Jeffrey Feldman is the author of two books on politics and language, ("Framing the Debate," 2007; "Outright Barbarous," 2008) and editor in chief of the influential political blog Frameshop (http://frameshopisopen.com). Dr. Feldman has a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, which he applies broadly to the analysis of media, politics and communication. He has been a frequent guest on the Thom Hartmann Program, Action Point with Cynthia Black, The Peter B. Collins Show, The Current (CBC Radio) and CBC Newsworld. He lives and teaches in New York City.

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.

As a Daily Kos contributing editor, Michael Lazzaro, 38, —a.k.a. ”Hunter”—has gained a reputation for passionate, explorative, and offbeat progressive writing. His wide-ranging essays and editorials are alternately probing and combative, provide stirring defenses of progressive and liberal ideals, and frequently explore the underlying dynamics of the progressive and liberal online communities themselves. An Internet consultant who currently makes his home in rural Northern California with his wife, child, and a varying assortment of animals, Michael helped design and build some of the very first e-commerce sites on the emerging World Wide Web.

Pam Spaulding is the Durham, NC-based founder of the award-winning political blog PamsHouseBlend.com. She has also guest blogged on Firedoglake and for Glenn Greenwald at Salon. Pam was named one of Huffington Post's Ultimate Game Changers in Politics, received the Women's Media Center Award for Online Journalism, and was named one of the OUT 100 for 2009. This year Pam also landed on Politics Daily's Top 25 Progressive Twitterers list.