The official site for recording artist and author Alanis Morissette.

Why it’s in the Showcase: This site organizes a large amount of information in an easily digestible format, using a healthy dose of HTML5 and JavaScript tools for fluid transitions and embellishments throughout the site.

Wil is widely recognized as one of the original celebrity bloggers, and is a respected voice in the blogging community. His blog WWdN has been voted “Best Celebrity Weblog” by Forbes.com, one of the 100 most influential blogs by C|Net, and “Weblog of the Year” in the bloggies. In 2009 Forbes named him the 14th most influential web celebrity. This is all amusing to Wil, who doesn’t think of himself as a celebrity, but is instead, “just this guy, you know?”

Wil Wheaton has appeared in numerous television and film roles including Stand By Me, the hit television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and recurring roles on TNT’s Leverage, SyFy’s Eureka, CBS’s The Big Bang Theory, The Guild, Falling Skies: Second Watch. Off-camera, he is the creator, producer, and host of the webseries Tabletop. He is also an author, blogger, podcaster, voice actor, widely-followed original Twitter user, and a champion of geek culture.

An incredibly popular blogger and now a New York Times bestselling author, Jenny’s blunt, incisive writing style and willingness to lay everything bare have made her a blogging favorite.

The Bloggess is by Jennifer Lawson, an American journalist, author and blogger from Wall, Texas. She is the co-author of Good Mom/Bad Mom on the Houston Chronicle and a columnist for SexIs magazine — and she’s well known for her irreverent writing style. She was recognized by the Nielsen ratings as one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Mom Bloggers and Forbes listed thebloggess.com as one of their Top 100 Websites for Women.

The official site for rapper and actor LL Cool J.

Why it’s in the Showcase: This simple one-page scrolling site with amazing imagery and AJAX-loading content allows for a clean and user friendly experience.

Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor, well known by his stage names Snoop Doggy Dogg, Snoop Dogg, and Snoop Lion. He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Snoop Dogg’s site encompasses his entire online presence and seamlessly weaves in social media, video, music, and other multimedia for a content-rich experience for all his fans.

The official website of US Air Force General Chuck Yeager, the world’s first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The subject matter, rare historic documents and unique historic full-screen background photographs, and its innovative use of jQuery.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Blondie is one of the most iconic bands ever formed. They’ve created hits like “Heart of Glass”, “Call Me”, “Atomic” and “The Tide is High” to name a few.

Why it’s in the Showcase: DaveMatthewsBand.com is built on WordPress using a custom theme and homepage curation tools. It sits on a load-balanced, Varnish-powered multi-server setup to handle the massive traffic spikes DMB receives and uses a variety of custom-developed API tools to sync media across Flickr, Facebook and MusicToday.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Sylvester Stallone uses his WordPress-powered site as a hub for fans to learn more about his acting work, appearances, and artwork.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Citizen Cope website is a one-page, smooth-scrolling HTML5/CSS3/jQuery-based site that uses WordPress as a CMS to control all site content, along with Facebook Comments, Soundcloud and other social integrations.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Bill Burr’s website is the Boston-based comedian’s hub for his fans to stay updated on his comedy, acting appearances, and podcasts. The site uses WordPress to maintain his podcast feed, blog, and tour dates.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site uses WordPress as a CMS to bring together a community of fans.

Why it’s in the Showcase:  Coulton’s WordPress-powered site is chock full of music, news and merchandise. First established in 2005, Coulton’s website keeps fans updated on his music, shows, and Thing-A-Week project updates.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Larry Kramer is the founder and Former CEO of CBS Marketwatch.com, the first president of CBS Digital, and currently sits on the Boards of Discovery Communications, Inc., American Media Inc., Freedom Communications, Inc., Answers Corp., Black Arrow Inc., Harvard Business School Publishing. Former reporter and editor for The Washington Post and San Francisco Examiner.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Russell’s website provides access to his blog, podcast, fansite, tour dates, and multiple social media accounts.

Rachel Maddow is the host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” which airs on MSNBC at 9:00 pm Eastern, Monday through Friday, and is rebroadcast at midnight Eastern.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Rachel Maddow is the host of a popular TV show and a well known political commentator.

Updated multiple times a day, stupidDOPE.com offers a wide selection of content on music, culture, fashion, arts and more. We do celebrity interviews and have contributing writers from around the world.

Why it’s in the Showcase: stupidDOPE.com is a very popular, well-designed blog that covers a wide variety of popular topics.

Sylvester Stallone has established worldwide recognition as an actor, writer and director since he played the title role in his own screenplay of Rocky, which won the Academy Award in 1976 for Best Picture.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Sylvester Stallone is a famous actor who uses WordPress to power his official website.

The official site of Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants, the new side project by Foo Fighters’ guitarist Chris Shiflett.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site for Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants is a stylish, yet simple implementation of WordPress 3.0 with a wide variety of sharing tools, GigPress integration, and SoundCloud integration with a randomized background pulling from the album package designed by The Uprising Creative.

Margaret Cho is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, gay icon, and recording artist. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race, sexuality, and sex.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Margaret Cho’s well-designed website and blog is powered entirely by WordPress.

Katy Perry is a multi-platinum American singer-songwriter and musician.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Katy Perry is a famous musician and performer who uses WordPress to power her official website.

Mike Rowe is the host of Dirty Jobs and the narrator of The Ultimate Fighter, Deadliest Catch, and Ghost Lab.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site uses WordPress to combines Flash, static content, and a forum community.

Nóirín Ní Riain is one of Ireland’s best known musicians, in one of the quietest ways possible.

The Swell Season are Glen Hansard (from the Irish band, The Frames) and Marketa Irglova (classically trained Czech pianist and vocalist). In 2008, the duo won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Margaret started performing stand-up at age 16 in a comedy club called The Rose & Thistle above a bookstore her parents ran. Soon after, she won a comedy contest where first prize was opening for Jerry Seinfeld. She moved to Los Angeles in the early ’90s and lived in a house with several other young performers.

I moved out because I wasn’t the most famous. If the Manson Family had come, I wouldn’t have been Sharon Tate; I would have been one of the supporting victims, and who wants that? Janeane Garofalo moved into my old room. Anyway, ‘Cho’ written in blood on the wall doesn’t look as cool as ‘Garofalo.’

The Mark Cuban weblog.

The official website for English actor, comedian, author, and television presenter Stephen Fry.

Felicia Day is a professional actress who has been in numerous movies, tv shows and commercials. Check out her IMDB or Wikipedia pages for credits. She also created “The Guild”, an independent web series with over 6 million hits web-wide. Her passions include video games, fantasy novels, web 2.0, wordpress, cooking, playing with her cats and making people laugh.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Felicia’s website serves as the center of her presence on the Internet. She blogs, shares her playlists, posts on Flickr, and is an active Twitter user.

Screenwriter, writer, director, actor and comic book writer, Kevin Smith’s blog.

The Martha Stewart blog – up close & personal