- Seth Godin
Godin graduated from Tufts University in 1982 with a degree in computer science and philosophy, and he earned his MBA in marketing from Stanford Business School. From 1983 to 1986, he worked as a brand manager at Spinnaker Software, where he led the team that developed the first generation of multimedia products, working with such forward-thinking authors as Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Crichton . - Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator in New York City, first at the Manhattan firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and then at the litigation firm he founded, Greenwald, Christoph. Greenwald litigated numerous high-profile and significant constitutional cases in federal and state courts around the country, including multiple First Amendment challenges. - Jeff Jarvis
JEFF JARVIS is former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He was until recently president & creative director of Advance.net , the online arm of Advance Publications. - Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites. - Dave Winer
Dave Winer , 39, has been a commercial software developer, marketer and software demoer since 1979. Winer pioneered the category of outline processing, shipping ThinkTank for the IBM PC, Apple II and Macintosh in 1983 and 1984; Ready for the IBM PC in 1985 and MORE for Macintosh in 1986. MORE won MacUser's first Product of the Year Eddy in 1986. He founded and was president of Living Videotext, Inc., which merged with Symantec in 1987. - 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". - Virginia Postrel
Virginia I. Postrel (born 14 January 1960) is an American political and cultural writer of broadly libertarian, or classical liberal, views. She is best known for her two non-fiction books, "The Future and Its Enemies" and "The Substance of Style". In the former she explains her philosophy, "dynamism," a forward-looking and change-seeking philosophy which generally favors unregulated organization through "spontaneous order". - Tom Watson
Tom Watson (born February 21, 1962 in Yonkers, New York) is an American journalist, entrepreneur and blogger. Watson is Chief Strategy Officer of Changing Our World, a national consulting company he helped to found. At Changing Our World, Watson created onPhilanthropy, an online resource for philanthropy professionals; he often comments on and writes frequently about the intersection of media and philanthropy. - Josh Marshall
Joshua Micah Marshall (born February 15, 1969 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a journalist, blogger and writer. New York Times Magazine christened Marshall "a star" of the blogosphere as the "author of one of the most popular and most respected [blogging] sites." He is also a columnist for "The Hill", a Capitol Hill newspaper. Marshall's work has been the subject of stories by the LA Times, NPR, New York Times Magazine, and Bill Moyers Journal on PBS. - 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". - David Weinberger
David Weinberger (born 1950 in New York) is a technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as "a primer on Internet marketing"). Weinberger's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society. - Rosie O'Donnell
Roseann Theresa "Rosie" O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962 in Bayside, Queens, New York) is an 11-time Emmy Award-winning American talk show host, television personality, comedienne, celebrity blogger, film, television, and stage actress. - Steve Rubel
Steve Rubel is a senior marketing strategist and one of the most influential bloggers in the world, according to Technorati. He currently serves as senior vice president in Edelman's me2revolution practice. Edelman is the largest independent global PR firm. Widely viewed as an expert on conversational marketing, Rubel is often sought out as a speaker and appears frequently in the press. He has been named to several prestigious lists, including: Media Magazine's Media 100, the . . . - Dave Barry
David Barry, Jr. (born July 3, 1947) is a bestselling American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist who wrote a nationally syndicated column for the "The Miami Herald" from 1983 to 2005. - 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. - Ann Althouse
Ann Althouse is an American law professor and blogger. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Althouse has a degree in fine art from the University of Michigan, B.F.A. 1973, and graduated first in her class from New York University School of Law, J.D. 1981. She clerked for Judge Leonard Sand in the Southern District of New York and practised law in the litigation department of Sullivan & Cromwell. Since 1984 Althouse has taught federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, … - 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". - Steve Gilliard
Steve Gilliard was a freelance journalist and left-wing political blogger who ran the website The News Blog. An outspoken and at times controversial figure, he was an influential voice in the leftwing political blogosphere. - Anderson Cooper
Anderson Hays Cooper is an Emmy Award winning American journalist, author, and television personality. He currently works as the primary anchor of the CNN news show "Anderson Cooper 360°". The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City based studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live, on location for breaking news stories. - Ted Rall
Ted Rall , America's hardest-hitting editorial satirist, is President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists . He is also an award-winning political commentator who also works as a syndicated columnist, author, freelance illustrator and (when he gets the chance) radio commentator. This site includes his blog , as well as regular updates of his three cartoons per week , weekly opinion columns and news about his latest projects. - Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman is currently the media columnist for The Nation and MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has also been a contributing editor to Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal, and IntellectualCapital.com. He is the author of Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (HarperCollins, 1992 and Cornell University Press, 2000), winner of the 1992 Orwell Award; Who Speaks for America? - Brian Williams
Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is an anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News", the flagship evening news program of the NBC television network. Williams replaced former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw on December 2, 2004. Previously, Williams was the network's chief correspondent at the White House and host of "The News with Brian Williams" on CNBC and MSNBC. - Howard Kurtz
Howard Alan Kurtz (born 1953, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American journalist, blogger, author and media critic. Kurtz is the primary media writer for the "Washington Post". Kurtz is the host of CNN's "Reliable Sources" and has written for "The New Republic", the "Washington Monthly", and "New York Magazine". He is frequently cited as media writer and expert on media trends. He writes a column for the Post on media trends and issues. - Danah Boyd
Danah Michele Boyd (born 1977), also known as danah boyd, is an American academic, researcher, and blogger best known for media appearances where she speaks about social networking sites such as Friendster and MySpace. Since 2003, she and her research have been quoted on the subject of social networking in dozens of different articles in media sources such as NPR, Wired, MSNBC, "USA Today", and "The O'Reilly Factor".. - Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen and Benjamin Barber present two different perspectives on the role of market liberalization and cultural diversity and representation. Tyler Cowen advocates working within a liberal market paradigm, using UNESCO as a 'marketing tool' for cultural representation and has a positive trade-enhancing vision towards culture. - Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is a founder and Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures. Fred began his career in venture capital in 1987 and he has focused exclusively on information technology investments for the past 16 years. From 1987 to 1996, Fred was first an Associate and then a General Partner at Euclid Partners, an early stage venture capital firm located in New York City. In 1996, Fred co-founded Flatiron Partners. - David Sirota
David Sirota is the bestselling author of the books "Hostile Takeover" (2006) and "The Uprising" (2008). He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network - both nonpartisan organizations. E-mail him at ds@davidsirota.com. - 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". - John Cusack
John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American film actor and writer. - Bruce Sterling
Author, journalist, editor, and critic, Bruce Sterling is also leader of the Viridians an online ecological design community. He has written eight science fiction novels, and edited the anthology Mirrorshades, the definitive document of the cyberpunk movement. He also wrote the non-fiction book The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1992), available electronically on the Internet. - Brad Friedman
Brad Friedman is a US journalist, blogger, actor, director and comedian. Friedman has a BFA from New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts. He can speak using a High British, East London, Cockney, Irish, Yiddish, German and other dialects and has special skills that include Sketch Comedy, Juggling, Unicycling, Driver's License, Various Circus Skills, Baseball, Tennis, Roller & Ice Skating, Basketball, Water & Snow Skiing, Golf, and Stage Combat. - Ana Marie Cox
Ana Marie Cox (born September 23 1972, in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an American author and blogger, who was the founding editor of the political blog Wonkette, and widely considered synonymous with the title. - Ze Frank
Ze Frank (born Hosea Jan Frank on March 31, 1972, first name, rhymes with "say") is an online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker based in Brooklyn, New York. - Will Leitch
Will Leitch (born October 10, 1975 in Mattoon, Illinois) is a writer based in New York City and the founding editor of the Gawker Media sports blog Deadspin. Leitch is a contributor to "The New York Times", "New York" and "Slate", and has published two books, "Catch", a novel, and "Life as a Loser", a memoir. In January 2003, Leitch became a founding editor of "The Black Table", with Eric Gillin, A.J. Daulerio and Aileen Gallagher. - Salam Pax
Salam Pax is a pseudonymous blogger from Iraq whose site "Where is Raed?" (see external links) received notable media attention during (and after) the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The pseudonym itself consists of the two words meaning "peace": Arabic "Salām" and Latin "Pāx". Within his blog, Salam discusses the war, his friends, disappearances of people under the government of Saddam Hussein, and his work as a translator for journalist Peter Maass. - Martin Varsavsky
Martin Varsavsky is an Argentinian/Spanish telecommunications and new media entrepreneur. Born in Buenos Aires on April 26, 1960, to Carlos Varsavsky and Silvia Waisman, Varsavsky attended primary school at the New Model School and the Colegio Nicolás Avellaneda high school. At the age of 16, he moved with his family to the United States as a refugee, following the forced disappearance of his cousin, David Horacio Varsavsky. - Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27 1959 in Yamhill, Oregon) is an American political scientist, author, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist specializing in East Asia. He is currently a columnist for "The New York Times" and previously served as the as The New York Times' Bureau Chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. He has written a number of books on Asia, … - Irina Slutsky
i'm a talker. the good thing is, if i don't know what i'm talking about, i say so. i'm an internet video star. you think i'm kidding? i make a lot of mistakes, and people tell me it all adds up to wisdom some day. my mother died in a car accident from speeding in the rain, so i try to be careful when i drive. but i'm not afraid of death since, well, what can you do about it? i'm getting maudlin' so i'll stop. have a nice day! - Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz (born 1980) is well known blogger and reporter who writes about search engines and search engine marketing. As of January 2007, Schwartz is the editor of Search Engine Roundtable, a popular online news site covering the search engines and search engine marketing. He also is the CEO of RustyBrick, Inc., a New York based web development company, and a news editor at Search Engine Land, a search engine news site founded by Danny Sullivan (technologist). - Alex Ross
Alex Ross (b. 1968) has been the music critic of "The New Yorker" magazine since 1996. His work has also appeared in "The New Republic", "Slate", the "London Review of Books", "Lingua Franca", and "Feed". From 1992 to 1996 he was a music critic at the "New York Times". He has been featured in "Best American Essays", "Da Capo Best Music Writing", and "Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader".
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