Vancouver-based NowPublic is ostensibly all about citizen journalism. But since Guy Kawasaki sold Truemors to it and signed up as an advisor, it's becoming better known for publishing flattering lists of "influencers," supposedly ranking them according to various social media metrics. The first "Most Public" list focused on New York, but a new list for the Valley and San Francisco is "coming soon." And by virtue of being included in the latest edition, we received an early copy as a press release. Who comes out on top? Ubiquitous attention slut Robert Scoble, naturally. Full list after the jump.

Valley marketer Louis Gray and Outside the Beltway editor James Joyner agree: Blog links account for less and less of the traffic to their sites, falling an order of magnitude behind search engines. "Search engines, social media sites, and aggregators delivered much more traffic than links from very popular blogs such as Scobleizer, TechCrunch, and Micro Persuasion," Joyner summarizes from Gray's data. His theory? The geeks who read blogs all day in 2003 are now following Twitter and other speedier media.

Blogger Louis Gray spends another 1,185 words on the subject, but the headline says it all — and describes him, too. [Louisgray.com]