One of the architects of the blogosphere, Nick Denton has been written off more times in the last year than Hillary Clinton, but the scourge of the self-inflated and pompous just keeps on going. After he registered a sizable drop in page views last fall for his flagship site, Gawker, The New York Times was quick to trumpet his demise. He hit back with his single biggest coup—a leaked Scientology video of Tom Cruise—and his figures shot right back up, with a quarter of a billion page views in January alone. With that kind of resurrection, plus a staff of 130 and revenues close to $12m, it's
clear that rumors of his demise are premature. (Previously 22nd)