Setelah mencari dari beberapa referensi, saya akhirnya menemukan 10 blogger terbaik dunia di bidang teknologi. Di bawah ini adalah kesepuluh blogger tersebut yang disertai foto dan profil singkatnya
No | Nama Blogger | Profil Singkat |
| 10 | Thomas Ricker  | Thomas Ricker berkontribusi besar kepada Engadget.com yang didirikan pada 2004. Kontribusinya ini menjadikan engadget sebagai salah satu blog terbaik dunia yang membahas seluk beluk gadget. Ciri khas blog ini adalah artikelnya ditulis dengan gaya lucu dan kasual, namun tidak menurunkan sisi informatifnya. |
| 9 | Om Malik  | Om Malik disebut-sebut sebagai simbol impian Amerika modern. Besar di New Delhi dan berimigrasi ke Amerika Serikat pada 1986, Malik dengan cepat menangkap peluang bisnis internet dan pada tahun 1994 membuat beberapa website. Seiring berjalannya waktu, Malik memfokuskan diri pada bidang teknologi. Sekarang ini dia dikenal sebagai pendiri Giga Omni Media dan editor eksekutif di blog GigaOM, yang mengupas seputar Web 2.0. Blog ini dikenal sebagai salah satu blog yang berpengaruh di internet. |
| 8 | Eric Savitz  | Eric Savitz merupakan editor majalah Barron (yang membahas informasi finansial dan perkembangan pasar) dan dikenal luas secara online dari blognya Tech Trader Daily Blog. Di blognya ini, Savitz membahas seputar teknologi dan investasi. |
| 7 | Mark Evans  | Mark Evans adalah seorang blogger Kanada, pendiri Mark Evans Tech. Selain membahas seputar teknologi di blognya tersebut, ia juga dikenal luas sebagai konsultan marketing, komunikasi, dan media sosial. Sebelumnya Evans selama puluhan tahun bekerja sebagai wartawan teknologi di National Post dan Bloomberg. |
| 6 | Kara Swisher  | Kara Swisher adalah wanita yang melek teknologi. Ia menuliskannya di blognya Boom Town. Sisi menarik blog ini adalah adanya sesi Marketplace dan Wall Street (bursa saham). Sebelum dikenal sebagai blogger, Swisher merupakan wartawan bidang internet di beberapa surat kabar ternama dan berhasil menyelenggarakan beberapa konferensi seputar dunia digital. Ia juga berkali-kali mewawancarai tokoh terkenal seperti Bill Gates dan Steve Jobs. |
| 5 | Mike Masnick  | Mike Masnick adalah pendiri Techdirt. Blog ini mulai dikenal tahun 2005 setelah mempublikasikan artikel The Streisand Effect, yaitu istilah baru mengenai penyensoran material online. Seiring berjalannya waktu , blog yang didirikan tahun 1997 ini berkembang pesat dan menerima penghargaan Best of the Web darai Business Week dan Forbes. |
| 4 | Hendry Blodget  | Hendry Blodget adalah editor Silicon Alley Insider, blog yang membahas teknologi dan tren bisnis. Kepopuleran Hendry sekarang ini ditopang oleh keakuratan prediksinya pada tahun 1990-an yang menyatakan bahwa harga saham Amazon akan mencapai US $ 400. Prediksi ini menjadi kenyataan pada tahun 2000. |
| 3 | Marshall Kirkpatrick  | Marshall Kirkpatrick sebelumnya bekerja sebagai penulis di TechCrunch. Sekarang ini ia adalah wakil direktur bidang pengembangan konten di ReadWriteWeb, blog seputar teknologi yang didirikan tahun 2003. Blog ini masuk 20 blog terbaik dunia dan menjadi blog otoritas di bidang Web 2.0 |
| 2 | Larry Dignan  | Dignan sekarang ini adalah editor ZDnet dan TechRepublic. Ia mulai menulis sejak tahun 1995 untuk Wall Street Week dan The New York Times. Sejak membuat ZDnet, ia focus membahas isu-isu teknologi. |
| 1 | Michael Arrington  | Nomor wahid diduduki oleh Michael Arrington. Dia adalah pendiri TechCrunch, blog yang membahas seputar teknologi dan memiliki lebih dari 3,5 juta RSS Subscriber. Berkat blognya ini, Arington dianugerahi sebagai orang paling berpengaruh di internet oleh Wired dan Forbes. |
Websites Teaching Blogging:
ProBlogger
Problogger offers all the advice new bloggers will need to improve their newly created blog. With subjects covering almost everything anyone would ever need to know about, there is little reason to use Google to find it.
CopyBlogger
Copyblogger offers some great tips, tricks and advise on how to write better blog posts, create better blog copy and all in all, a better blog. A definite recommendation for the more advanced blogger taking it up a notch.
How To Make My Blog
They teach everything you need to know about starting your own blog (if my eCourse wasn’t enough) – a great resource for anyone wanting to set up, customize and launch there blog.
WP Beginner
All the Wordpress customization tutorials you will need to improve your blog can be found here, a great stop for anyone who just installed their first blog.
Blogussion
Blogussion is run by 16 year old Alex Fraiser and his blog serves differently to most “make money online blogs”. He offers great how to advise to customise and improve your blog as well as offering a great insight into how other blogs make it big.
Daily Blog Tips
Daily blog tips to creating a better blog, covering all the new blogging guidelines, updates and tricks as they come out.
David Risley
A great insight to how a six figure blogger makes money online – sharing tips, advice and news from someone who has been there and done that.
Blog Design Websites
Smashing Magazine
SmashingMagazine is a great resource for anyone who wants to create a better, more user friend website. Quite often people think design websites are just for designers but I have got my best ideas from looking through them so take advantage of this huge site.
WebDesignerDepot
WebDesigerDepot is great for design inspiration and ideas on how to make your blog design unique, which is critical to the success of a business, making it unique to all the other zombie type businesses.
CSS Tricks
The code behind websites is just as important as the design because if you have bad code, you will have a slow website. Something I found out with my first website I built and so learning all the best ways to code and style things is important.
Net Tuts+
Nettuts is a really cool blog, one of the Tutsplus network, owned by Collis Ta’eed. Another great website teaching coding, web development and design tutorials.
WebDesignerWall
WebDesignerWall had some really well in depth content about the creation of websites and resources for making your website. It’s important to learn the process behind building a website so that you can understand how to make it better.
Website Optimization
UX Booth
UXbooth is run by 4 young web enthusiasts and they teach people how to basically get more out of the reader and make their experience on your website better.
Yoast
Yoast is run by Joost and he teaches through his blog how to tweak your website to improve you search engine rankings and create a better experience for the reader.
SEO Book
SEO is really important, so many internet marketers say SEO is dead and to not worry about it, that is complete BS. If it wasn’t for search engines, I wouldn’t earn even half of what I do today because my traffic would be so much lower. SEObook has all the tutorials would you need to optimize your website for search engines.
SEO Moz
SEOmoz is also another really big SEO website that I use regularly, they offer lots of tools, tips and tutorials for you to use to get better search engine rankings.
Make Money Online
Quick Sprout
Run by Neil Patel who is one of the top young entrepreneurs and most influential bloggers in the world – shares great advice in large in depth blog posts, covering everything you would need to know!
Dosh Dosh
Although not updated much these days, is a great stop for anyone who wants to make money online include tutorials and tips to making more then you first thought was possible.
Entrepreneurs Journey
Run by Yaro Starak of Blog Mastermind – this blog is a great read and includes everything from when he first started out online to where he is now, earning 6 figures a year from blogging and from his membership websites.
Warrior Forum
Warriorforum is basically where all Internet entrepreneurs hang out, including beginners and people who are making 8 figures a year online. I recommend to anyone who wants to make money online to check it out and join in the conversation, can be a great place to find people with similar goals who want to work together.
Blogs To Aspire To Be Like
The below 3 bloggers have all been interviewed by me and for good reason, they are doing some really cool things which others should include in their blogging model.Marketing With You
Internet Marketing Speed
Gary Vaynerchuk
have to check out Blogging To The Bank by Rob Benwell. In his book, the UK millionaire blogger reveals step by step how he makes as much as $90,480 a month from just a few hours work.
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