Top 10 People Who Shaped The Blogging Business
[1] J. Michael Arrington
Michael Arrington is the major contributor who has made the blogging business so big, founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in USA and elsewhere. Magazines such as Wired and Forbes have named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the Internet.In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.
We can say that Michael has given a business model to blogging. Techcrunch is now the biggest Technology news and analysis blog that makes estimated more than US$10 million per year.
Contribution : Started and Shaped Technology Blogging and Multi Author Blogging
Website : TechCruch.com
[2] Pete Cashmore
Pete Cashmore, the young Scottish dude who revolutionize the whole social networking thing, is the CEO and founder of Mashable, he founded Mashable in a in 2005 at age 19. In 2009, Cashmore was chosen as one of Inc Magazine’s 30 Under 30, Forbes’ Top 25 Web Celebs and the Huffington Posts’ Top 10 Game Changers 2009. The site’s writers have been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post and hundreds of technology publications. Pete was selected as a Top 25 Forbes Web Celeb in 2007, while Mashable was chosen as a must-read site by both Fast Company and PC Magazine.
His blog is No. 1 in Social Media Networking niche and serves over 10 million monthly unique readers and employs 15 full time staff. It has more than 50 regular guest contributors and reports millions of dollars in revenue through its advertising and events businesses.
In mid 2007, BusinessWeek featured Mashable as one of the world’s most profitable blogs.
Contribution : Started and Shaped Social Networking Blogging and Multi Author Blogging
Website: Mashable.com
[3] Darren Rowse
Well almost every blogger in this world knows him, every blogger try to be like him and why not, he is the one who has shown the path to bloggers that blogging can be a full time profession and you can make a living out of it.
In November 2002, while working as a part-time minister, for an online department store, and as a casual laborer, Rowse started LivingRoom.org.au, a blog about living in Australia, religion, politics and other topics that he found interesting. Rowse contributes to around 20 different blogs, although he is only actively blogging on three- including topic specific blogs such as the Athens Olympics and the Michael Jackson court case – he runs with other bloggers.
His two main personal blogs are ‘Digital Photography School’ which features photography tips and ProBlogger which features tips on blogging.
These two blogs get around 85,000-100,000 page views a day. According to an estimate he makes over $30,000 in total ad revenue a month.
Contribution : New Dimension to Professional Blogging
Website: problogger.net
[4] John Chow
The root of all Make Money Online evil, He is probably the first guy who coined the term “Make Money Online”. His tagline shows it all “I make Money Online by telling people how I make money online”
John Chow also known by the nick name “Moto”, named after the old video game Moto Racer, lives in Vancouver, Canada. Before discovering the internet, he was a partner in a local Richmond printing company. After over a decade of running a print shop, he decided it was time for a change, and the internet was where I was going to stake my claim.
On April 1999, He started a little technology site call The TechZone. That site has risen to become one of the largest hardware tech sites on the net. Shifting gears from technology to personal blogging he started his blog JohnChow dot Com in 2005.His blog used to be called The Wired World Of John Chow. Now it’s call the John Chow dot Com The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul.
He makes $40,000 per month from his make Money Online Blogging stuff. I remember in the midth of 2008 there was a kind of flood of MMO bloggers who try to duplicate his success but no one could acheive the level of success he has achieved in Make Money Online Blogging,
Contribution : Started and Shaped Make Money online Blogging
Website: Johnchow.com
[5] Jeremy Schoemakar
Jeremy, used to be FAT boy, shaped himself and his affiliate marketing business both very smartly and professionally. a photo of Jeremy with a check for $130,000 (one-month earnings from Google AdSense) is one of the most linked to pages to a blog. ShoeMoney’s blog was named Best Affiliate Marketing Blog of 2006 by Search Engine Journal,and in 2007 he claimed that his blog was generating $10,000 monthly with the sale of direct ads.
He is a frequent speaker at search engine marketing and affiliate conferences, and co-founded the Elite Retreat conference.Founder of ShoeMoney Media, and co-founder of the AuctionAds service. In March 2007, Schoemaker and his business partner David Dellanave launched AuctionAds, an eBay affiliate marketing service that serves eBay auction ads on contextually relevant sites.
This Guy who started his journey with small ringtone community company and later on started shoemoney.com is now making millions of dollars per year with online entrepreneurship.
Contribution : Started and Shaped Affiliate marketing Blogging
Website: Shoemoney.com
[6] Yaro Starak
Another Young Guy from Darren Rowse’s country Australia, who have created, managed and sold several different Internet businesses since 1998 and currently teach people how to make a full time income from blogging part time through my Blog Mastermind coaching program and how to launch online membership sites through my Membership Site Mastermind course.
He started his blog in 2005 just making enough money to live independently at that time but with hardwork and smart moves over the years he chronicled all the different things and ramp up blog income.
Currently he is making from his blogging and other business nearly $20000 per month.
Contribution : Started and Shaped Blog Coaching programs
Website: Entrepreneurs-journey.com
[7] Sven Lennartz and Vitaly Friedman
Sven Lennartz and Vitaly Friedman Started Smashing Magazine in 2006 . This blog offers resources and advice to web developers and web designers.
In December 2008 BurrellesLuce ranked Smashing Magazine number ten in their list of top blogs.Smashing Magazine evaluates software, applications, and web-based tools that are targeted at web designers and developers, and publishes tutorials and how-tos on design and development. Smashing Magazine also offers free fonts, icons, and templates for download, as well as showcasing other things of importance the web development community.
No doubt these two duo has taken over Website Designing and development bogging to the next level, there are several blogs in the world now that shares similar interests. Lots of Web Designer also started out sharing their new development and freebies with their readers taking inspiration from smashing Magazine.
Contribution : Started and Shaped Web designing and Development blogging
Website: Smashingmagazine.com
[8] Peter Rojas
This guy Peter Rojas is co-founder of not one, not two, but three big Gadget & technology blogs Gizmodo, Engadget, and Joystiq. In 2006, Rojas was described by New York magazine as ‘the best-compensated blogger in history. He later went on to co-found gdgt along with Ryan Block, former editor-in-chief at Engadget
Rojas was and the founder and editorial director of Engadget, a daily blog covering gadgets and personal technology with a monthly readership of over 9 million. He was also the co-founder of Joystiq, Gizmodo, and Hackaday, and served as an on-air contributor to HGTV’s I Want That – Tech Toys and as a guest host on G4’s Attack of the Show.
Previously Rojas worked as a contributing editor at Cargo, an editor-at-large at Sync, a columnist on emerging technology for British newspaper The Guardian, a features and news writer for the original Red Herring, and was a contributor to Wired, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Salon, Slate, Vice, Surface, Food & Wine, Popular Science, Fortune, Money, and Business 2.0. He was educated at Harvard University and the University of Sussex (U.K.) and currently lives and works in New York City.
Contribution : Started and Shaped tech-Gadget blogging
Website: roj.as
[9] Daniel Scocco
The best thing about Daniel is that he is kind approachable to all young and aspirants bloggers. You just shoot a mail to him and you get reply for your quarry for sure. Daniel started developing blogs and websites in 2005, and Daily Blog Tips is the place where he shares what he learned along the way. The blog was nominated under the “Best Web Development Blog” category in the 2007 Weblog Awards, and currently it is ranked among the 500 most popular blogs in the world (according to Technorati) and among the 100 most popular marketing blogs in the world (according to AdvertisingAge).
Contribution : Started and Shaped Membership Sites and Niche Sites building, blogging
Website: Onlineprofits.com
[10] Gideon Shalwick
This young guy is trying to tap the very new and potential market of video blogging. Currently focusing on online video marketing and teach people how to build a ton of leads using simple tools like YouTube and blogs and clever marketing strategies. In late 2006, after a successful career in project management and business development for various hi-tech companies, Gideon decided to quit his job, emigrate to Australia, and start his own business.
He co-author couple of books with Yaro Starak, One of his books, The Roadmap To Become A Blogger, has been downloaded over 35,000 times book on the magic niche has now been downloaded over 28,000 times.
Contribution : Started and professionalized Video blogging
Website: Gideonshalwick.com
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Very good work dear
i guess you must include Amit Agrawal of labnol.org who unanimously lead the huge number of indian bloggers too.
loved your site
Bookmarked it, correct me if i am doing any mistake on my blog techtoom.com
My blog is not about money , seo or affiliate , rather my focus is to share technology information daily. Its for common man who take interest in technology.
Yes, No doubt Amit Aggarwal has remarkable contribution to Indian Blogging scene. Thanks for bookmarking.
I do agree with VIKASH you must add “Amit Agrawal” and if you planning to make lis of up coming top Bloggers then I will vote for Harsh Agarwal.
With due respect and regard to what you say, this list is about those who shaped the whole blogging scene, give blogging a shape of business and profession, they were the pioneer and brought blogging to this level and this is not about successful bloggers. Hope you will agree.
I agree with what Shankar added here.. We have so many popular and upcoming bloggers around the globe but everyone can’t get into this list…As it’s about people who brought significant change with the help of Blogging…
That’s why today Blogs are more popular than Static Websites….
very nice post mr Bakshi, you gathered useful stuff and showed us people professionals like no other.
Thanks for including me with these heavy weights Shanker
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Thats your greatness Scocco.
Great job done Bakshi. You gathered very inspiring information, all theses guys are
really awesome and gave more to blogging industry. Johnchow is my favorite from all.
That’s a great list Shankar and most important an accurate one.. All the name in the list are known by almost every serious blogger….
Meanwhile small typo. In John Chow introduction
“I make Money Online by telling people how much money I make Online”
It should be
“I make Money Online by telling people how I make money online”
Hey Thanks for pointing that mistake, Fixed now.
great list bro! you just mentioned all of my favorite blogs.
Wow, as always, a great contribution!
Some of these i already knew, but i definitely discovered som new names, which i will keep an eye on
Thanks
yupp really its great to see those guys who gave blogging a new platform and this blog is really encouraging for those who’ve started recently and it will definitely show the path to the noob bloggers so they can earn money. thanks for sharing such a cool information with us.
awesome write up
now i knew ones which i didn’t knew earlier
What a great list you have here.
You are really true about this.
I have some of the people here on my list of the top 10 people I get e-business inspiration from. You can check out the list here
http://makemoneyonlineng.com/top-10-people-ebusiness-inspiration/
Awesome list, hope you make part-II and let readers know some more great people by listing
I have been following some of the blogs in which I am interested more.
From that I can suggest two blogs.
1. http://www.macrumors.com the number one blog about Apple products. Its owner Arnold Kim who is a doctor, a medical practitioner runs the personal blog http://normalkid.com is a problogger himself.
2. http://KevinMD.com/blog is arguably the most respected and famous blog about medical policies and health plannings in USA.
Shanker , your list is a good one, because it has people who were ordinary people who made it big on the internet both in reader base and in revenue generation.
nice article. Also thanks for the mistake.
This is really good stuff. I have heard of most, but did find a name or two here I was not familiar with.
I am still in the early stages, but my goal is to be living from my blogging 100% in twelve months!!
If you are all interested, please take a look at my site and feel free to email with ideas.
Thanks!
Mike
Cool article/summary of blogging pioneers despite me really not liking some of the people you listed! haha
this guys rock I wish I can be on that list some day.
Terrific contribution. This will inspirate all bloggers.
I must say arrington has entirely changed the tech world and helped many entrepreneurs around the world…
One day ill be among them and not just the one admiring them…
The top 3 people have really created benchmark in blogging business! It is really nice and informative which also given idea about other top bloggers of the world!
Great and accurate list Shankar