Peter Rojas

Nowadays blogs and blogging communities have become part our lifestyle as it increasingly grown to be mainstream over the internet. The popularity of blog can never be separated from the extra ordinary persons behind it, as the pioneers, founders, journalists, Software developers or simply bloggers.

Here, we have picked up some of the most influential pioneers in the Blogosphere.

Peter Rojas is the co-founder and CEO of the music site RCRD LBL, an ad-supported online free music distribution site that offers free music to download or stream.

Prior to the project , Rojas was the founding editor of the popular technology blogs Engadget, Rojas was also a former Gizmodo technology weblog editor and co-founder. Not to mention several other popular technology blogs including Joystiq, hackaday, Engadget HD and Engadget Mobile. He has also been a contributing writer to several newspapers and magazines including: Wired ,The Guardian, and The New York Times.

Xeni Jardin

Xeni Jardin is a Technology journalist and weblogger who works in print, broadcast and online media in the United States.

She She began her journalism career in the early 1990s, and at present known for her position as co-editor of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing; as a contributor to Wired News and Wired Magazine , and as a correspondent for the NPR show Day to Day.

Xeni Jardin has also worked as a guest technology news commentator for television networks such as CNN, ABC and Fox News.

Benjamin Trott

Benjamin Trott is a co-founder is the man behind Movable Type and TypePad.

Trott is Six Apart ‘s chief technical officer. He is a regular contributor to CPAN and has written for Perl.com and contributed to Essential Blogging.

At the early stages, Movable Type was developed by Trott during a period of unemployment to help out his wife Mena Trott with her blog for Mena’s personal blogging use. During the first hour that Movable Type was released, it showed amazing 100 downloads, that’s how everything started.

In 2003, Six Apart launched TypePad, a hosted weblog service that continually wins awards as best in class.

In January 2005, Six Apart took over another pioneer in blogging, LiveJournal.

Mena Trott

Mena Trott made her first efforts in weblogging at dollarshort.org in 2001.With her husband Benjamin Trott, Mena is a co-founder of Six Apart, where the Movable Type and TypePad came from.

The ‘SIX APART’ name originates from the fact that Mena Trott and co-founder/husband Benjamin Trott were born six days apart.

Trott is president of Six Apart. She helps lead management and business efforts, and makes the company products aesthetically pleasing and functionally intuitive.

Trott was included in the list of the People of the Year by PC Magazine in 2004.

Jonathan Schwartz

Jonathan Schwartz is currently President and CEO of Sun Microsystems, as well as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors.

Schwartz maintains a blog at http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/. As one of the few Fortune 500 CEO Bloggers, Schwartz is acknowledged for his efforts to bring better transparency into the corporate world and had a public exchange with SEC Chairman Christopher Cox about the use of blogs and websites to meet Regulation Fair Disclosure.

Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble is an American blogger who first rose to fame while working as a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft. Scoble is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He then moved from Microsoft to PodTech.net a video-podcast company.

He currently works for Fast Company, producing and staring in a video show. He is also the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel.

Jason Calacanis

Jason Calacanis is a Greek-Irish American Internet entrepreneur and former blogger. He has founded many companies including Silicon Alley Reporter and Weblogs, Inc. 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.

Jason Calacanis is the man who found Mahalo.com and has been the CEO since 2007.

Matt Mullenweg

Born as Matthew Charles Mullenweg, He is the founding developer of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress and writes a his personal blog, Photo Matt which becomes popular too.

After quitting from CNET, he has devoted the most of his time to developing several open source projects. He started developing Wordpress in 2002, at the time Moveable Type was one of the most popular blogging platforms before they.

Then Wordpress came along to save the day. at present the software is considered the most popular blogging platform that is used to host millions of blogs on the Internet.

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