- 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). - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Jay Rosen
Jay Rosen (born May 5, 1956 in Buffalo, New York) is a press critic, a writer, and a professor of journalism at New York University. He is a strong supporter of citizen journalism, encouraging the press to take a more active interest in citizenship, improving public debate, and enhancing life. His book about the subject, "What Are Journalists For?" was published in 1999. Rosen writes frequently about issues in journalism and developments the media. - 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, … - Jeremy Zawodny
Jeremy Zawodny is currently an employee of Yahoo! in the platform engineering group. He has been described as "Yahoo!'s MySQL guru". He maintains a popular weblog focused on Yahoo! initiatives, which is listed in CNET News.com's index of the 100 best technology-related blogs. According to CNET, Zawodny has "helped put MySQL and other open-source technologies to use". - 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, … - 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? - 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, … - Colby Cosh
Colby Cosh (born May 2, 1971 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian commentator, writer and editor of non-fiction, and blogger. Cosh grew up in Bon Accord, Alberta, north of Edmonton, and graduated from the University of Alberta in 1993, doing further study in European intellectual history under libertarian scholar Ronald Hamowy. Cosh generally writes political, social and sports commentary for his blog, and professionally for the conservative press. - Oliver Kamm
Oliver Kamm (born 1963) is a British writer and newspaper columnist. He is the author of "Anti-Totalitarianism: The Left-wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy" (2005), in which he advocates interventionism in foreign policy. He also writes opinion pieces for "The Times". - 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. - Chris Muir
Chris Muir (born 1958) is a U.S. cartoonist who draws the daily web comic "Day by Day". The strip has a decidedly conservative slant and often makes references to political weblogs. Prior to that, he drew a single-panel comic called "Altered States" for about 5 years for Florida Today (a Gannett newspaper). Muir cites the work of several other cartoonists as inspiration, including Gary Larson and Garry Trudeau. - Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey Zeldman is among the web's best-known web designers, authors, and teachers. His personal site, zeldman.com , has welcomed over 16 million visitors and is a daily industry read. Jeffrey is the founder of Happy Cog Studios, the publisher of A List Apart Magazine, and the author of Designing With Web Standards (New Riders, 2003) and Taking Your Talent to the Web (New Riders, 2001). - 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. - Scoobie Davis
Scoobie Davis is the pen name of a self-described media hacker who writes for the political weblog Scoobie Davis Online. Davis’ blog is eclectic, devoting space to media criticism and his confrontations with prominent right-wing media figures such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, his tales of crashing Hollywood parties, and his postmodernist enjoyment of cartoonist Jack Chick’s work. - Eugene Volokh
Eugene Volokh (born Yevgeniy Volokh,, February 29, 1968) is an American legal commentator and law professor at the UCLA School of Law (located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles). He publishes the widely-read weblog "The Volokh Conspiracy" and is commonly cited in the American media. - Norman Geras
In its first two issues Democratiya has carried some of the most thoughtful and serious voices on the threat of terrorism. I welcome Democratiya's refusal of the fashionable apologetics for suicide bombers and its willingness to examine deeply the challenge of shaping a response to terrorism that is both effective and true to our democratic values. - Stephen Downes
Stephen Downes (born April 6, 1959) is a designer and theorist in the fields of online learning and new media. Born in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) Downes lived and worked across Canada before joining the National Research Council of Canada as a senior researcher in November 2001. Currently based in Moncton, New Brunswick, at the Institute for Information Technology's e-Learning Research Group, … - 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. - Xeni Jardin
Xeni Jardin (born August 5 1972) is a journalist and weblogger in the United States. She is known for her position as co-editor of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing; as a contributor to "Wired" and "Wired News", and as a correspondent for the National Public Radio show "Day to Day". She has also worked as a guest technology news commentator for television networks such as CNN, Fox News and ABC. - Jorn Barger
Jorn Barger (born 1953 in Yellow Springs, Ohio) is an American blogger, best known today as editor of "Robot Wisdom", an influential early weblog. Barger coined the term "weblog" to describe the process of "logging the web" as he surfed. Some of his writings have been a source of controversy, provoking accusations of anti-Semitism. He has also written extensively on James Joyce and artificial intelligence, … - Xiaxue
Xiaxue (Simplified Chinese: 下雪, real name Wendy Cheng) is one of the most prominent bloggers in Singapore. She started her blog in 2003. Her blog attracts about 20,000 readers every day with her take on current events and her life. She blogs about various topics, ranging from methods of measuring penises to dumb starfish and MRT irritants. She has been criticised, however, for the use of expletives in her entries, … - Christopher Lydon
Christopher Lydon (born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1940) is an American media personality and author whose work in radio includes formerly hosting "The Connection" for WBUR. He created the show with his long-time producer Mary McGrath. <sup></sup> He is a former journalist with the New York Times, former WGBH Boston evening news anchor for the 10 o'clock news from 1977 until its cancellation in May of 1991, and a candidate for mayor of Boston in 1993. - Meg Hourihan
Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs, the company behind Blogger before its acquisition by Google. She now runs a weblog at Megnut.com and co-founded Kinja along with Nick Denton of Gawker Media. She married notable blogger Jason Kottke on March 25th, 2006, and gave birth to their son, Ollie Peter Kottke, on July 3, 2007. She is the co-author of "We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs" (ISBN 0-7645-4962-6), … - Noah Grey
Noah Grey (born August 5, 1974) is a well-known blogger and photoblogger best known for creating Greymatter, one of the original blogging programs, and for his gallery-featured photography. He has served as a creative consultant to Google for their photo software Picasa, and has released a book of his photography and an album of his music. Born in the United States, he now lives in Dublin, Ireland. - Markos Moulitsas
Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, often known by his username and former military moniker "Kos" ("kōs"), is the founder and main author of Daily Kos, a weblog focusing on progressive, liberal, and Democratic Party politics. Moulitsas currently resides in Berkeley, California, with his wife and two children. - Mark Frauenfelder
Mark Frauenfelder (mark@well.com) is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles. He co-founded bOING bOING magazine, and was the founding editor-in-chief of Wired Online. He was also an editor at Wired magazine and Wired books from 1993-1998. He writes a monthly column for Playboy called "Living Online," about the Internet. - James Joyner
James Joyner (born November 16, 1965) is best known as the founder and editor-in-chief of the weblog Outside The Beltway and a frequent contributor to "TCS Daily" (formerly Tech Central Station). He is a management analyst at Lanmark Technology, Inc., a Washington, D.C. area defense contractor and works at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in Falls Church, Virginia. - Tristan Louis
Tristan Louis (born February 28, 1971 in Digne-les-Bains, France) is an author, entrepreneur and blogger who has run the site TNL.net since 1994. - Carl Zimmer
Carl Zimmer is a popular science writer and weblogger, especially regarding the study of evolution and parasites. He has written several books and contributes science essays to publications such as "The New York Times" and "Discover". - Matt Stoller
Matthew N. Stoller (born February 08, 1978) is an American blogger, author and political consultant. Stoller is also the president of BlogPAC, a political action committee that funds progressive blogs. Stoller is well known for his activities during the campaign for the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and was until recently a leading contributor to the liberal political blog MyDD, until he helped co-found OpenLeft in July 2007. - Hossein Derakhshan
Hossein Derakhshan, also known as Hoder, is an Iranian journalist and weblogger based in Toronto. His weblog, which is blocked in Iran by the government, is among the most-read weblogs in Persian. He is also credited with starting the blogging revolution in Iran while getting funds from the Iranian regime. He is also seen going in and out of the Iranian embassy in Paris and London. and is called by many journalists as the father of Persian blogging. - Jack Balkin
Jack M. Balkin (born August 13, 1956 in Kansas City, Missouri) is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Balkin is the founder and director of the Yale Information Society Project (ISP), a research center whose mission is "to study the implications of the Internet, telecommunications, and the new information technologies on law and society." He also writes political and legal commentary at a weblog, Balkinization. - Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Teresa Nielsen Hayden (born March 21, 1956) is an American science fiction editor, fanzine writer, essayist, and teacher. Born Teresa Nielsen, she grew up in a Mormon household in Mesa, Arizona, but was excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1980. In her youth, she served as a page in the Arizona House of Representatives. - Lew Rockwell
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. (born 14 October 1944, Boston), more commonly known as Lew Rockwell, is an American libertarian political commentator. Rockwell is the founder and President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, Vice President of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, California, and publisher of the political weblog LewRockwell.com. - Ron Silliman
Ron Silliman (born August 5,1946 in Pasco, Washington) is a contemporary American poet. He has written and edited 26 books to date. Between 1979 & 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, entitled The Alphabet. He has now begun writing a new poem entitled Universe, the first section of which appears to be called "Revelator". Silliman sees his poetry as being part of a single poem or lifework, …
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