WordPress have been used worldwide for creation of websites and blogs. It has attracted many business tycoon and famous personalities who uses WordPress for promoting their business and services. With internet becoming more advanced, social blogs have gained more popularity out of which some of the popular WordPress bloggers are listed below:
Michael Arrington
J. Michael Arrington was born on 13th March 1970 in California. TechCrunch, a blog covering start-ups and technology news was founded by him in the year 2005. A daily income of around $14,816 is earned from this blog and its value is estimated to be $10.82 million. Michael graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a major in economics. He attended Stanford Law School in 1995 and practiced corporate and securities law at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. His clients included Netscape, Apple and many startups, venture funds, and investment banks. He later left the practice of law to join Real Names, which failed after raising $100M. He was co-founder of Achex, an internet payment company, which was sold to First Data Corp for US$32 million. He has also co-authored a book on initial public offerings.
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Matt Marshall
There was a time when news pertaining to entrepreneurial and technology innovations were either uncovered entirely or reached public only after a time period. That time a new blog named VentureBeat was launched in 2006 by Matt Marshall.
His blog is updated with all business and technological innovation information with a greater velocity and in-depth details. His blog generates a daily income of $1,251 and its value is $913,721. Before finding VentureBeat, he used to cover venture capital for San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. He was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists in 2002. He used to work for Wall Street Journal in Germany from 1995 to 1998 and was a writer for Washington Post in 1994.
Vitaly Friedman
Vitaly Friedman is the founder of a very popular blog Smashing Magazine. He is the writer, speaker, author and editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine. He also runs responsive Web design workshops, online workshops and solves complex UX, front-end and performance problems in large companies. According to the blog, its every article goes through a thorough editorial review, including multiple passes for editing and refinement, before being published. Its articles focuses on the latest trends and best practices in web development. In 2010, Smashing Magazine was the recipient of a Shorty Awards for its notable contribution to the field of design. It was also the winner of the .net Awards in 2008 under the category "Best Blog". Daily income generated from his blog is $6,382 and its value is $4.66 million.
Harsh Agarwal
Harsh is the founder of the blog called shoutmeloud. He completed his engineering from Sharda University. He then started to work for Convergys, a call centre in Gurgoan, India. It was while working in this company that he started his first blog in blogspot and then after few months switched over to self-hosted WordPress blog. He writes about SEO, social media, starting and managing a blog, and making money online.
Mark Frauenfelder
Mark Frauenfelder along with his wife Carla Sinclair founded the blog bOING bOING. He is a blogger, illustrator and journalist. His wife is an American writer and journalist. Mark is the co-editor of The Happy Mutant Handbook. He is the author and illustrator of Mad Professor (2002), World’s Worst (2005) and The Computer: An Illustrated History (2005). He is also the author of Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet—Better, Faster, Easier (2007), and Made by Hand (2010). Carla edited the book Net Chick, and was author of the cyber culture thriller Signal to Noise. She was editor-in-chief at Craft magazine for O’Reilly Media.
Amit Agarwal
Amit Agarwal is an I.I.T graduate and has worked at ADP Inc. for clients like Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. He introduced the blog titled labnol and became India’s first Professional Blogger. Microsoft awarded him the Most Valuable Professional award for five years in a row (2007-2011). He has developed several popular web apps and Google Add-ons including Mail Merge for Gmail. He is the author of The Most Useful Websites, an ebook. Amit authors the hugely popular and award-winning Digital Inspiration blog where he writes how-to guides around consumer software and mobile apps.
Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin was born on 20th October 1970 in Philadelphia. She is an American conservative blogger, political commentator and author. She launched her political blog MichelleMalkin in June 2004. A 2007 memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee described Malkin as one of the five "best-read national conservative bloggers". In 2011, the people search company PeekYou claimed that Malkin had the largest digital footprint of any political blogger.
Oliver Dale
Oliver Dale launched the blog WP Lift in 2010. He is the WordPress developer and is well known within the WordPress niche for launching WordPress related products such as the theme store ThemeFurnace and the advertising plugin WP AdCenter. His blog is updated daily with guides, useful tools, plugin reviews, theme reviews, and news roundups. Oliver is also the founder of Kooc Media.
Pete Cashmore
Pete was born on 18th September 1985 in Scotland. He is the founder of the popular blog Mashable, a Technorati Top 10 blog worldwide. Cashmore was recognized in Inc.’s "30 Under 30", Forbes’ "Top 25 Web Celebs" and The Huffington Post’s "Top 10 Game Changers 2009". He writes a weekly column on technology and social media at CNN. He was one among those who were listed in Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people. He was also crowned as the most influential Briton by INQ and most influential Twitter user in the world in 2009.
Perez Hilton (Mario Armando Lavandeira)
Perez Hilton was born on 23rd March 1978 in Florida, United States. He is an American blogger, columnist and television personality who founded the blog named PerezHilton. This blog was previously named as PageSixSixSix and is famous for posts covering gossips about celebrities. He also posts tabloid photographs over which he adds his own captions or "doodles". He had started blogging as a part of his hobby and it included online journals and hobbies which didn’t interest him. It was after some time that he started focussing on celebrities, as he found them more entertaining. Terra.com had named Hilton the Hispanic of the Year in Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month on 15 September 2008. $3645 is the daily income spawned from the blog and its value is @2.66 million.