Ze Frank was the closing keynote speaker at the annual STC conference this
year, approx. 20,000 attendees of professional technical writers. So, um,
he's *known.*

--Stephanie

On 6/20/07, Bill Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I think Markus was talking about Times person of the year issue where
> they named the person of the year as "you."
>
> Are your friends familuar with YouTube? That's videoblogging. When you
> talk about things like "most famous" etc. Those are hard things to
> quantify. There are Videobloggers like Zefrank who is very famous in
> some circles but is virtually unknown in others. And he never did put
> his stuff on YouTube and yet the most popular YouTubers probably get
> way more views than he ever did--and it's very likely that few on this
> list had ever heard of them. What I'm saying is "fame" is relative.
> Some of us are "famous" to a few--which sounds like an oxymoron, but
> it's true in a way. But thats the world we live in now--even
> conventional definitions of what seem like simple things like "fame"
> don't really mean anything anymore. So what I'm saying is that your
> question isn't an easy one to answer. To someone not familuar with
> internet video none of us doing this is famous in the least.
>
> Bill Streeter
> LO-FI SAINT LOUIS
> http://lofistl.com
> http://billstreeter.net
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> --- In [email protected], "oovooworld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Well yes I'd heard I was mentioned but I was hoping someone else was
> > kicking around with half the skill...its a lot of pressure to live
> > with you know...<sigh>
> >
> > I don't know how I missed that issue of Time. Was it the same one
> that
> > had the article reviewing George Bush's new pioneering green policy?
> >
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-- 
Stephanie Bryant
Author, Videoblogging for Dummies
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