- 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.
- Brian Alvey
Brian Alvey along with Jason Calacanis co-founded the publishing company Weblogs, Inc., home to such blogs as Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, TV Squad Cinematical and Slashfood. Time Warner's America Online purchased Weblogs, Inc. in October 2005. In November 2006, AOL also purchased the blogging platform Blogsmith which Alvey built. Blogsmith is used to power Weblogs, Inc. and other AOL blogs such as TMZ.com.
- 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.
- Neil McIntosh
Neil McIntosh is a British journalist working for "Guardian Unlimited", "The Guardian" newspaper's website. He is head of editorial development (previously assistant editor), and has led its introduction of weblogs and podcasts in recent years. He speaks regularly on innovation in journalism in Europe and the US. He has been called "the godfather of British commercial weblogging" for his early reporting on weblogs and their commercial possibilities, …
- Marty Lederman
Martin "Marty" S. Lederman is a Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches various courses in constitutional law. He regularly contributes to the weblogs SCOTUSblog and Balkinization, including on matters relating to Executive power, detention, interrogation, civil liberties, and torture. Lederman was an Attorney Advisor in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel from 1994 to 2002, …
- Jake Brahm
Jake Joseph Brahm (born 1986) is an American grocery store clerk, blogger, and alleged terrorist. He attained notoriety when a post he made on the 4chan imageboard was interpreted as a terrorist threat by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Although doubting the credibility of the threat, the DHS warned the National Football League (NFL) of this threat via a memo which was later leaked to the press.
- Alex Rudloff
Alexander Charles "Alex" Rudloff (Born February 17, 1981 in Melbourne, Florida) is an American internet entrepreneur, blogger, and web developer. A graduate of the University of Central Florida, Rudloff was the lead developer of Netscape.com and a developer for Blogsmith, the blogging software used by Weblogs, Inc. He is also the CEO of postGorilla, Inc., the company behind Emurse.com.
- Ken Auletta
Ken Auletta is a U.S. media critic for "The New Yorker" from Brooklyn, New York, who has written over 10 books, several of which have become "New York Times" best-sellers. Auletta has written about media empires, the George W. Bush administration, and Microsoft.
- Gavin Hall
Gavin William Hall (Born September 26, 1980 in West Palm Beach, Florida) is an American internet entrepreneur. A graduate of the University of Central Florida, Hall is the lead developer for Blogsmith, the blogging software used by Weblogs, Inc. He is also the CTO of postGorilla, Inc., the company behind Emurse.com.
- C.K. Sample III
You may know me as: the former lead blogger for The Unofficial Apple Weblog; the former General Manager of the new Netscape (later relaunched as Propeller); the former Editorial Director of Mahalo.com.I help build Web 2.0 editorially driven products. If you need help with such a product, please feel free to contact me.
- David Donnelly
David Sifry is a serial entrepreneur with more than 19 years of software development and industry experience. Before founding Technorati, Dave was co-founder and CTO of Sputnik, a Wi-Fi gateway company, and prior to that was cofounder of Linuxcare, where he served as CTO and VP of Engineering. Dave also served as a founding member of the board of Linux International and on the technical advisory board of the National Cybercrime Training Partnership for law enforcement.
- 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.
- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Patrick James Nielsen Hayden (born January 2, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan) is an American science fiction editor, fanzine publisher, essayist, reviewer, anthologist, and teacher. He is a World Fantasy Award winner, has been nominated for the Hugo Award eight times, and is a Senior Editor and the Manager of Science Fiction at Tor Books. The former Patrick Hayden changed his last name to "Nielsen Hayden" on his marriage to Teresa Nielsen (now Teresa Nielsen Hayden) in 1979.
- Brendan Nyhan
Brendan Nyhan (born 1978) is an American liberal to moderate political blogger, author, and political columnist. He was born in Mountain View, California and now lives in Durham, North Carolina. <br><br
- 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".
- Jeffrey Ash
Jeffrey Ash , Vice President of Finance, has served in a variety of financial and management positions in the online and communications industries. Before joining BabyCenter in June 2007, he was Vice President of Finance in the Web Services Division of AOL, where he was responsible for financial planning, reporting and operational support for AOL's Products and Programming organizations.
- 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.
- 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.
- Vinson Valega
Vinson Valega is a jazz musician and composer who resides in New York City. He was born in Silver Spring, MD, on March 12, 1965 and is a product of suburbia, where he was raised outside of Washington, DC. Vinson is also involved in environmental issues and progressive activism. Inspired by the concept of Consilience that was first developed by the socio-biologist, Edward O. Wilson, he is stimulating a "dialogue BEYOND music" at his artist-run website, …
- 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.
- 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".
- Tom Peters
Tom Peters Consultant & Author The Project 50
- Alberto Escarlate
CTO and co-founder of TigerTag.
- Brian Alvey
Well a little bit about me. I have lived in St. Marys county my whole life, so i have a little bit of the southern accent. As u can probally tell. I cant spell the best, but who the hell needs to do that. spell check i say. I work in waldorf for LSA. Its a fun job at times.
- Robin Marty
Robin Marty is managing editor of "Minnesota Monitor", a writing fellow for the Center for Independent Media, and an American liberal political blogger. Marty has been blogging since 2004 at The Power Liberal, a weblog she shares with her husband, Steve Marty. She is also the Minneapolis coordinator for Drinking Liberally.
- Jane Hamsher
Bio: Jane Hamsher is the founder of the highly-popular blog, firedoglake.com. Her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, Alternet and The American Prospect. She's the author of the best selling book "Killer Instinct" and has produced such films as "Natural Born Killers" and "Permanent Midnight." She currently lives in Middletown, Connecticut.
- 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.
- 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.
- Karl-Heinz Wenzlaff
- 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.
- Abdel Kareem Nabil
Kareem Amer is the online pseudonym of Egyptian blogger and former law student Abdul Kareem Suleiman Amer (sometimes Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman) (born c. 1984). He was arrested by Egyptian authorities for posts on his blog that were considered to be anti-religious and insulting to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. On February 22nd, 2007 in his native city Alexandria.
- Captains Quarters
Captains Quarters is a blog operated by "Captain" Ed Morrissey, a conservative blogger based in Minnesota's Twin Cities.
- Tim Ireland
Tim Ireland is an online marketing consultant and activist who operates the website Bloggerheads.com Ireland produced the first weblog by a British Labour Member of Parliament (Tom Watson) and the first weblog by a British Conservative MP (Boris Johnson). In 2002, he ran a successful year-long campaign to make UK Prime Minister Tony Blair more accessible via email, …
- 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, …
- Pete Prodoehl
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- Shai Coggins
Just go to - http://www.shaicoggins.com/ or visit About Web; logs - http://weblogs.about.com/ , my eBay Art Auctions -; http://ebay.shaicoggins.com/, Chrysalis Creativity -; http://www.chrysaliscreativity.com/ , FreshWave.TV (video blog) - http://www.freshwave.tv/ and/or Shai in 60 Seconds (podcast) - http://60secondshai.blogspot.com/;.
- Paul Sharpe
Happily married since May 2004, and now a proud father! http://evie.thesharpes.org;.
- Firda Beka
I eloped. I once wrote a note to my dead mother on a piece of scrap paper, put it in a bottle, and then threw it into the Atlantic Ocean. I dream about my mother almost every night. I dream in colour. I send postcards to my three years old nephew. I fell in love with my husband four years before I met him. I've seen more of Canada than many Canadians. I take pictures with old cameras, some of which are twice my age. I bake good brownies.
- Thomas Mathew
t.m., the aspiring DJ and #1 sly baba...bringin' you that retro coolie panache. I'm young, but with the soul of an old man; and mostly, I try not to sweat the technique. Standard.
- Lauren
single mom of one, student at Purdue University, English Education, feminist, liberal, aquarius, and taken thankyouverymuch.