Monday, January 06, 2003 02:31 PM

The Wired Rave Award nominees for 2003 are in (aka "renegade of the year"). Want my opinion?

Miguel de Icaza - Mono Project (Ximian). Open Source .Net - Cool... Maybe.
Senator John McCain - Arizona (R). A good guy with good policies. But renegade? Nah.
Stephen Wolfram - Scientist and CEO, Wolfram Research, Author, A New Kind of Science. One heck of a smart guy, and Mathematica is a tour de force. But the idea that the entire world can best be understood as cellular automata is flawed, and the book sucks (unlike a lot of reviewers, I read it). I say not even.
David Neeleman - CEO, JetBlue Airways. A successful company and IPO. Renegade of the year? Huh?
Sherron Watkins - former Vice President of Corporate Development, Enron. The whistleblower, and one of Time's Persons of the Year. A decent symbol for renegation. Yes.