Contributors

Angie Dudley

Bakerella

Bakerella focuses on fun and easy baking. The site is a place to explore recipes, desserts, and decorating. You'll find ideas for cake pops and other unique treats to make you smile.

BurdaStyle

BurdaStyle offers copyright-free sewing patterns, step-by-step tutorials, skill sharing, inspiration, project ideas and an engaged, creative community. It takes less than a minute to get started, and there's something for everyone from experts to novices. BurdaStyle is a place for people who sew or would like to learn. Our aim is to bring the traditional craft of sewing to a new generation of fashion designers, sewing hobbyists, DIYers. BurdaStyle has a wide variety of advertising and partnership options including banner ads, weekly newsletter announcements, targeted live events, signature contests and sponsorship of our downloadable patterns. Our vibrant community consists of 270,000+ members, with 170,000 opt-in subscribers to our weekly newsletter

Erin Loechner

Design for Mankind

Writer Erin Loechner launched her award-winning blog DesignForMankind in 2007 as a catalog for the overflowing inspiration found while researching design day and night. Her work has been featured in Glamour, Dwell, Lucky, Nylon, and ReadyMade Magazine, where she regularly blogs. A former AOL editor, Erin currently hosts a weekly column on HGTV.com tracking the progress of her home renovation entitled 'The House That DFM Built.'. In addition, she can recite all fifty states in alphabetical order in less than fourteen seconds.

Grace Bonney

Design*Sponge

Design*Sponge is a daily website dedicated to home and product design run by Brooklyn-based writer Grace Bonney. Launched in August of 2004, Design*Sponge features store and product reviews, sale and contest announcements, new designer profiles, trend forecasting and store/studio tours. In addition, Design*Sponge features a unique section dedicated to covering student design, national and international design shows. The site is updated constantly throughout the day (with an average of 6-10 posts a day) and attracts a core group of devoted readers. Design*Sponge currently has over 60,000 daily readers.

Heather Armstrong

Dooce

Heather Armstrong is an award-winning blogger, New York Times bestselling author and listed as one of the top women in media by Forbes.

Zadi Diaz

Epic Fu

"Geek" culture is what we're about, and it's the new cool culture for this generation. Being a geek is all about having a passion for something--films, bands, technology, video games, going green--and that passion makes you totally kick ass! EPIC FU is all about stoking the flames of geek passion, and therefore improves your kick to ass ratio with every viewing. Created by Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf, EPIC FU is a new way of thinking about popular culture -- it's about conversation and interaction. Entertainment is a two-way street now. EPIC FU is a two-time Webby Award Winner, four-time Webby Award Nominee, a Streamy Award Winner, and is considered one of the most respected original web series on the Internet.

Rebecca Paul

Inhabitat

Inhabitat is an online magazine devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and design towards a smarter and more sustainable future. Written by a young tech-savvy team designers and design journalists, Inhabitat delivers fresh content daily, showcasing emerging work from the cutting-edge of the global design community.

Dan Mendes

Inhabitat

Inhabitat is an online magazine devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and design towards a smarter and more sustainable future. Written by a young tech-savvy team designers and design journalists, Inhabitat delivers fresh content daily, showcasing emerging work from the cutting-edge of the global design community.

Kipkay

Make Magazine

MAKE Magazine brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. We celebrate your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will. Kipkay has made something of a name for himself with his numerous how-to, hacks, and tech-oriented pranks videos.

Mashable

Founded in July 2005, Mashable is the world's largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Media news. With more than 15 million monthly page views, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what's new on the web and offering social media resources and guides.

Margaret Mason

Mighty Girl

Maggie Mason is the author of No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog, publisher of Mighty Mighty Media, and a Twitter power user (@Maggie). Her personal blog, Mighty Girl was recently nominated for a SxSW Lifetime Achievement Award, and she was named one of Silicon Valley's Top 50 Influencers by Now Public.

Jean Aw

NOTCOT

JEAN AW Founder of NOTCOT: Concept, Content & Creative, Editor-In-Chief of the NotEmpire*. . . Design Addict + UX Designer + Shopaholic + Tech Connoisseur + Design Writer + World Traveler

*NotEmpire = not an empire, composed of NOTCOT.com, NOTCOT.org, NotCouture.com, and Liqurious.com

Asha Dornfest

Parent Hacks

Asha Dornfest is the founder of Parent Hacks -- where savvy parents swap clever, often unconventional, parenting tips. Here's the practical, real-world stuff you'll never find in an "expert" book. Featured in Real Simple, Parents, and PC Magazine.

Remodelista

Remodelista is a one-stop sourcebook for the considered home, guiding readers through the design and renovation process with features such as Steal This Look, 10 Easy Pieces, and Architect Visits. Founded by four friends with a shared design DNA and appreciation for intelligent design, Remodelista counts architects, design professionals, and style-conscious consumers among its daily audience. The Remodelista aesthetic favors classic and livable over trendy and transient, well-edited interiors over cluttered environments, and thoughtfully designed products over mass-market, disposable goods.

Serious Eats

Serious Eats is a website focused on celebrating and sharing food enthusiasm through blogs and online community.Our unique combination of community and content brings together the distinctive voices of food bloggers, compelling original and acquired food video, and sp irited, inclusive, conversations about all things food- and drink-related.

Suzanne Rowan Kelleher

WeJustGotBack.com

Suzanne Rowan Kelleher is a family travel expert and mom of three. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of WeJustGotBack.com, an award-winning family vacation planning site and one-stop resource for traveling with kids.

Gregory Go

Wise Bread

Gregory Go is cofounder and tech guru for Wise Bread, a community dedicated to living large on a small budget. Gregory loves technology that makes his life easier and more fun.

Linsey Knerl

Wise Bread

Linsey is the Community Manager for Wise Bread, a community dedicated to helping folks live large on a small budget. Linsey loves savvy tech solutions that help her share the world with her children.

Ken Kaplan

Intel

Ken Kaplan a broadcast and social media strategist and producer inside Intel Corporation's Global Communications Group. He helps the Consumer and Social Media team tell stories and connect with online media by producing videos, photos and other online communication. Much of his work can be seen on the Intel Pressroom, Channelintel on YouTube, Intel Fan Page, and Intel blogs such as Technology@Intel and Inside Scoop. Prior to Intel, he worked as a publicist for eight years at then NBC-affiliate, KRON-TV. He graduated from California State University, Chico, where he studied journalism, philosophy and economics. More about his approach to public relations in this interview. You can find him on:

• Twitter www.twitter.com/kenekaplan
• Facebook www.facebook.com/kenekaplan
• LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/kenekaplan