Steve Rubel and a few other influential bloggers received an audience with Bill Gates.
I can see the post germinating in Seth Finkelstein's mind even as I type this. He's convinced this Z- lister that there's a new set of gatekeepers. However, I never bought into the blogging triumphalism, so I'm not that broken up about the situation. I normally wouldn't comment but this just seemed like the punctuation to his riff. Besides, discerning new media consumers need to keep the new/old context in mind.
Not to mention the whole Arrington, Jarvis, Winer, Denton, Calacanis, Denton, scrum. At least they're entertaining gatekeepers.