Yahoo! News profiles the provocative

Are you the sort of someone who lives and breathes the online world? Who’s doing something with the medium that’s challenging and different? The kind of person who likes to stir things up? Maybe a bit of an agent provocateur?

If you think those descriptions apt—and if you’re regular reader here, you probably do—you may be one of the “People of the Web.”

“People of the Web” is a new series of profiles by Yahoo! News, highlighting the adventurers, pot-stirrers, pioneers, firebrands, loose cannons, privateers, mischief-makers and assorted wise-acres making waves, while making it, on the Web right now.

Recent “People of the Web” profiles include former “Growing Pains” sitcom start turned online evangelist, Kirk Cameron, Caleb Shickles, the creator of “Hug Nation,” and Josh Wolf the journalist (or is he really an activist?) who served jail time for refusing to reveal his sources to a grand jury.

You or someone you know could be next. To suggest a “People of the Web” profile, visit the POTW feedback page. And be sure to join MyBlogLog before you visit POTW. That way, even if you’re not chosen to be profiled, everyone will know you’ve been there—it’s like leaving a little link bait everywhere you go. (That’s me in the upper left.)

—Michael Mattis