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This week in The Guardian, the annual MediaGuardian 100  list is chock full of plenty of
talented media people, and includes a number of truly innovative digital types
who are shaping the emerging media landscape.

The
ranking is top heavy with choices from the BBC, and has a smattering of new
media types such as Eileen Gallagher, Chief Executive of  Shed Media, and hails a few personalities like Simon
Cowell, Katie Price and Ant & Dec. I’m not in disagreement with the choices
for this highly influential
people
list, but I do feel there are some people missing.

Toiling
around the fringes of the mainstream media is a busy, creative and
working-hard-in-the-trenches community of small entrepreneurs. Many are ‘doing
their own thing’ when it comes to media, in all the forms it takes. I’ve cherry
picked some folks from my immediate sphere of influence, and some who I think The
Guardian just missed the mark on, because they are a bit more
behind-the-scenes, but are leaders who I think are having an impact on the
emerging media landscape.

Do
note, these choices are entirely my own, and I’d love to hear your
feedback about some of the people you think are rocking the media world these
days. Let’s
applaud them, and celebrate all those who are contributing to an ever-changing information
delivery system, and who are making being informed, being entertained via
whatever form the media medium chooses to take. So
without further ado, please let me present my list of Other Media Peopl:

Music Media People

oOOo Peter Gabriel for
his investment in emerging media companies, including his current project The Filter.

oOOo The Last.FM founders Felix Miller, Martin Stiksel, Michael Breidenbruecker and
Thomas Willomitzer.

Multimedia People

oOOo Jon Gisby,
head of new media at Channel 4, and caretaker of the new £50K 4iP Fund.

oOOo Steve
Taylor, the ideas guy at Carat Media, part of Aegis.

oOOo Katz Kiely,
founding director of Just-B. Productions and the brain’s behind the b.TWEEN
festival.

oOOo Sarah
Platt, mistress of all things video and director of Kinura.com.

oOOo Dr.
Richard Barbrook , media theorist, author and
professor of political science at the University of Westminster.

oOOo Anne-Fay
Townsend, pop cultural blogger and co-founder of BigShinyThing.com.

oOOo Darrell Berry, photographer and
co-founder of BigShinyThing.com, who is slyly documenting London’s nightlife.

oOOo Lloyd Davis, social media master and founder of The Tuttle Club  (also known as the London Social Media Café).

oOOo Daniel
Appelquist, 
who works for Vodaphone, is always a friendly face to see at Mobile Mondays, and had great success in bringing the BBC sponsored Over the Air to London. He is also a contributing author to the new Mobile Internet for Dummies and is also the UK representative for W3.

 oOOo Helen Keegan aka Technokitten, a mobile media specialist who may have the longest history with the mobile industry of anyone working in the industry, in London, given her legacy with Zag Me, that begins waaaay back in the 90s.

oOOo Kieran
Wyatt , who holds the editorial power over selecting what the absolute best
things for Londoners to do each week as the editor of Flavourpill.net.

 Green Media People

oOOo  George Manbiot, author, journalist, and green political
activist.

oOOo Dan
Ilet, a freelance writer and the head of the blog Greenbang.com.

oOOo Tracey
Todhunter, a blogger
who overs practical tips for individuals and
communities for keeping low on carbon. 

oOOo John Grant,
author of The Green Marketing Manifesto.

oOOo Shawn Chamberlain
the dark optimist.

AND:

oOOo
Gordon
MacMillan, the editor of Brand Republic, who kindly allows this Quick Peeks blog
to exist!

…and
many more!

Who
are your favourite Other Media People?

-Lisa

I’m in Manchester this week to attend bTWEEN08, where I’ll be sharing ideas with other digital entrepreneurs from thoughout the UK.

• My agency Hai Media Group is a finalist in the Branding Talent competition at bTWEEN08, and from what I can tell, this may be a bit like The Apprentice, Dragon’s Den and X-Factor all rolled into one for entrepreneur’s in digital media. Along with my media partner Isabella Hu, who’s design portfolio can be seen at Ecolocate.org, we’ll be offering our seed idea for our Rare Fruits campaign concept for Littlewoods. We’ve worked hard together to come up what we think is a client winning proposal to build excitement and customers for littlewoodsdirect.com.

• Facing the Judge’s Panel Who’s our Sir Alan Sugar, Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, Sharon Osbourne, den of talent scouting dragons for this experience? The mentors are:

• Steve Taylor, Director of Innovation, Aegis
• James Estill, Senior Producer, 4Talent
• Nicole Yershon, Director, Innovative Solutions, Ogilvy
• Paul Bennun, Creative Director, Somethin’ else
• Neil Richards, Script writer
• Katz Kiely, Managing Director, Just-b. Productions 

• Shivers & Shakes Yes! We are nervous, but looking forward to the learning experience, and to gaining a lot of valuable creative confidence throughout the week.

• Take a Peek I’ll be peeking around bTWEEN08 and popping in here with updates about what’s happening.

• Follow Me You can also keep track of some of my updates by following lisadevaney on Twitter.

-Lisa