Best Mindcasters I Know
Tim O'Reilly
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.1,531,369 followers | Follow
ReadWriteWeb
The latest news, analysis and conversation in all things web, tech and social media from the ReadWriteWeb.com team.1,143,362 followers | Follow
david carr
David Carr, Media Equation column, blogs @ Decoder, covers pop culture at NYTimes. Tweets hi-low, news, whatnot. Author: Night of the Gun. http://amzn.to/lhYAP5355,535 followers | Follow
Robert Scoble
Technology news, videos, opinions, from an enthusiastic Rackspace employee who grew up in Silicon Valley and has interviewed more than 3,200 geeks.238,521 followers | Follow
Ezra Klein
Blogger/columnist for Washington Post, columnist for Bloomberg View, contributor to MSNBC. Eater of food. Hater of filibuster. Lover of charts.130,789 followers | Follow
Alex Howard
Gov 2.0 @Radar Correspondent, @OReillyMedia: alex@oreilly.com. Intrigued by technological change, taken with ideas, cooking, the outdoors, books, dogs and media118,653 followers | Follow
Brian Stelter
I report on TV & digital media for The New York Times. RT & links aren't endorsements. Also: @brianstelter25 bstelter@gmail.com | 212-556-4668 | 240-793-2483108,351 followers | Follow
alexismadrigal
Senior editor, @TheAtlantic. Author of Powering the Dream. @WIRED alum. @sarahrich fiancé.86,183 followers | Follow
Glenn Greenwald
72,371 followers | Follow
NYTimes Bits Blog
Tech news and analysis, plus interesting links and retweets from Times tech staff and friends. Account maintained by @davidfg.68,658 followers | Follow
Andy Carvin
Senior strategist at NPR. Online community organizer since 1994. Former director of the Digital Divide Network. Writer. Photographer. Dad.62,930 followers | Follow
Steve Rubel
EVP/Global Strategy and Insights for Edelman, media futurist, AdAge columnist and avid sports fan.62,694 followers | Follow
Jennifer Preston
Staff writer @nytimes. Interested in stories about use of technology, social media in politics, government - and real life. Tips? jepresto@nytimes.com58,957 followers | Follow
danah boyd
social media scholar, youth researcher & advocate | Microsoft Research, Harvard Berkman Center | zephoria@zephoria.org58,894 followers | Follow
Dave Winer ☮
Developed first blogging software, RSS and podcasting, outliners, web CMS. Media hacker. Boot strapper. Writer. Academic. Friendly. :-)44,572 followers | Follow
Marshall Kirkpatrick
CEO @plexusengine Writer @ ReadWriteWeb Consultant @ Marshallk.com VP @rcrwireless37,733 followers | Follow
Jennifer 8. Lee
Journalist, writer. Awesome Food trustee. Hacks/Hackers organizer. Dreaming of the future of media: The story continues. jenny@jennifer8lee.com.32,623 followers | Follow
Tamar Weinberg
mom. author. social media consultant & trainer. mashable community & sales. entrepreneur. email me via my website's contact form; i promise i'll respond.32,303 followers | Follow
Tim O'Brien
Executive Editor of HuffingtonPost. Former New York Times writer/editor. Writing series of historical thrillers for Random House.27,884 followers | Follow
Howard Rheingold
Independent thinker, online instigator, novice educator, expert learner, offline gardener.27,076 followers | Follow
Anthony De Rosa
Reuters columnist & Social Media Editor. Neighborhoodr Co-Founder.Opinions are my own, not those of Reuters. Tips appreciated, anthony.derosa@thomsonreuters.com24,269 followers | Follow
Jack Shafer
RT≠E. To sign up for email alerts to my ReutersOpinion column (and other announcements), fill out the form at http://eepurl.com/gB_ov23,753 followers | Follow
Marc Ambinder
An itinerant reporter, vice The Atlantic, National Journal, ABC News and CBS News. Nat'l security, politics, science, culture. Book out soon. Repped by WME.23,253 followers | Follow
James Poniewozik
TIME columnist, TV/popcult and media/politics. RTs are not endorsements, except for those that praise me. Opinions are not my own.23,243 followers | Follow
Dr. Mark Drapeau
I'm technically part of the Microsoft Office of Civic Innovation, but mostly I just wake up, talk to people, and drink (not necessarily in that order).20,902 followers | Follow
Greg Mitchell
Blogger for The Nation. Author of 13 books (see link below) on OWS, WikiLeaks, Beethoven, Atomic Cover-Up. Former ed. at Editor & Publisher and Crawdaddy.19,872 followers | Follow
kottke.org
Officially verified Twitter account of kottke.org, the home of fine hypertext products19,765 followers | Follow
Linda Thomas
I'm a broadcast and online journalist in Seattle, anchoring the morning news on 97.3 KIRO FM19,195 followers | Follow
emily bell
Director of Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at Columbia J School. Former guardian news & media director of digital content. Contact ebell@columbia.edu18,932 followers | Follow
Patrick LaForge
Editor, News Presentation, @nytimes. To e-mail the newsroom: nytnews at nytimes dot com.18,481 followers | Follow
Steve Silberman
Investigative reporter for Wired & other magazines, writing a book about autism/neurodiversity for Avery/Penguin 2013. One of @Time's selected science tweeters.18,349 followers | Follow
Stowe Boyd
Social Anthropologist, Clairvoyant, Postfuturist. My work is social tools and their impact on media, business, and society.16,223 followers | Follow
dwight silverman
Techblogger/columnist, blog editor @ Houston Chronicle | chron.com. Co-host of Technology Bytes radio show. TWiT panelist. Computer book author. UH instructor.15,925 followers | Follow
Ari Melber
Attorney / Nation magazine correspondent / TV / Facebook.com/AriMelber15,886 followers | Follow
Mr Anderson
Kevin Anderson, digital strategist and freelance journalist with more than a decade experience with the Guardian and the BBC.14,675 followers | Follow
Rex Hammock
Founder/CEO of media/content-marketing firm Hammock (hammock.com), wiki-wrangler of SmallBusiness.com (@smallbusiness).13,134 followers | Follow
Bora Zivkovic
Science communication: blogging, publishing, teaching. Chief Editor and Community Manager of Scientific American science blogging network.11,787 followers | Follow
Charlie Beckett
Journalist, Director of Polis, the media think-tank at the LSE & author of 'WikiLeaks: News In The Networked Era' & 'SuperMedia'8,702 followers | Follow
Tim Carmody
I write about technology & media for Wired.com's Epicenter & sometimes the magazine. Resident bookfuturist at Snarkmarket. Recovering PhD. Dad.8,152 followers | Follow
Ellen Miller
Co-Founder and ED of Sunlight Foundation. Also founder of Center for Responsive Politics and Public Campaign. Money, power, influence and transparency expert.8,065 followers | Follow
Zeynep Tufekci
Technosociology: our tools, ourselves... Assistant professor of sociology.8,021 followers | Follow
Shirley Brady
Journalist, Glasgow girl, mom, muse. Catch me over @brandchannelhub or chasing a pink scooter. All opinions are my own - or @badbanana's6,998 followers | Follow
Scott Karp
Co-founder and CEO of Publish2. The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.6,179 followers | Follow
Will Sullivan
Director of Mobile News for Lee Enterprises. @ONA Board Secretary & #ONAIssues chair. @NPPAImmersion Co-Director. Disrupter. Bears. Beats. Battlestar Galactica.6,025 followers | Follow
Kathy E Gill
Digital media educator at UofWA, study social media space; write @ TheModerateVoice, newsvine; transplanted Southerner; teach newbies to ride motorcycles!5,866 followers | Follow
Chris O'Brien
Unfrozen Cave Man Journalist. Your world frightens and confuses me. Also, Business and Technology Columnist at the San Jose Mercury News.5,832 followers | Follow
Atul Arora
Software Developer, Product Manager, @iitbombay Alum, @techmeme fan. I mostly tweet about Technology News but occasionally about India and Bollywood.5,823 followers | Follow
Dan Kennedy
I teach journalism at Northeastern University, blog at Media Nation, and try to make sense of the new media world.5,775 followers | Follow
Adam L. Penenberg
Journalist, author, professor; floccinaucinihilipilificator at heart.5,723 followers | Follow
Staci D Kramer
Staci D. Kramer is Editor, EVP, paidContent/ContentNext Media, but her real job is aunt5,681 followers | Follow
Scott Rosenberg
Executive editor, Grist.org; founder, MediaBugs.org; blogger, Wordyard.com; author, Say Everything, Dreaming in Code; Salon co-founder5,652 followers | Follow
susanmernit
Oakland, hyperlocal, news, blogger, permaculture, social media, social justice, consultant, geek, feminist, troublemaker..5,442 followers | Follow
Ryan Sholin
Product Manager, Local Sites at Gannett Digital. I make/do/talk about cool things for journalists. Also, a lot of parenting. No funny stuff.5,419 followers | Follow
Steve Yelvington
New media strategist, journalist, newsroom change trainer-coach, technology tinkerer, disruptive influence.5,116 followers | Follow
Steve Outing
Program director & founder, Digital News Test Kitchen @ CU-Boulder. Business: reinventing news. Pleasure: 2 wheels.4,694 followers | Follow
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Author of The Googlization of Everything (2011), The Anarchist in the Library (2004), and Copyrights and Copywrongs (2001).4,665 followers | Follow
roadkillrefugee
Join my noble quest to rid the world of social media experts, one Follower at a time4,540 followers | Follow
Saleem Khan
Journalist, Knight-Mozilla News Lab maker, Innovate News founder, media consultant, tech watcher, speaker, traveler. Ex CBC, Torstar, Metro Intl, chairman@CAJ4,494 followers | Follow
Mo Krochmal
Digital Educator & Founder, Social Media News NY. Digital Learning Network = #SMNNY. Contribute! Mo.Krochmal@gmail.com or 347-735-68604,311 followers | Follow
Josh Stearns
Fighting for the future of journalism through media & tech policy. Journalism & Public Media Campaign Director at Free Press.3,933 followers | Follow
christian crumlish
Hi, I'm xian! You may remember me from such books as Designing Social Interfaces and The Power of Many and such websites as Mediajunkie and Radio Free Blogistan3,895 followers | Follow
Ben LaMothe
Health system social media coordinator. Aspiring triathlete. @Orlando_Magic, @jaguarsinsider & @TBLightning fan. Native Michigander. All tweets mine.3,783 followers | Follow
John Paton
3,675 followers | Follow
Carrie Brown-Smith
U. of Memphis journalism professor, Teen Appeal (city-wide high school newspaper) director, do research on organizational change in newsrooms and social media.3,665 followers | Follow
Steve Myers
Managing editor of Poynter.org. Interested in journalism gathered and presented in innovative ways.3,206 followers | Follow
John Robinson
Former editor of the News & Record. He's strolled all alone through a fallout zone and come out with his soul untouched.2,890 followers | Follow
jonathanstray
Journalist, computer scientist, internationalist. Interactive Technology Editor at the AP. Building the @overviewproject open-source document mining system.2,758 followers | Follow
Howard Owens
Publisher, The Batavian, online-only news for Batavia, N.Y. Photoblog: vufindr.com. Personal blog: howardowens.com. Digital and film photographer.2,620 followers | Follow
John McQuaid
Journalist tweeting on the future of news, science, environment, politics, arcana. Forbes blogger. Writing a book on the science of taste.2,597 followers | Follow
Bill Mitchell
I retired early 1/1/12 from Poynter, where I worked in Entrepreneurial & International Journalism. Next up: http://hrvd.me/Detroit143.2,467 followers | Follow
Howard Weaver
Writing, editing, projects. Strategic advice for media enterprises. Ask about my Alaska memoir: Write Hard, Die Free http://goo.gl/YlcNa2,415 followers | Follow
Michele Mclellan
Journalist, Knight Circuit Rider, founder of Block by Block: Community News Summit, KDMC @USC blogger, traveler, Cambodia lover2,349 followers | Follow
Ryan Chittum
I write about the business press for Columbia Journalism Review's The Audit.2,332 followers | Follow
Russ Walker
Editor, writer, politics junkie, bad photographer ... managing editor of KING5.com.2,242 followers | Follow
Jeff Mignon
CEO of RevSquare (digital agency specialized media). Publisher of the news site for kids Kiddoki.com. Co-creator of the only dailies for kids/teens in Europe.2,218 followers | Follow
Tim Windsor
Editorial Director at Patch.com. Local news evangelist. Apple fan. Baltimorean. Georgetown Dad. Coffee fiend.2,150 followers | Follow
Chuck Peters
Iowan trying to create C3 - Complete Community Connection, noting progress at http://chuckpeters.iowa.com2,022 followers | Follow
Tracy Van Slyke
Strategic media adviser and implementer for progressive journalism and organizing groups. Proud new mama to #babyleo.1,762 followers | Follow
Zach Tumin
I run a research program at a humble institution situated in a sleepy eastern Massachusetts ville on the banks of the River Charles.1,570 followers | Follow
David Westphal
Editor-in-chief, California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting at USC1,504 followers | Follow
Rob Curley
Familyman. Journalist. Nerd. Disney lover. Music lover. Las Vegas Sun editor. Mostly personal updates here, not just work.1,468 followers | Follow
Center for Innovatio
Center for Innovation in College Media - bryan murley twittering - helping college journalism in the 21st century1,432 followers | Follow
Adina Levin
Socialtext cofounder/product mgt, social software, misc. civic ventures e.g. drivelesschallenge.com.1,424 followers | Follow
Dan Pacheco
I'm the Founder of BookBrewer.com and CEO of FeedBrewer, Inc. I have a deep background in community products, social networking & hyperlocal media.1,374 followers | Follow
Rachel Joy Larris
Women's Media Center's Communications Manager. I tweet about journalism, women's issues, Arlington, Virginia and sometimes food trucks. Views are my own.1,106 followers | Follow
Joey Baker
Journalism observer; front-end dev and designer; haphazard photographer; too infrequent backpacker; geek.941 followers | Follow
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