The Wall Street Journal profiles the Moguls of New Media today.

"On the popular Web site MySpace.com, members set up profiles with information about their interests and then network across the site, recruiting other members to link to their pages."

But there’s someone with the screen name "Forbidden" that claims to have 1 million friends!

"As one of the first 15,000 members to join the site, launched in July 2003 (MySpace now has 96 million members), she (Forbidden) built an early following that grew along with the site’s membership."

"A 24-year-old cosmetologist who until a few months ago worked at a makeup counter in a mall, she now has a manager and a start-up jeans company and has won promotional deals for two mainstream consumer brands."

Here’s a list of the New-Media Power List that includes David Nevue – a musician who I bought an ebook from almost 4 years ago – I had no idea he was so popular – all of this happened after I bought the ebook which focused on Music and the Internet.

I know Webmetricsguru.com is a Web Metrics blog – though some people who love Metrics also love art – and for those people there’s two Artist interviews I just published on ArtNYC.  

Interview with Amy Crehore, Painter of Pierrots & Monkeys – Part 1

Interview with Amy Crehore, Painter of Pierrots & Monkeys – Part 2

 

Olan Montgomery – In Person Artist Interview – Part 1

Olan Montgomery – In Person Artist Interview – Continued

In both cases, I tried to look for things that would be 1) different than what other people ask in interviews and 2) when there’s a metric to be found, what’s the metric for success (be it a show, a painting or a website).

Also, my interview with Olan gave me some ideas on the representation of visitor segmentation of traffic as themes in my life – sorta taking ClickTracks and heat maps to another level. 

If anyone gets a chance to read my interviews with Amy Crehore and Olan, drop me a line and let me know how you like them (now.seo AT gmail dot com).

Now that anything can be sold on Ebay (including body parts) it should be no surprise that someone wants to sell their own DIGG profile on Ebay.

With all of the recent news about top Digg users being offered cash by Netscape to move over to their competing platform, I’m not surprised to see that someone has apparently placed their top 100 Digg profile up for sale on eBay.

The auction, which started a few hours ago, is for the Digg username GeekForLife. The user has submitted 748 Digg stories, 39 of which have made it to the Digg home page. There are no bidders as of 4 pm PST on Sunday.

There are two arguments for the account having value. First, of course, is the fact that Netscape is now paying top Digg users to switch over. Netscape is looking for actual users, not accounts, though, and so there’s little chance of this account being turned into a valuable income stream at Netscape. Second, high ranking Digg accounts count more than others when they Digg a story, making that story more likely to go to the home page. The account therefore has value, if Digg doesn’t simply turn it off.

This story has, of course, already been put on Digg.

I reported on the the recent news about top Digg users being offered cash by Netscape to move over to their competing platform earlier this month – Jason Calacanis offers to buy out each top digg users for 12,000 year.

However, YouTube channels may be more valuable than DIGG profiles according to Celulares who left a comment at TechCrunch about this story.

Something I find even more valuable are YouTube channels. There are a couple of kids who are very influencial on youtube and have manage to get hundreds of thousands of views and more importantly channel subscribers. I even went about offering some money for an account in the top ten who only has one video uploaded.

I think this is more of a publicity stunt as I can’t imagine anyone is going to pay for an account that means little or nothing without the person who created it.