- Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang is an American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. She is a social and political conservative who makes frequent guest appearances on national syndicated radio programs and on television networks such as MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and C-SPAN. As well as her written blog, she posts regular video blogs.
- Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10,1963) is a libertarian conservative author and political commentator, distinguished by his often personal style of political analysis, and pioneering achievements in the field of blog journalism. Sullivan is known for his unusual personal-political identity (HIV-positive, gay, self-described conservative often at odds with other conservatives, and practising Roman Catholic).
- Hugh Hewitt
Professor Hewitt is the host of a nationally syndicated radio show heard in more than 70 markets nationwide. He received 3 Emmys during his decade of work as co-host of the week-night television news and public affairs show Life & Times on PBS Los Angeles affiliate KCET-TV. Professor Hewitt was also the host of the PBS Series Searching For God In America, an eight-part show which premiered on PBS in July 1996.
- Michael Yon
Michael Yon is an American author and blogger. He was embedded with the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment (Deuce Four) of the 25th Infantry Division in Mosul, Iraq until the end of its deployment in September 2005. Yon's dispatches were excerpted by several American newspapers, including the "Northwest Guardian", the "Boston Herald", "The Seattle Times", The "Star Tribune", and "The Weekly Standard".
- Atrios
Duncan Bowen Black (born February 18 1972), better known by his pseudonym Atrios, is an American liberal blogger living in Philadelphia. His weblog "Eschaton" is one of the most popular political weblogs, receiving an average of over 100,000 hits every day. Black was also a regular commentator on Air America Radio's "The Majority Report".
- Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He and his wife, Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble , currently work at PodTech.net , a video-podcast startup. He is the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel .
- James Wolcott
James Wolcott (born 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American journalist, known for his critique of contemporary media. Wolcott is the cultural critic for "Vanity Fair" and contributes to "The New Yorker". He also writes a blog. Born in the suburbs of Baltimore, Wolcott attended Maryland's Frostburg State College for two years. From there, he moved to New York City to work at "The Village Voice".
- Doc Searls
Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal , which has been covering the world's fastest-growing operating system since Version 1.0, in 1994. He is a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , perhaps the only book (and probably the only bestseller) that began as a rant on a Web site. He also writes Doc Searls Weblog , which usually ranks well up in Technorati's Top 100 blogs (out of about 2.7 million).
- Roger L. Simon
Roger Lichtenberg Simon is a mystery author, blogger and screenwriter living in California. Simon was nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay of the 1989 film "Enemies, a Love Story". His screen adaptation of "The Big Fix" starred Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, who portrayed hard-boiled private detective Moses Wine. Wine is cynical, hard-edged and also a former 1960s radical.
- Beppe Grillo
Giuseppe Grillo, better known as Beppe Grillo (born July 21, 1948), is an Italian comedian and actor, who also works in theatres and television.
- La Shawn Barber
La Shawn Barber is a black conservative columnist and blogger who lives in the Washington D.C. area. Barber is a native of South Carolina. An alcoholic in her younger years, Barber took a vow of sobriety and abstinence shortly before her thirtieth birthday. She later moved to Washington, D.C. to serve as a legislative correspondent for a Democratic senator. She eventually converted to Christianity, became a political conservative, and pursued writing.
- Mickey Kaus
Mickey Kaus (born 1951) is an American journalist and author best known for writing Kausfiles, a "mostly political" blog featured on Slate.com. Kaus is the author of "The End of Equality" and had previously worked as a journalist for "Newsweek", "The New Republic" and Washington Monthly. Kaus attended Harvard Law School but has never practiced law.
- Kevin Drum
Kevin Drum (born October 19, 1958) is an American political blogger and columnist. He was born in Long Beach, California and now lives in Irvine, California. In 1991 he wed the newly named Marian Drum.
- Velvet Underground
Velvet Underground is an Israeli blogger. Its creator was anonymous and followed meticulously all the recent events in all the newspapers and media arenas in Israel. As she referred to herself by the pseudonym "Velvet" (in hebrew: ולווט) she documented each and every development, and also some behind the scenes actions that took place - such as new personas that are being appointed for key media roles and big media scandals - sometimes exposing them herself.
- James Lileks
Jim is married and has no children that he is aware of. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and a Master of Science in Computer Science. When his first grade class was asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, he was the only one who said "scientist" (in spite of the allure of shiny firetrucks and police cars). He is an avid runner and also enjoys kayaking, xc-skiing, and similar sports.
- Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of ten books. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was sixteen and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in Economics. At twenty-one she became President of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union. In 2003, she ran for governor as an Independent in California's recall election.
- Marc Canter
Type-A, gregarious, white Rasta, social software nerd, father of multimedia.
- Iain Dale
Iain Campbell Dale (born 15 July 1962) is an English Conservative, blogger, author, and presenter on internet TV station, 18 Doughty Street Talk TV, which he co-founded with Stephan Shakespeare. He was the first openly gay Conservative to be selected as a Parliamentary candidate. Dale is author or editor of fourteen political books. He presented "Planet Politics" on Oneword Radio and occasionally appeared on "Sunday Service" on BBC Radio Five Live.
- Joi Ito
Joi Ito , an activist, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has received much recognition for his role as an entrepreneur of Internet and technology companies. He has founded companies such as PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and is the founder and currently the CEO of the venture capital firm, Neoteny Co., Ltd.
- Nick Denton
Nick Denton is the founder and proprietor of Gawker Media. Nick Denton was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times. Denton is openly gay. Denton co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank called "All That Glitters".
- Sam Harris
Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American writer. He is the author of "The End of Faith" (2004), which was inspired by the September 11, 2001 attacks, and which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and "Letter to a Christian Nation" (2006), a rejoinder to the criticism the first book attracted. His articles have appeared in "Newsweek", "The Los Angeles Times", "The Times" of London, and "The Boston Globe".
- Jason Calacanis
Jason McCabe Calacanis is CEO and co-founder of Weblogs Inc., a network of close to 100 widely read blogs including Engadget, Joystiq, Luxist, Gadling and Blogging Baby. Weblogs, Inc. was founded in January of 2004 and spurred the growth of blogs. The company a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. Calacanis, who was appointed a senior vice president of the AOL, maintains editorial supervision of Weblogs.
- Megan McArdle
While working at Ground Zero, she started Live from the WTC, a blog focused on economics, business, and cooking. She may or may not have been the first major economics blogger, depending on whether we are allowed to throw outlying variables such as Brad Delong out of the set. From there it was but a few steps down the slippery slope to freelance journalism.
- Loic Le Meur
Loïc Le Meur is a French serial entrepreneur and blogger. He served as Executive Vice President EMEA at software company Six Apart after merging French blogging company Ublog with Six Apart in July 2004. In late 2006 Le Meur became a public backer of French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and joined Sarkozy's campaign team as an advisor on Internet-related topics.
- Tom Watson
Thomas Anthony Watson (born 8 January 1967) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich East, and was principally known for being the first MP to start a blog. From May 5 to September 6 2006, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence until he resigned from government after urging Tony Blair to resign. Tom Watson was educated at King Charles I school, Kidderminster, …
- Michael Totten
Michael J. Totten is a blogger who writes on politics in the Middle East, regularly reporting first-hand in mainstream publications, Web sites, and his blog, "Michael J. Totten's Middle East Journal". Totten supported the war in Iraq and in an article for the conservative FrontPage Magazine.com entitled "A Liberal's Case for Bush's War" wrote "If you don't join us now, when Saddam's regime falls and Iraqis cheer the US Marines, …
- John Scalzi
John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an author and online writer, best known for his Hugo Award-nominated science fiction novel "Old Man's War", released by Tor Books in January 2005, and for his blog Whatever, at which he has written daily on a number of topics since 1998. He has also written a number of non-fiction books.
- Matt Yglesias
Matt Yglesias (born May 18, 1981) is a popular American political blogger and a prominent voice in the liberal blogosphere. Yglesias attended Harvard University where he studied philosophy. He graduated "magna cum laude" in 2003. He was editor-in-chief of "The Harvard Independent", a weekly newsmagazine, and also wrote for several other campus publications. He is currently a staff writer at "The Atlantic Monthly " magazine.
- Jason Kottke
Jason Kottke (born September 27, 1973) is an American blogger and former web designer currently living in New York City. He designed the popular Silkscreen font which has become widely used in web design and has won a Lifetime Achievement Award as a blogger.
- Donald Luskin
Donald Luskin is Chief Investment Officer for Trend Macrolytics LLC, a consulting firm providing investment strategy and macroeconomics forecasting and research for institutional investors. Luskin is a contributing editor and columnist both for National Review Online (NRO) and SmartMoney.com. His columns touch on investing, economic and political matters. Luskin is a frequent guest on Larry Kudlow's CNBC television show "Kudlow and Company".
- Stephen Pollard
Stephen Pollard is a British author and journalist, currently President of a free-market Brussels-based think tank, the Centre for a New Europe. He writes columns for several publications including "The Times" and the "Daily Mail" and maintains a lively Spectatorblog. He is an alumnus of John Lyon School and Mansfield College, Oxford. Pollard is an advocate of market-based based public service reforms. He is a biographer of David Blunkett.
- Debbie Schlussel
Debbie Schlussel (born April 9, 1969) is an American attorney, a conservative political commentator, a self-announced expert on Islam and a blogger.
- Pz Myers
Paul Zachary "PZ" Myers (born March 9 1957) is an American biology professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris and a science blogger via his blog, "Pharyngula" (previously "Pharyngula.org"). He is currently an associate professor of biology at Morris, works in the field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), and has a particular interest in cephalopods.
- Ross Mayfield
Ross Mayfield is the Chairman, President and co-founder of Socialtext, the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. A noted blogger and industry expert, he is a serial and social entrepreneur. Mayfield has grown Socialtext to over 4,000 customers and served as CEO from 2002-2007. Socialtext is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, SAP Ventures, Intel Capital and Omidyar Network and prominent Silicon Valley angels.
- Bartcop
Bartcop is the pseudonym of "Terry R. Coppage" (born September 1, 1953), a left-wing blogger and internet radio host from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a liberal Democrat, and is known for his intense and often scathing commentary and fierce humor, criticizing George W. Bush and other Republicans, as well as other conservatives.
- Diablo Cody
Diablo Cody is the pseudonym of Brook Busey-Hunt, a Minnesota-based writer and blogger best known for her yearlong foray in the stripping and peep show circuits of Minneapolis, candidly chronicled on her "Pussy Ranch" blog and in her 2006 memoir "Candy Girl: A Year in The Life of an Unlikely Stripper". Cody has also written the forthcoming movie "Juno" and is in pre-production for development of a sitcom.
- Sam Adams
Sam Adams is an elected official in Portland, Oregon in the United States. In 2004 he was elected to the Portland City Council, defeating attorney Nick Fish.
- Martin Fowler
Martin Fowler is a famous author and international speaker on software architecture, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, Patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including Extreme Programming. Martin Fowler started working with software in the early 80's and has written five popular books on the topic of software development (see "Publications"). In March 2000, he became Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, …
- Evan Williams
Evan Williams, born in 1972, a native of Nebraska, is an American entrepreneur who has founded two Internet companies. Williams and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs to make project management software, but parts of the application were used to create Blogger, one of the first web applications for creating and managing blogs. The company survived despite the departure of Hourihan and other employees, and was eventually acquired by Google.
- Anil Dash
Anil Dash (pronounced, born in September 1975) is an early and influential blogger who began his weblog in 1999. Previously an independent technology consultant, and a new media developer for the "Village Voice", Dash was the first employee of, and now works as a Vice President for, Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, TypePad, Vox, and owners of LiveJournal. In 2003, Dash was one of four bloggers featured on the PBS series "Media Matters".