A few months ago The Huffington Post launched a reader participation contest to choose the “innovators, visionaries, and leaders who are harnessing the power of new media to reshape their fields and change the world.”

Now, 1.7 million reader votes later, the original list of 100 “game changers” has been pared down to the “Ultimate 10 Game Changers” — a dream team, if you will.

The most intriguing of the group — certainly from the perspective of a blog about “social media for the media pro” — might be Pete Cashmore (photo), founder of social media web site Mashable, which HuffPost describes as dishing out “digestible bites of tech wisdom that appeal to both nerds and newbies, highlighting not only what’s new on Twitter, Facebook, and the social Web, but what to do with it.”

Another familiar name to social media types is Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Maybe not as well-known is Bob Bowman, mastermind of Major League Baseball’s MLB.TV, which streams almost every ballgame live to subscribers, generating nearly $400 million in revenue last year.