I recently found out from Blog Bookmarker that Nielsen the large TV ratings and media research company has launched, Hey Nielsen!, a social networking site. 
"With Hey Nielsen!, you can vote for your favorite movies and people, influencing the decisions of record companies, directors, and TV networks." Interesting to see this old style company try to get into the Web 2.0 world. I wonder if they are too late.
I looked at the site and they have TV, movies, music, personalities, internet and video games as their categories for ratings. I looked in personalities and found that someone had said, "I believe history will show Johnny Depp to be one of the greatest actors of his time." And you could react to it. 81% so far agreed. However, it seems to me that it we were thinking of Johnny as an actor rather than a personality, they would have put this in movies, or have a actor tab. This category should say, I believe history will show Johnny Depp to be one of the greatest personalities of his time. The readers also said that 52% wanted Joy Behar to be taken of the show. I guess if you were interested in this topic you would know which show.
I guess they have some fine tuning to do. Interesting that they left off politics given the current interest in the US and some other countries.
They cover a lot of blogs under the internet tab. The numbers of voters seem small so far but it is new.
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