Category Archives: Politicians

Which of the Living U.K. Prime Ministers 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.

Margaret Thatcher’s recent passing has made this seem a timely list. Here we’re looking at the PeekScores of the four living (current and past) British Prime Ministers. We’re comparing not their effectiveness as statesmen, nor their popularity while serving, but instead their current presences and impacts here in cyberspace.

The current PM quite comfortably leads the pack, which surprised us a bit as we thought this list’s runner up might be on top. What are your thoughts?

Rank Picture Name Tenure PeekScore
1

David Cameron 2010 – Present 9.74 / 10.00
2

Tony Blair 1997 – 2007 8.88 / 10.00
3

Gordon Brown 2007 – 2010 8.29 / 10.00
4

John Major 1990 – 1997 7.99 / 10.00

What Sizes are the Digital Footprints of the Living First Ladies?

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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.

Our current First Lady is a Harvard Law School educated attorney, and our last Secretary of State had previously been a First Lady for 8 years, and is still spoken of as something of a contender for the presidency. These are women who have accomplished a great deal more in their lives than merely marrying powerful men.

But, while acknowledging their many accomplishments, what the seven women listed below have in common is that they were each the First Lady of the United States at one time or another. What we’re doing here with them is what we always do, which is seeing how they measure and stack up when comparing their various impacts and prominences here in cyberspace (as detailed above).


The two women topping our list will surprise no one, the first — as noted above — is one of the most powerful women in the world, and the other is about as famous a figure as we have in our country right now (famous, even by First Lady standards).

Rank Picture Name Years Spent as First Lady PeekScore
1

Hillary Clinton 1993 – 2001 10.00 / 10.00
2

Michelle Obama 2009 – Present 10.00 / 10.00
3

Laura Bush 2001 – 2009 8.19 / 10.00
4

Barbara Bush 1989 – 1993 8.01 / 10.00
5

Nancy Reagan 1981 – 1989 7.91 / 10.00
6

Rosalynn Carter 1977 – 1981 7.22 / 10.00

Which of Time’s Candidates for 2012′s Person of the Year 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.

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
1

Barack Obama Newly re-elected President of the United States 10.00 / 10.00
2

Hillary Clinton U.S. Secretary of State 10.00 / 10.00
3

Mitt Romney 2012 GOP candidate for president 10.00 / 10.00
4

Bill Clinton Former President of the United States 9.62 / 10.00
5

Paul Ryan 2012 GOP candidate for vice president 9.55 / 10.00
6

Jay-Z Mega-successful rapper and entrepreneur 9.38 / 10.00
7

Bashar al-Assad President of Syria 9.32 / 10.00
8

E.L. James Author of Fifty Shades of Grey 9.30 / 10.00
9

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
10

Michael Phelps Olympic swimmer, and as of 2012 the most decorated Olympian of all time 9.16 / 10.00
11

Jon Stewart Host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show 9.03 / 10.00
12

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
13

Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel 8.87 / 10.00
14

Michael Bloomberg New York City mayor 8.85 / 10.00
15

Joe Biden Vice President of the United States 8.83 / 10.00
16

Stephen Colbert Host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report 8.80 / 10.00
17

John Roberts Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 8.77 / 10.00
18

Kim Jong Un Supreme Leader of North Korea 8.71 / 10.00
19

Tim Cook CEO of Apple, Inc. 8.68 / 10.00
20

Karl Rove American political consultant and policy advisor 8.54 / 10.00
21

Psy Korean rapper responsible for “Gangnam Style,” the most viewed YouTube video of all time 8.53 / 10.00
22

Mario Draghi President of the European Central Bank 8.28 / 10.00
23

Ai Weiwei Chinese contemporary artist 8.23 / 10.00
24

Thein Sein President of Myanmar 8.19 / 10.00
25

Mohamed Morsi President of Egypt 8.14 / 10.00
26

Sandra Fluke Women’s rights activist 8.13 / 10.00
27

Marissa Mayer CEO of Yahoo! 8.11 / 10.00
28

Mo Farah Track and Field athlete and Olympic gold medalist 8.11 / 10.00
29

Roger Goodell Commissioner of the National Football League 8.10 / 10.00
30

Sheldon Adelson CEO, Las Vegas Sands Corporation 8.04 / 10.00
31

Malala Yousafzai 15 year old Pakistani anti-Taliban activist and blogger, shot by the Taliban in October 8.03 / 10.00
32

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
33

Xi Jinping Leader of the Communist Party of China 7.83 / 10.00
34

Bo Xilai Disgraced Chinese former politician 7.82 / 10.00
35

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (of Pussy Riot) Russian political activist, and member of punk rock collective Pussy Riot 7.81 / 10.00
36

Aung San Suu Kyi Chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma 7.49 / 10.00

The Digital Footprints of Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year

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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.

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 – and 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 if the Year” issue inevitably upon us, it seemed timely (no pun) to do a PeekScore list of this nature.

The ten names below are the ten still living recipients of this sometimes dubious honor who have – at this moment in time – made the most profound impacts in cyberspace. We’ve measured them on our PeekScore scale, not to assess their values as humans, nor even their respective degrees of global fame in the grandest senses, but to gauge their digital footprints; a concept you can find elaborated upon in the above disclaimer, and more in depth by clicking through here.

Rank Picture Name Year(s) PeekScore
1

Barack Obama 2008 10.00 / 10.00
2

George W. Bush 2000 & 2004 10.00 / 10.00
3

Mark Zuckerberg 2010 9.64 / 10.00
4

Vladimir Putin 2007 9.63 / 10.00
5

Bill Clinton 1992 & 1998 9.62 / 10.00
6

Ben Bernanke 2009 9.08 / 10.00
7

Rudolph Giuliani 2001 8.85 / 10.00
8

Jeffery Bezos 1999 8.08 / 10.00
9

David Ho 1996 7.36 / 10.00
10

Andrew Grove 1997 7.22 / 10.00

Which United States Supreme Court Justice 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.

The United States government operates under a “separation of powers” model, with the standard and distinct branches that description suggests; executive, legislative, and judicial. Here at the PeekScore blog we’ve done various assessments and comparisons of members of those first two branches (such as some executives being looked at here), but up until now we’ve left the judges alone.

It seemed as good a moment as any to take a look at where these esteemed women and men stand here on our beloved internet. This is not an assessment nor comparison of their abilities as judges, but instead a look at the respective sizes of their impacts here in cyberspace (their digital footprints, a concept explained in brief in the above disclaimer or more in depth by clicking through here).

The results surprised us a bit. Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Year appointed PeekScore
1

Antonin Scalia 1986 9.21 / 10.00
2

John Roberts 2005 8.77 / 10.00
3

Clarence Thomas 1991 8.23 / 10.00
4

Anthony Kennedy 1988 8.08 / 10.00
5

Stephen Breyer 1994 8.05 / 10.00
6

Sonia Sotomayor 2009 8.01 / 10.00
7

Elena Kagan 2010 8.00 / 10.00
8

Samuel Alito 2006 7.48 / 10.00
9

Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1993 7.33 / 10.00