David Kirkpatrick's article "What's Ahead for Tech Next Year?" in Fortune, Wednesday, December 22, 2004, observes "Bloggers will be an integral part of the nation's discourse, open-source software will give consumers more options, and outsourcing will go mainstream."
The "10 Tech Trends to Watch in 2005" issue (January 10, 2005) continues. A series of photographs and pull quotes hilight key persons in the blog industry.
- Xeni Jardin, co-editor of BoingBoing.Net , also at xeni.net
- Ben Trott, founder of 6 Apart, also at ben.stupidfool.org
- Marissa Mayer, Google consumer web products manager
- Mena Trott, 6 Apart, posting at DollarShort.Org and Not a Dollar Short and
- Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems, at blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan
- Jayson Goldman, Blogger and Google (who seems to fly low)
- Robert Scoble, Microsoft's HotMail and Spaces, blogging at scoble.weblogs.com/
- Jason Calacanis, Weblogs
Other notable blog industrialists were ...
- Peter Rojas of endgadget
- Glenn Reynolds of InstaPundit
- Black Inving of MSN Spaces
