AGE: 41
OCCUPATION: Owner of Gawker Media, managing editor of Gawker.com
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
PRO: Blogs rule the world, and Denton rules the world of blogs. Gawker, Defamer, Idolator, Fleshbot, Jalopnik — dude's got blogs like a dog has fleas.
CON: Ah, but the blog-pire, like the Wasteland, has no true ruler. Readers may be wearying of Gawker's signature snark, which has been replicated everywhere. Old-media revanchists are gleefully writing Denton's epitaph already. Also, when there's just as much gossip about your publication as there is in it, you've got a problem: Denton's sites gush disaffected staffers and rivers of bad blood — something's wrong.