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MacTech's 25 most influential, version 2007
MacTech has released their MacTech 25 for the second year in a row-- it's a list of the top 25 most influential people in the Mac community (as selected by the community itself), and it reads like a who's who of people doing great stuff : John Gruber, the suave-looking Aaron Hillegass and Brent Simmons all make return appearances. This year they chose everyone who's ever programmed for MarsEdit (as Daniel Jalkut is happy to say), not to mention both co-founders of Rogue Ameoba, Paul Kafasis and Alex Lagutin.Who's missing? Anyone from Apple-- MacTech specifically left them off the list to make sure they didn't hog the Spotlight, so to speak. They say that Apple employees are allowed to be put in the Honorable Mentions section, but as far as I can tell, while Leo Laporte, David Pogue and Merlin Mann all made it, no one from Apple actually did. Better get cracking on those influencing techniques for next year, guys.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
terssi said 9:32AM on 6-07-2007
Many old farts from TidBITS, but no mention of Walt Mossberg?
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SubGenius said 10:34AM on 6-07-2007
no props for the Reality Distortion Field Generator ?
Maybe it was turned off during the voting?
These are not the iPhones you are looking for.
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HoDown said 11:31AM on 6-07-2007
who's the goober in the hat?
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Buckingham said 11:50AM on 6-07-2007
Hey, that cowboy is on my Cocoa book cover.
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Wheels said 11:58AM on 6-07-2007
I'm kinda sorry for saying this, but I just gotta....
That has to be the creepiest photo I have ever seen on TUAW. It makes me feel as if I need to protect small children.
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Wheels said 12:00PM on 6-07-2007
I'm kinda sorry for saying this, but I just gotta....
That has to be the creepiest photo I have ever seen on TUAW. It makes me feel as if I need to protect small children.
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Jeff Kirk said 2:29PM on 6-07-2007
Looks like the love child of Sanjaya and Don Imus!
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Pancho said 4:52PM on 6-07-2007
Ya maroons. That's Aaron Hillegass of Big Nerd Ranch fame.
Hey, Aaron! You're the MAN.
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C. Grant said 7:02PM on 6-07-2007
Hi Mike! :D
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Tim Houghton said 7:37PM on 6-07-2007
Since the list seems particularly biased towards developers, where's Dave Hyatt, Nicholas Jitkoff, Adriaan Tijsseling, David Watanabe, Doug Adams, or Erik Petit, to name but a few? I mean, c'mon, I love SuperDuper as much as the next guy, but it seems a stretch to call it "influential" - how many average OS X users will ever use it?
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