Justin Kan #1 on Business 2.0's Most Influential People List (and i am responsible)

I couldn't believe they allowed voting at all. Even if it wasn't hackable, it would still produce garbage results. <i>Time</i> tried this about ten years ago, and Attaturk won in almost every category, including, iirc, best athlete of the 20th century, and best poet.

Business 2.0 has implemented a flash based voting system to pick the Most Influential people(from their list!) .The sleek interface looks great, but actionscript that runs behind the scene is amazingly lame.<p>Exercising democracy is far more better than,editors handpicking a top 10 list over a pizza.But if the system built to exercise democracy is lame, then all your fun are belong to coders!<p>Hacking/breaking/gaming a live system is not really a cool thing to do. But what if the target is too lazy and careless ?

I'm surprised it's not Ron Paul