- 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. - 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. - 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). - 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 . - 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". - 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 . - Tim Blair
Tim Blair is a journalist, commentator and blogger working in Sydney, Australia. His columns and blog are generally written in a humorous style, from a conservative viewpoint. He was born in Werribee, Victoria. In 2004, the "Sydney Morning Herald" described Blair thus: "Blair, 39, is top dog among the new Australian digerati. He is a conservative political commentator. - 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. - Juan Cole
John "Juan" Ricardo I. Cole (born October 1952 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan. As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, he has appeared in print and on television, and testified before the United States Senate. He has published several peer-reviewed books on the modern Middle East and is a translator of both Arabic and Persian. - 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". - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor is a noted American technology writer and former columnist for the "San Jose Mercury News". He was one of the leading chroniclers of the Silicon Valley dot com boom and its subsequent bust. Gillmor is also the author of a popular weblog covering technology news and the Northern California technology business sector, criticizing rigid enforcement of copyrights, and commenting on politics from a frequently left-wing perspective. - 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. - 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". - Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein is an associate editor at The American Prospect . His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, The Columbia Journalism Review, and other outlets. He's been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more. He cooks a mean kung pao, and likes to talk about health care policy. - 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. - Chris Pirillo
Chris Pirillo (born July 26, 1973 in Des Moines, Iowa) is the founder and maintainer of Lockergnome. He spent two years hosting the TechTV (now known as G4) television program "Call for Help" before parting ways with the company. He also hosted the first annual Call-for-Help-a-Thon on TechTV. - Matt Cutts
Matt Cutt's wants you to use 'no follow' so that Google can provide better search results. He also has a vested interest in increasing Google's take on Adword sales and this is a nice customer self-service model for Google that doesn't force them to do anything. - 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". - Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful. - 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. - Bruce Willis
Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor and singer. He came to fame in the late 1980s and has since retained a career as both a Hollywood leading man and a supporting actor, in particular for his role as John McClane in the "Die Hard" series. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000 after thirteen years of marriage. - 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, … - 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". - Darren Rowse
Darren Rowse is the blogger behind ProBlogger.net (a blog teaching bloggers to make money blogging and grow successful blogs) and Digital-Photography-School.com/blog - two of the highest ranking blogs in Australia. He is a full-time blogger himself, making a six-figure income from blogging now since 2005. Darren co-founded b5media - a venture capital backed blog network with over 350 blogs across 11 verticals. - 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. - Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard Gaiman was born on November 10, 1960 in Portchester, England. He is the author of numerous science fiction and fantasy works, including many comic books. As of 2002, he lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. ... After being rejected many times by publishers, Gaiman pursued journalism as a means to learn about the world and make connections that he hoped would later assist him in getting published. - 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 . . . - 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. - Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of "Wired Magazine", which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He coined the phrase "The Long Tail" in an acclaimed Wired article, which he expanded upon in the book "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More" (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and four young children. Before joining "Wired" in 2001, he worked at "The Economist", … - Tom Tomorrow
Dan Perkins, better known by the pen name “Tom Tomorrow”, is an editorial cartoonist. His weekly cartoon, "This Modern World", a comic strip that comments on current events from a strong liberal populist perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the USA and the online magazines Salon.com and Working for Change. The strip debuted in 1990 in "SF Weekly". Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, … - 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.
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