Evan Williams, Cultural Innovator

Wired Magazine is holding its 2001 Rave Awards voting now and Evan Williams, Mr. Blogger, is nominated as a Cultural Innovator against writer David Chase and James Gandolfini (Sopranos), director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), game/film developer Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy), and Thomas Krens, Director of Guggenheim Museums Worldwide. VOTE for EVAN!!

Dave Winer is nominated as a tech renegade; I voted for him over a couple of your kidding nominees (Dean Kamen, Ginger/”IT” and Dmitry Sklyarov, programmer/DMCA victim) and two real challenger, Princeton professor Ed Felten, author of a controversial SDMI paper, and Miguel de Icaza, open source guru and leader of the .NET for Linux Mono project.