Acch I think I was blowing off steam for the most part.

I immediately get crabby when I see a list of men and the word "technology" and "cool" figures in the title. Me = bull. Lists = red flag.

If I could, I would love to dethrone list-making as a means of assigning value to any practice. This includes top tens, best of's and most populars. I would allow lists of ingredients that's a different idea.

Maybe if I understood your list not as: 'here are some people doing cool stuff', but more as 'here are some human ingredients that combine to form the fascinating stew that is Montreal's tech/activist scene' I would feel less crabby.

Remember when we got loaded and argued about meritocracies. Lists as value judgments are part of the meritocratic system. Lists as recipes are part of creative enterprise.

Ironically, most of my ladies don't have very jazzy (or any) urls, which is partly maybe why they arent out at BARcamps or yulblogs. A lot of what counts as media in community dev circles still makes use of paper and photocopiers.