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Which of the Web’s Most Prominent MMA Fighters 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.

If you were to lurk around Twitter, sniffing for MMA fighters, you’d quickly know that the gentle, poetic brutes of MMA (or, Mixed Martial Arts) have plenty to say in 140 characters or less. Their various whereabouts, and their thoughts and musings on any number of subjects are all well documented on websites, blogs, Facebooks, and MySpaces, scattered across the ether, and their gratitude to their fans is perpetually being expressed in nearly real time. Simply, MMA is a sport where the athletes are incredibly active online, where the sport’s rapid ascent in popularity is clearly partially attributable to the accessibility of its fighters (both online and off), and where – among its athletes – a large digital footprint is the norm.

MMA’s success to date has been (beyond the desire on makind’s part to witness such contests) attributable to the accessibility of MMA’s fighters, both via public appearances and on the internet. It is no coincidence that MMA’s recent, rapid ascent in popularity has corresponded with social media’s rise to ubiquity. Like the purveyors of other formerly niche – and now mainstream – concerns before them, both the promoters and fighters of MMA have masterfully utilized the internet to find the audience who would most be interested in what they have to offer. The individual fighters have been able to establish and control their own backstories, bios, and public personae, and really build the sport as one first and foremost driven by personalities, and one where fans will become personally invested in their favorite fighters as people, and not merely as athletes.

So, with this in mind, we’re taking this opportunity to look at those MMA fighters – both active and retired – who are most prominent here in the ether, and pit them against each other not in the hexagon, but instead on one of our PeekScore lists. This isn’t about their varying degrees of dominance in the ring, nor even about their celebrities out in the world at large. Here we’re comparing their prominences and impacts in cyberspace, or their “digital footprints” (a concept you will find explained in brief above, or more in depth by clicking through here).

Rank Picture Name Served PeekScore
1

Georges St-Pierre St-Pierre is the current UFC Welterweight Champion. 9.07 / 10.00
2

Anderson Silva Silva is the current UFC Middleweight Champion. 8.80 / 10.00
3

Chuck Liddell Now retired, this UFC Hall of Famer recently appeared on Dancing with the Stars. 8.50 / 10.00
4

Randy Couture Now retired from MMA, Couture is a three-time former UFC Heavyweight, and two-time former UFC Light-Heavyweight champion. 8.38 / 10.00
5

Vitor Belfort Vitor is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. 8.30 / 10.00
6

Jon Bones Jones Jon Bones Jones is the current UFC Light-Heavyweight Champion. 8.21 / 10.00
7

Tito Ortiz Along with Couture and Liddell, Ortiz is one of the sport’s earliest stars. A former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, he is now the CEO of the Punishment Athletics MMA equipment and clothing line. 8.20 / 10.00
8

Junior dos Santos Junior dos Santos is currently ranked the number one heavyweight in the world, by numerous outlets. 8.19 / 10.00
9

Chael Sonnen Sonnen was an NCAA Division I All-American wrestler at the University of Oregon, and a silver medalist at the 2000 Greco-Roman World University Championships. 8.18 / 10.00
10

BJ Penn Penn was the first non-Brazilian winner of the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship in the black-belt category, as well as a former UFC Lightweight Champion and UFC Welterweight Champion. 8.15 / 10.00
11

Forrest Griffin Forrest is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. 8.14 / 10.00
12

Jason Miller The flamboyant “Mayhem” Miller is the host of MTV’s Bully Beatdown. 8.11 / 10.00
13

Wanderlei Silva Silva is the former IVC Light heavyweight Champion, former PRIDE Middleweight Champion, and the 2003 PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix Tournament Winner. 8.06 / 10.00
14

Rashad Evans Evans was the heavyweight winner of The Ultimate Fighter 2. 8.06 / 10.00
15

Quinton Jackson Rampage Jackson is a former UFC Light-Heavyweight title holder, and one of the stars of that A-Team movie which came out a year, or so, ago. 8.05 / 10.00
16

Roy Nelson The winner of Season 10 of Spike TV’s The Ultimate Fighter, Nelson was also the last International Fight League Heavyweight Champion. 8.04 / 10.00
17

Rich Franklin Franklin is the former UFC Middleweight Champion. 8.03 / 10.00
18

Demian Maia Maia currently fights as a welterweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. 7.99 / 10.00
19

Rodrigo Nogueira Former Lineal Mixed Martial Arts Champions 7.93 / 10.00
20

Frankie Edgar Edgar has never been finished in MMA competition. 7.92 / 10.00
21

Mauricio Rua Rua is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. 7.81 / 10.00
22

Urijah Faber Faber is the former WEC featherweight champion. 7.65 / 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

The TV Hosts with the Largest Digital Footprints

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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.

This is another of those PeekScore lists which does precisely what it says on the tin. The subject line says it all. Well, nearly. We’re only looking at American TV show hosts, but beyond that we believe you know the deal. This is not an assessment of the relative fames or fortunes of these men and women, nor is it an analysis of their Nielsen ratings. This is a look at this group’s relative impacts here in cyberspace (their digital footprints, a concept you can find explained in brief above, or more in depth by clicking through here).

We have daytime, nighttime, syndicated, network, cable, and all sorts of shows that can be hosted represented below. Are there any names missing you would have expected to see? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Show PeekScore
1

Oprah Winfrey Oprah’s Next Chapter 10.00 / 10.00
2

Heidi Klum Project Runway 9.99 / 10.00
3

David Letterman The Late Show with David Letterman 9.60 / 10.00
4

Tyra Banks Tyra 9.59 / 10.00
5

Ellen DeGeneres The Ellen Show 9.50 / 10.00
6

Ryan Seacrest American Idol 9.20 / 10.00
7

Jay Leno The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 9.10 / 10.00
8

Jimmy Fallon Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 9.00 / 10.00
9

Conan O’Brien Conan 8.90 / 10.00
10

Stephen Colbert The Colbert Report 8.80 / 10.00

The Digital Footprints of the World’s Most Powerful Women

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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.

Forbes has very recently released their annual list of the 10 women they believe to be the most powerful in the world. You can head over to Forbes to get more insight into what criteria they used to determine their findings, but – to the degree that such a thing as “power” is quantifiable – we will say that their list seems to be ballpark accurate, if nothing else. These are surely 10 enormously influential women. While we hope to one day live in a world where there’s no novelty whatsoever to the notion of a woman in a position of power, influence, or leadership, we at this time have no problem acknowledging those women who have achieved and/or gained such statuses on the world stage.

Anyway, it’s not our place to rank or compare the various powers of these women, but to instead see how they stack up here in cyberspace. This is a look at their digital footprints, a concept you will find explained in brief in the above disclaimer and more in detail if you click through here.

Are there any women you’re shocked to see included on Forbes’ list? Any women you’re upset to see excluded? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Character PeekScore
1

Hillary Clinton US Secretary of State 10.00 / 10.00
2

Michelle Obama US First Lady 10.00 / 10.00
3

Angela Merkel Chancellor of Germany 9.58 / 10.00
4

Dilma Rousseff President of Brazil 9.09 / 10.00
5

Melinda Gates Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 8.54 / 10.00
6

Sheryl Sandberg COO, Facebook 8.50 / 10.00
7

Christine Lagarde Head of International Monetary Fund 8.37 / 10.00
8

Janet Napolitano US Secretary of Homeland Security 8.07 / 10.00
9

Jill Abramson Executive Editor, The New York Times 7.27 / 10.00
10

Sonia Gandhi President, Indian National Congress Party 7.17 / 10.00

The PeekScores of the Cast of 30 Rock

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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.

NBC’s Emmy winning and critically beloved 30 Rock returns to U.S. TV screens on October 4 for one last, abbreviated seventh season. It seemed a grand idea to, in celebration of this welcome return and lamented farewell, give this bunch the old digital footprint assessment.

Some of the cast, namely the three folks heading up our list, are simply big stars, and are nearly always likely to find themselves atop any chart of this nature. Unlike her two fellow superstars, the show’s creator, Tina Fey, does not actively participate in social media, but is such a large figure in cyberspace her PeekScore required no assistance nor input from her. Her co-star, Alec Baldwin, in addition to being a veteran movie star and general mega-celebrity of long-standing, is also a blogger and general user of the web, and therefore was a shoo-in in the battle to sit atop this here chart.

While the series is less of a megahit and more of a cult concern than many of its biggest fans realize (particularly here in PeekYou‘s hometown of New York, where you’d swear it’s bigger than American Idol), the rest of its cast and crew are all of healthy profiles as well, no doubt attributable to, or at least bolstered by, their association with the program.

Are you sad to see 30 Rock go? Who’s your favorite cast member? Who’d we leave out that you’d like to have seen included? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Character Current PeekScore
1

Alec Baldwin Jack Donaghy 9.53 / 10.00
2

Tina Fey Liz Lemon 9.30 / 10.00
3

Tracy Morgan Tracy Jordan 9.19 / 10.00
4

Judah Friedlander Frank Rossitano 9.05 / 10.00
5

Katrina Bowden Cerie 8.59 / 10.00
6

Jane Krakowski Jenna Maroney 8.57 / 10.00
7



Kevin Brown Dot Com 8.42 / 10.00
8

Jack McBrayer Kenneth Parcell 8.10 / 10.00
9

John Lutz J.D. Lutz 8.09 / 10.00
10

Scott Adsit Pete Hornberger 8.05 / 10.00
11

Keith Powell James “Toofer” Spurlock 8.00 / 10.00
12

Grizz Chapman Grizz 7.30 / 10.00

The Digital Footprints of Apple’s Top Executives

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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.

Clearly, nobody is coming to the PeekScore blog to see what we have to say about Steve Jobs or the somewhat impending occasion of the first anniversary of his passing. As did many throughout the world, we admired the guy and used – and at times even quite liked – his products, and we viewed his death as a loss to the culture.

As a sort of very small (minuscule, really) tribute to his legacy, we’re taking this opportunity to look at the digital footprints of his successor, and the current leadership team over at Apple. Mr. Jobs – who had appeared on a few of our lists here at the PeekScore blog – was assessed consistently by our algorithms as carrying our maximum PeekScore of 10. As he was one of the most powerful and famous men in the western world, that was not surprising. But how much impact has the team who has been leading Apple since his death made here in cyberspace? See below.

Any thoughts on the list below? Any feelings on Mr. Jobs or his products that you’d care to share? Leave us a coment and let us know.

Rank Picture Name Title PeekScore
1

Tim Cook CEO 8.68 / 10.00
2

Jeff Williams Senior Vice President, Operations 8.04 / 10.00
3

Eddy Cue Senior Vice President, Internet Software and Services 7.81 / 10.00
4

Jonathan Ive Senior Vice President, Industrial Design 7.75 / 10.00
5

Craig Federighi Senior Vice President Mac Software Engineering 7.63 / 10.00
6

Scott Forstall Senior Vice President, iOS Software 7.54 / 10.00
7

Pete Oppenheimer Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer 7.32 / 10.00
8

John Browett Senior Vice President, Retail 7.22 / 10.00
9

Bruce Sewell Senior Vice President and General Counsel 7.14 / 10.00
10

Bob Mansfield Senior Vice President, Mac Hardware Engineering 7.07 / 10.00
11

Philip W. Schiller Senior Vice President, Worldwide Product Marketing 7.01 / 10.00
12

Dan Riccio Senior Vice President Hardware Engineering 7.00 / 10.00

The Digital Footprints of the World’s 10 Richest People

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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.

If you’ve read this entry’s title, then you already know full-well what we’ve got in store for you. Below are the ten richest people in the world (as of March ’12), assessed not by the vastness of their fortunes, the expanse of their holdings, nor even the breadth of their philanthropic endeavors. We are comparing these folks solely based upon the sizes of their digital footprints, as quantified by our handy-dandy PeekScore scale (the “digital footprint” concept is explained a bit more in depth at the blog entry found here).

Unsurprisingly, the gentleman topping our list is not only comfortably resting atop this chart, he is endowed with the ultimate PeekScore of 10. Given his nearly incalculable global fame, and especially given his specific association with the very technology many use to access the Web in the first place, his dominance here in cyberspace is a natural.

Any thoughts or comments on this list here? Any surprises for you? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Character PeekScore
1

Bill Gates Founder, Microsoft 10.00 / 10.00
2

Warren Buffett CEO, Berkshire Hathaway 9.03 / 10.00
3

Larry Ellison CEO, Oracle 8.70 / 10.00
4

Eike Batista CEO, EBX Group 8.21 / 10.00
5

Carlos Slim Helú Chairman, Telmex 8.17 / 10.00
6

Bernard Arnault Chairman, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy 8.11 / 10.00
7

Amancio Ortega Chariman, Spanish Inditex 8.03 / 10.00
8

Li Ka-shing Chairman, Hutchison Whampoa Limited and Cheung Kong Holdings 7.87 / 10.00
9

Stefan Persson Chairman, H&M 7.38 / 10.00
10

Karl Albrecht Co-founder, Aldi Stores Ltd. 7.30 / 10.00

The PeekScores of the Biggest Female Pop Stars

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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.

This list is really rather straightforward. Here are ten of today’s most enormous female pop stars – some more veteran, some newer, all current huge sellers, award winners, and headline grabbers – measured and compared not based on the sizes of their record sales, nor the qualities of their recordings, but based upon the sizes of their impacts here on the Net (i.e., their digital footprints, an explanation of which can be found above, or more in depth by clicking through here).

As you may notice, the majority of these superstars find themselves topping out our 1 to 10 PeekScore scale. Given the household name status of them each, this comes as no surprise to us. It should be noted, though, that the order is not arbitrary and is in fact legitimate. Within our score of 10 there are subtle gradations and there’s a little wiggle room at the top. While it’s a VERY close race amongst these divas, this is still an accurate ordering of where things stand today. Whatever the order today or tomorrow, though, it goes without saying that all of these women are far and away, and well and beyond accounted for here in cyberspace.

Are there any female megastars you would want to see on this list? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Major Song PeekScore
1

Jennifer Lopez On The Floor 10.00 / 10.00
2

Lady Gaga Poker Face 10.00 / 10.00
3

Katy Perry California Gurls 10.00 / 10.00
4

Britney Spears Toxic 10.00 / 10.00
5

Taylor Swift Should’ve Said No 10.00 / 10.00
6

Avril Lavigne Girlfriend 10.00 / 10.00
7

Beyoncé Knowles Crazy in Love 10.00 / 10.00
8

Nicki Minaj Super Bass 10.00 / 10.00
9

Rihanna SOS 9.12 / 10.00
10

Adele Rolling in the Deep 9.03 / 10.00

The PeekScores of the Highest Paid Celebrities Under 30

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They’re all under 30, and they’re all worth more than most if not even all of you reading (and certainly we writing). These are the past year’s ten entertainers under the age of 30 most handsomely remunerated for their efforts in being fabulous. Comparing their fortunes and/or their works as actors, musicians, and so forth is the work of other blogs, of course. What we here at the PeekScore blog intend to do with these ten vastly wealthy whipper-snappers is compare their various impacts here on the World Wide Web, as quantified on our PeekScore scale (an explanation of which can be found above, or more in depth by clicking through here).

The folks topping our list are all grade A PeekScore Goliaths, but still there are some slight surprises to be found in the exact order of how things have shaken out.

Any thoughts on the below? Any youthful pop or film stars you have expected to see on a list of this sort? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Age/Past Year’s Earnings PeekScore
1

Taylor Swift 22, $57mil 10.00 / 10.00
2

Justin Bieber 18, $55mil 10.00 / 10.00
3

Lady Gaga 26, $52mil 10.00 / 10.00
4

Katy Perry 27, $45mil 9.99 / 10.00
5

Robert Pattinson 26, $26.5mil 9.98 / 10.00
6

Kristen Stewart 22, $34.5mil 9.96 / 10.00
7

Taylor Lautner 20, $26.5mil 9.54 / 10.00
8

Adele 24, $35mil 9.03 / 10.00
9

Rihanna 24, $53mil 8.81 / 10.00
10

Lil Wayne 29, $27mil 8.70 / 10.00

The PeekScores of the Cast of The Expendables 2

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In 2010, Rocky and Rambo star Sylvester Stallone spearheaded an unabashedly retro motion picture project called The Expendables. Hearkening back to Stallone’s own heyday of double-barreled
excitement and fist-flying thrills and spills, the cast he assembled for the project read as a bit of a Who’s Who? of beloved 80s and 90s actioners. The flick to the surprise of some was a big hit, and so accordingly a sequel is due to be released on August 17.

We here at the PeekScore blog are not equipped to compare body mass, body counts, ass-kickingness, or box office totals. But what we can, nay must, do is compare how these burly silver screen legends (and their female co-star) compare in terms of their impacts here on the web (their “digital footprints,” if you will, a concept you can find explained in brief above or more in depth by clicking through here).

The surprise victor in this battle royale rather neatly illustrates well what the PeekScore establishes first and foremost. Is he the biggest star on the list? Not likely. Is he the best known? What, compared to the former governor of California? Probably not. But, is his name mentioned on the internet constantly and for many, many years now due to his having been the subject of one of one of the all-time best known and oft repeated memes? Well, of course, yes. And as a result, you’d be hard-pressed to think of many whose ongoing prominence is more tied in with their presence specifically on the Web.

Are there any additional 80s action flick giants whose PeekScores you’d like to know? Ask us in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Films PeekScore
1

Chuck Norris Good Guys Wear Black, Delta Force 9.79 / 10.00
2

Arnold Schwarzenegger The Terminator, Predator 9.54 / 10.00
3

Sylvester Stallone Rocky, Rambo 9.47 / 10.00
4

Bruce Willis Pulp Fiction, Die Hard 9.29 / 10.00
5

Jet Li Once Upon a Time in China 9.05 / 10.00
6

Jason Statham The Transporter 8.97 / 10.00
7

Jean-Claude Van Damme Bloodsport, Hard Target 8.76 / 10.00
8

Randy Couture Red Belt 8.38 / 10.00
9

Dolph Lundgren Universal Soldier, The Punisher 8.19 / 10.00
10

Charisma Carpenter The Expendables 8.12 / 10.00