperability, she was responsible for fining Microsoft for 500 million etc.

In the area of critical studies of digital media in the Netherlands but also globally, Geert Lovink, of the Institute of Network Cultures, is of great interest too.

Good luck with your project,

Koen.



-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org namens Yuri Takhteyev
Verzonden: zo 6-3-2011 23:34
Aan: AoIR-L Aoir
Onderwerp: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America
 
For Russia one would also want to mention Maksim Moshkow, the author
of lib.ru (an online library) and Anton Nosik, a co-founder of many
early Russian online projects.

One of Nosik's claim to fame is that he is followed on Twitter by
President Medvedev despite the fact that his twitter screen name is
just one letter short of being unprintable.

  - yuri

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Tatyana Lockot <tatyana.lockot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sue,
>
> For Russia and RuNet it would have to be Artemy Lebedev, founder of
> Art.Lebedev studio. He's an icon, very popular, and his blog has thousands
> of readers, he's often quoted.
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