Jason McCabe Calacanis is an Greek-American internet entrepreneur and blogger. His first company was part of the dot-com era in New York, and his second venture capitalized on the growth of blogs before being sold to AOL.

According to Forbes, which ranked it 23rd on the list of most popular web celebrities:

If there’s a Joe Pulitzer if the blogging world, it may well be Jason Calacanis, the media entrepreneur who’s created some of the Web’s hottest sites. As the co-founder of Weblogs Inc, Calacanis oversaw the creation of top sites like Engadget, Joystiq and Slashfood; in October 2005, the company was sold to AOL for a reported $25 million. Following a short stint where he redesigned and relaunched AOL’s Netscape.com, Calacanis recently moved on to become an “entrepreneur in action” at Sequoia Capital. But Calacanis isn’t just a businessman–his personal blog is one of the most popular on the Web.

Calacanis’ latest venture is Mahalo.com, a “human-powered search engine”, which launched in May 2007.

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Amanda Congdon is the co-producer and host of a weekly vidcast for ABC. She has an independent videoblog, Starring Amanda Congdon. She is also co-president of Oxmour Entertainment along with Mario Librandi and was the host of Amanda Across America before it concluded. However, she is probably best known for hosting the daily news show Rocketboom , which she hosted and produced until 23 June 2006. She is still the co-owner (49%) of Rocketboom but a controversial dispute between her and the 51% shareholder Andrew Baron has resulted in her no longer hosting or producing the show. She also was the co-executive producer of JETSET for the first several episodes of that show.

Congdon was born and raised in Manhattan and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Northwestern University.Once she graduated she took a job at Saatchi & Saatchi, an advertising agency. She had leading roles in Waafrika (Red Room Theater) and Independence (Manhattan Theatre Source) and, during the second season, appeared as the coat check attendant on Rocco’s The Restaurant. She has also appeared on CSI, The Chris Rock Show (on HBO), a Showtime pilot and Cake Presents. She can be seen in a Northstar music video which aired on MTV2, FUSE, and VH1’s My Coolest Years.

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According to Forbes, which ranks Xeni at number 16 in its Top 25 Web Celeb list, Technology blog Boing Boing is so popular that two of its co-editors (Jardin and Cory Doctorow) appear on the Forbes.com Web Celeb 25–but Xeni Jardin is also a star in her own right. As a tech culture journalist, she has written for magazines including Wired, Popular Science and Playboy. She contributes segments to National Public Radio and makes regular TV appearances on outlets including CNN, ABC, NBC and PBS. Jardin even co-curated SENT, America’s first cellphone art show.

Her work at Boing Boing has provoked some critical response. In March 2005, Jesse Andrews created a script for GreaseMonkey that filters out Boing Boing posts by Jardin. In March 2006, Matthew N. Sharp created XeniSucks.com, which criticizes and parodies Jardin’s posts on Boing Boing. Jardin posted a link to the site on Boing Boing and described it as “a total hoot.”

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Darren Rowse, is a full-time blogger, co-founder of LivingRoom, co-founder and vice-president of b5media, co-founder of the Six Figure Blogging course, speaker, blog consultant, and founder of ProBlogger. Rowse currently lives and works in his Melbourne, Australia home, is married to “V” and has one son. Read More…

Darren maintains over twenty different blogs covering a wide array of topics. However, his main attention online comes from Problogger.net. This site is dedicated to helping other bloggers learn the skills of blogging, share their own experiences and promote the blogging medium. The site was started in September 2004 to keep record of what Darren was learning about blogging for money. It currently has well over 3500 articles, tips, tutorials and case studies. He recently co-founded b5media, a blog-network, which hosts over 200 blogs and is one of the largest new media networks with over 1 million page views a day.

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