Here's a shameless bid for user interaction. A PR friend writes:

I was thinking about [withheld]'s email about…media people who are influential, and I was thinking to myself that I am horribly out of touch with that whole thing. I'm stuck back in the days of … Esther Dyson, John Dvorak, Stuart Alsop… but I imagine there gotta be new ones?

So what do you all think? Who are the leading minds of our generation, in terms of tech, buzz and culture? I do have some ideas of my own, but I'd like to hear what you think first. Please comment.