Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis is the tireless writer of this blog, with multiple posts daily on a range of topics, but with a concentration on media, blog-related news and politics. Technically, this is a personal blog, not a business blog, but Jarvis distinguishes himself as being such an influential blogger while simultaneously holding down the job as president & creative director of Advance.net, the Internet arm of Advance Publications and Condé Nast Magazines. While his blog clearly reflects his personal opinions and not those of his employer (as the standard disclaimer goes), he has acknowledged that Advance has given his blogging its nod of approval. “I type really fast,” he once told me.

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Scott Neal

Scott Neal, “your friendly City Manager for the City of Eden Prairie, MN,” explains:

I use this weblog to keep Council members, staff, and interested citizens informally updated on a variety of community-related stuff that’s crossing my desk and my mind.

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First the “Majority Report,” hosted by Janeane Garofalo, had its own blog, now the “O’Franken Factor,” hosted by comedian Al Franken, is the lasted radio show of the new liberal talk radio network Air America to have a blog.

There’s something about talk radio and blogs that is a marriage made in heaven, for the zeolot who has just too much ranting to be contained in a three-hour talk show format. Interesting that Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limblaugh on the right don’t have blogs of their own. (Could RushLimblog.com be a better name for such a site?)

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Janeane Garofalo

Actress and left-wing poltical activist Janeane Garofalo is one of the hosts of the new liberal talk radio station Air America and she and host Sam Seder have also set up this companion weblog. That’s a no-brainer. Talk radio and weblogs are a match made in cyber-heaven.

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Chris Lydon

National Public Radio personality Chris Lydon is one of the only NPR folks blogging, as far as I can tell. His is a political blog, born of a two-hour NPR show on the subject of how blogging would affect the 2004 presidential race.

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Senator and 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry’s web site maintains a blog written by campaign staff.

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The Democratic National Party has its own blog, with the surprisingly impolitic title “Kicking Ass” (which just makes it sound like they’re trying too hard to be hip, if you ask me).

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