In a follow-up post, he wrote that Google should promote thoughtful or popular posts on Google+, rather than turning a few people into celebrities.  "Why don't we have a list of recent great posts in tech, politics, photography, science, education, entertainment, music, media, economics, etc?" he wrote on his Google+ blog. "Why do we need to focus so much on people?"  Craig Kanalley, a senior editor at The Huffington Post, also spoke out against the list, saying it promotes online celebrity over community.  "It's going to alienate people and lead to an inevitable followers war that can hurt the health of the social network and inflate people's egos," he wrote Saturday, also on his Google+ page.  "As the famous get more followers, the non-featured fall farther behind, and a giant gap is created between the two. This is what happened on Twitter. (In a perfect world, all interact together, around common interests, and there aren't such huge disparities.)"  The Google list includes people from eight categories, from technology to entertainment and a catch-all category called "fun and interesting."  There are some familiar names -- Ashton Kutcher, Dolly Parton, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears are all on the list. But there are some less-well-known people, too, like Maria Popova, who writes a blog called "Brain Pickings," and Richard MacManus from the blog ReadWriteWeb.  From the outside, this debate may seem very high-school and very silly. Some people who aren't on Google's lists surely would like to be. And it could seem whiny that people like Scoble, who just got lots of free publicity from Google, would gripe about being highlighted as "interesting."
Don't call me popular!That seems to be the reaction from the Internet's tech celebrities to a new Google-created list of interesting people to follow on Google+.Robert Scoble, a popular tech pundit