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The Digital Footprints of the Judges and Hosts of The Voice

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What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

The American version of the enormously popular TV show / singing contest, The Voice, is now nearing the end of its fourth season. Inspired by the hubbub surrounding this occasion, we’ve put the program’s past and current hosts and judges through their PeekScore paces; measuring and comparing their assorted presences and impacts here on the Web, or if you prefer their “digital footprints” (a concept explained in this entry’s header and more in depth here).

Rank Picture Name Bio PeekScore
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Christina Aguilera (sitting out the 4th season, apparently returning for the 5th) Multi-platinum singer of such megahits as “Beautiful,” “Genie in a Bottle,” and “What a Girl Wants” 10.00 / 10.00
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Adam Levine Lead singer for Maroon 5 9.35 / 10.00
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Christina Milian Singer and actress, and the star of films such as “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” 9.18 / 10.00
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Blake Shelton Country star 9.14 / 10.00
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Usher (4th season only, so far) Multi-platinum singer of such hits as “Nice & Slow” and “Confessions Part II” 8.99 / 10.00
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Shakira (4th season only, so far) Colombian born singer, songwriter, producer, and dancer 8.72 / 10.00
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Carson Daly Former host of MTV’s Total Request Live 8.30 / 10.00
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Cee Lo Green (sitting out the 4th season, apparently returning for the 5th) Multi-platinum singer, songwriter, and producer 8.11 / 10.00

The PeekScores of the Hosts of Saturday Night Live’s 38th Season

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What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

On May 18th NBC’s Saturday Night Live will wrap its 38th season. Now that all of the remaining episodes’ guests have been booked and announced, we decided it would be fun to put all of this season’s hosts to the PeekScore test and compare their digital footprints (a concept explained in brief in this entry’s header, and more in depth here).

Our first place finisher will surprise few, if any, who are at all acquainted with this thing we call the internet. The enormously popular SNL host who is the runner up on our list isn’t bound to raise many eyebrows for his lofty spot either. But after that, there are some surprises to be found. Check it out.

Rank Picture Name Hosted PeekScore
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Justin Bieber February 9, 2013 10.00 / 10.00
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Justin Timberlake March 9, 2013 10.00 / 10.00
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Bruno Mars October 20, 2012 9.99 / 10.00
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Anne Hathaway November 10, 2012 9.94 / 10.00
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Jennifer Lawrence January 19, 2013 9.47 / 10.00
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Ben Affleck May 18, 2013 9.40 / 10.00
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Daniel Craig October 6, 2012 9.38 / 10.00
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Adam Levine January 26, 2013 9.35 / 10.00
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt September 22, 2012 9.25 / 10.00
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Jamie Foxx December 8, 2012 9.25 / 10.00
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Seth MacFarlane September 15, 2012 9.02 / 10.00
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Kevin Hart March 2, 2013 8.69 / 10.00
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Kristen Wiig May 11, 2013 8.51 / 10.00
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Louis CK November 3, 2012 8.42 / 10.00
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Vince Vaughn April 13, 2013 8.35 / 10.00
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Christoph Waltz February 16, 2013 8.32 / 10.00
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Jeremy Renner November 17, 2012 8.31 / 10.00
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Melissa McCarthy April 6, 2013 8.30 / 10.00
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Zach Galifianakis May 4, 2013 8.29 / 10.00
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Christina Applegate October 13, 2012 8.27 / 10.00
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Martin Short December 15, 2012 8.09 / 10.00

Which of the Living Children of U.S. Presidents has the Largest Digital Footprint?

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What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

Some have followed in the political footsteps of their famous fathers (and at least one really did so), some have maintained public lives in other ways — as philanthropists, activists, broadcasters, and such — and others still have chosen to live their lives more quietly. But the one thing they all have in common is that they are each the offspring of a gentleman who at one time held the highest elected office in the U.S. government.

We’re not judging nor grading their accomplishments, but instead we’re looking at their assorted presences and impacts here on the Web (their “digital footprints,” as it were, a concept outlined in this entry’s header, and more in depth here).

There was little doubt who we’d find atop this list, as — whatever your opinion of him — even five years out of office, his is a name which is mentioned often. His impactfulness in the world at large translates fully to cyberspace. But the order of the names which follow may hold some surprises for you. They did for us.

Rank Picture Name Child of which president? PeekScore
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George W. Bush George H. W. Bush 10.00 / 10.00
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Chelsea Clinton Bill Clinton 8.13 / 10.00
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Jeb Bush George H. W. Bush 8.10 / 10.00
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Jenna Bush George W. Bush 8.00 / 10.00
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Caroline Kennedy John F. Kennedy 7.97 / 10.00
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Barbara Bush George W. Bush 7.95 / 10.00
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Sasha Obama Barack Obama 7.80 / 10.00
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Malia Obama Barack Obama 7.64 / 10.00
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Michael Reagan Ronald Reagan 7.27 / 10.00
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Ron Reagan Ronald Reagan 7.18 / 10.00
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Amy Carter Jimmy Carter 7.15 / 10.00
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Neil Bush George H. W. Bush 7.10 / 10.00
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Lynda Bird Johnson Robb Lyndon Johnson 7.05 / 10.00
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Marvin Bush George H. W. Bush 7.05 / 10.00
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Tricia Nixon Cox Richard Nixon 7.04 / 10.00
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower Richard Nixon 7.03 / 10.00
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Dorothy Bush Koch George H. W. Bush 7.02 / 10.00
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Luci Baines Johnson Lyndon Johnson 6.99 / 10.00
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Patti Davis Ronald Reagan 6.94 / 10.00
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John Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower 6.15 / 10.00

Which of the Past Decade’s Oscar Hosts has the Largest PeekScore?

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What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

And here is yet another PeekScore list to tie-in with the 85th Academy Awards (you can see the first entry – wherein we rank the acting nominees – here, and the follow-up where we look at the directing nominees here). This time around we’re focusing not on the honored films but instead on the ceremony itself. This entry is looking at and comparing the hosts of the last 10 Oscar ceremonies with the host of the ceremony which is just around the corner, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane.

As always, we’re not here to grade these men and women on their hosting skills, nor even their general fame or notoriety. We’re simply calculating and reporting on where these folks stand in terms of the impact they’re each making here in cyberspace. While they were considered lackluster hosts by the most charitable of assessments at the time, here in the ether our number one and number two entries (2011′s co-hosts) leave a mighty footprint.

Rank Picture Name Year(s) Hosted PeekScore
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Anne Hathaway 2011 10.00 / 10.00
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James Franco 2011 9.52 / 10.00
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Ellen Degeneres 2007 9.49 / 10.00
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Alec Baldwin 2010 9.27 / 10.00
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Chris Rock 2005 9.22 / 10.00
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Hugh Jackman 2009 9.11 / 10.00
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Jon Stewart 2006, 2008 9.03 / 10.00
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Seth MacFarlane 2013 9.02 / 10.00
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Steve Martin 2003, 2010 8.72/ 10.00
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Billy Crystal 1990-1993, 1997-98, 2000, 2004, 2012 8.35 / 10.00

Which of Time’s Candidates for 2012′s Person of the Year Has the Largest Digital Footprint?

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In 1927, Time Magazine selected transatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh as their first ever “Man of the Year” (a distinction later made less blatantly politically wrong and renamed “Person of the Year”). Since then they have annually selected a person – or sometimes an object, concept, or group of people – that they believe “for better or for worse” has had the greatest impact on that year’s events. From Martin Luther King, Jr. to Adolph Hitler, from Mark Zuckerberg to Pope John Paul II to the “The Middle Americans” their selections have run the gamut from the clearly deserved to the esoteric, and have frequently been the stuff of controversy. With yet another year upon this planet coming to a close, and another “Person of the Year” issue inevitably upon us, it seemed a good idea to put Time’s short-list of this year’s “hopefuls” (click highlighted link to see) to the PeekScore test.

The non-human and/or non-specific human nominees deserve a mention: The Higgs Boson, The Mars Rover, and Undocumented Immigrants. They are not reflected in the list below, as PeekYou doesn’t yet – and indeed may never – index particles or unmanned space vehicles, and the last is of course a large group of individuals (who, it could be noted, may by their very nature never find their way to PeekYou).

This is not a measurement of the likelihood of any one of these people being selected by Time’s editorial staff (an announcement which is to be made only a couple of days from when we’re posting this), nor is it a measurement of their greatness, nor even their fame and/or infamy in the world at large. This is a look at the degrees to which each of these men and women are impactful here in cyberspace. It is, if you will, a look at their digital footprints; a concept you will find explained in brief above, and more in depth by clicking through here.

What were some of your favorite stories from this year? Any 2012 luminaries we overlooked? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Served PeekScore
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Barack Obama Newly re-elected President of the United States 10.00 / 10.00
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Hillary Clinton U.S. Secretary of State 10.00 / 10.00
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Mitt Romney 2012 GOP candidate for president 10.00 / 10.00
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Bill Clinton Former President of the United States 9.62 / 10.00
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Paul Ryan 2012 GOP candidate for vice president 9.55 / 10.00
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Jay-Z Mega-successful rapper and entrepreneur 9.38 / 10.00
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Bashar al-Assad President of Syria 9.32 / 10.00
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E.L. James Author of Fifty Shades of Grey 9.30 / 10.00
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Chris Christie New Jersey governor who made headlines for his open praise of the president, on the eve of election day, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy 9.21 / 10.00
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Michael Phelps Olympic swimmer, and as of 2012 the most decorated Olympian of all time 9.16 / 10.00
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Jon Stewart Host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show 9.03 / 10.00
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Felix Baumgartner Set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres, breaking the speed of sound while doing so, on October 14, 2012 8.97 / 10.00
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Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel 8.87 / 10.00
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Michael Bloomberg New York City mayor 8.85 / 10.00
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Joe Biden Vice President of the United States 8.83 / 10.00
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Stephen Colbert Host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report 8.80 / 10.00
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John Roberts Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 8.77 / 10.00
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Kim Jong Un Supreme Leader of North Korea 8.71 / 10.00
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Tim Cook CEO of Apple, Inc. 8.68 / 10.00
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Karl Rove American political consultant and policy advisor 8.54 / 10.00
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Psy Korean rapper responsible for “Gangnam Style,” the most viewed YouTube video of all time 8.53 / 10.00
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Mario Draghi President of the European Central Bank 8.28 / 10.00
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Ai Weiwei Chinese contemporary artist 8.23 / 10.00
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Thein Sein President of Myanmar 8.19 / 10.00
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Mohamed Morsi President of Egypt 8.14 / 10.00
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Sandra Fluke Women’s rights activist 8.13 / 10.00
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Marissa Mayer CEO of Yahoo! 8.11 / 10.00
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Mo Farah Track and Field athlete and Olympic gold medalist 8.11 / 10.00
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Roger Goodell Commissioner of the National Football League 8.10 / 10.00
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Sheldon Adelson CEO, Las Vegas Sands Corporation 8.04 / 10.00
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Malala Yousafzai 15 year old Pakistani anti-Taliban activist and blogger, shot by the Taliban in October 8.03 / 10.00
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Gabby Douglas Olympic gold medalist, and the first African-American in Olympic history to become the individual all-around gymnastics champion 8.02 / 10.00
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Xi Jinping Leader of the Communist Party of China 7.83 / 10.00
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Bo Xilai Disgraced Chinese former politician 7.82 / 10.00
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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (of Pussy Riot) Russian political activist, and member of punk rock collective Pussy Riot 7.81 / 10.00
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Aung San Suu Kyi Chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma 7.49 / 10.00