Jesse Taylor founded Pandagon.net in 2002, and his only regret is not using it as a platform to piss off more of the right people.

Former Online Communications Director for Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio, Jesse has done something that few have done in the world of liberal blogging: turned it into a steady, low-paying government job for 18 months. Suck on that, everyone who's more famous than him.

He is about to start his third year at the University of Michigan Law School, which has honed his argumentation skills to a fine point.

For instance, should you eat those fries? Maybe. Maybe not. Do whatever you want.

Marcotte rose to prominence in 2004 and 2005 as the first feminist blogger to gain traction and traffic in the larger political blogosphere. She continues to blog tirelessly at Pandagon, Slate’s Double X, and RH Reality Check. Marcotte has authored two books: It’s A Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments and Get Opinionated: A Progressive’s Guide to Finding Your Voice (and Taking a Little Action).

Marcotte has published on her unapologetically pro-choice, pro-science, progressive feminist ideas in Slate, Salon, the American Prospect, and the Guardian UK. She also podcasts on sexual health and reproductive rights weekly for RH Reality Check, the most popular reproductive rights publication online. She’s appeared on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow, the BBC, and frequently on political radio talk shows across the nation.

Lee Papa has been writing the blog The Rude Pundit since September 2003. He has performed his one-person show based on the blog in New York, Philadelphia and Calgary, and a CD is available of his show "The Year of Living Rudely." In his non-blog life, Papa is a professor of drama and playwriting at the College of Staten Island/CUNY.

Duncan Black is known as "Atrios" on his blog, Eschaton.

Kevin Drum is a political blogger for Mother Jones magazine. Prior to that he was a contributing writer for the Washington Monthly and authored their blog, Political Animal. During the 90s he was vice president of marketing for a software company in Irvine, California. He lives with his wife and two cats in Irvine.

Heather "Digby" Parton is a political writer and activist from Santa Monica, California and founder of the progressive blog Hullabaloo. She is a principal in the progressive netroots political PAC, Blue America, and serves on the board of the Progressive Congress Action Fund. Her work also appears at Salon magazine, Huffington Post, Crooks and Liars, Alternet and Our Future.org. In 2007, she accepted the Paul Wellstone Award on behalf of the progressive blogosphere at the take back America Conference.