The crowd-powered site NowPublic.com, in partnership with the Vancouver Sun, has published its fourth MostPublic Index which identifies the web’s 20 most visible individuals in Vancouver.

I was pleased to find myself on the list at number 13, as well as my colleague at the UBC J-school, adjunct professor David Beers at 19, and my friend Travis Smith at 16.

The list is a veritable who’s who of new media in Vancouver. NowPublic uses a formula to measure influence and “publicness” across four categories, including online visibility, presence on user-generated content and social networking sites, interactivity and accessibility, and presence on microblogging platforms.

NowPublic describes it as a detailed barometer of whose voices are most heard online. In the words of CEO Leonard Brody:

Vancouver, the home of NowPublic, is the Canadian hub for new media and by far one of the most innovative cities in North America.  It is with great pleasure that we team up with the Vancouver Sun to identify and recognize those, locally, who are most impacting the global media landscape.

I contribute from time to time to NowPublic. My wife, Rachel Nixon, is its news director but was not involved in compiling the list.