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.

Influential blog run by Andrew Sullivan, a leading writer and political commentator known for being an early advocate of same-sex marriage. He was also an early blogger and involved in its growth as a medium.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Andrew Sullivan is a blogging icon, pulling many visitors over a long period of time. The site was recently migrated to WordPress.com VIP hosting.

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.

Why it’s in the showcase: The 4-Hour Body site looks completely unique and custom, and accomplishes this simply through custom CSS and Javascript—peel that away, and you’ll find it’s built on top of the Twenty Ten theme.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The 4-Hour Chef site looks completely unique and custom, and accomplishes this simply through custom CSS and Javascript—peel that away, and you’ll find it’s built on top of the Twenty Ten theme.

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 VA Loan Center uses a custom theme and plugins to use WordPress as a CMS to get it touch with and provide information about home loans to veterans in the United States.

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: The site uses WordPress as a CMS and a customized theme to create a uniquely branded experience that includes a blog, social media presence. and online store.

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

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site’s simple, handwritten-style design uniquely reflects the humanistic nature of process work.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Charles Barkley is a famous former NBA player who uses WordPress to power his official website.

Markwebber.com is the official website for F1 racing driver Mark Webber. It’s the best source of Webber news, On and Off the Track, and the only place you’ll get Mark’s personal preview of every F1 race. You can also see the latest photos, watch videos, buy gear exclusively available on site and follow Mark’s Twitter feed. Get the inside word, straight from the man himself.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The website is the official website of Australian F1 star Mark Webber, who drives for Red Bull Racing along with world champion Sebastian Vettel. This website uses WordPress as a CMS to power news and shopping sections, as well as newsletters and countdowns. According to the developers, the popular site receives traffic from 189 countries around the world.

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.

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.

Site for the world-class saxophonist James Carter — where fans can find audio excerpts from his latest work, a biographical video, and discography. Carter has won the critics’ choice award for baritone saxophone three years in a row from Down Beat magazine. He has played on albums with Cyrus Chestnut, Wynton Marsalis and the Mingus Big Band.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Jamescarterlive.com demonstrates the flexibility of WordPress in how a very artistic, non-blog, site can be developed on the platform.

Kate Rusby is an English folk singer and songwriter from Penistone, South Yorkshire. Sometimes known as The Barnsley Nightingale, she has headlined various British national folk festivals, and is regarded as one of the most famous English folk singers of contemporary times. In 2001 The Guardian described her as “a superstar of the British acoustic scene.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Kate Rusby is a major singer in the UK and has a well-designed website featuring a variety of content that is powered by WordPress.

pmarca is the personal blog of Marc Andreessen, who is best known as the co-founder of Netscape.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Marc Andreessen is a well known Internet entrepreneur who has been involved with a number of notable companies.

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.

Welcome to Ismail Faruqi Online, the official biographical website of Dr. Isma’il al-Faruqi. Dr. Isma’il Raji al-Faruqi (January 1, 1921 – May 27, 1986) is a renowned Palestinian-American philosopher who is widely recognized by his peers as an authority on Islam and comparative religion.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Dr. Faruqi is a recognized scholar and notable person in the study of Islam and comparative religion.

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.

Robert X. Cringely is the pen name of both technology journalist Mark Stephens and a string of writers for a column in InfoWorld, the one-time weekly computer trade newspaper published by IDG, which is now entirely electronic.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Writing as Robert X. Cringely, Mark Stephens has contribued to a variety of major publications, including The New York Times, Forbes, and Newsweek. His popular blog is powered by WordPress.

Mike Krzyzewski is an American basketball coach. He led the U.S. men’s national basketball team to a gold medal at the the 2008 Summer Olympics, and is also the coach of the Duke Blue Devils men’s basketball team. Nicknamed “Coach K,” Krzyzewski has led the Blue Devils to 3 NCAA Championships, 10 Final Fours (third most in history), and 11 ACC Championships over 28 seasons at Duke.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Mike Krzyzewski is a nationally known sports figure and the fact that his official website uses WordPress to display a wide array of content is notable.

Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, record producer, and musician. He has been requested by such artists as Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Pussycat Dolls, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige and Lionel Richie.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Rodney Jerkins is a notable individual within the music industry and chose WordPress to power his entire website. Additionally, the site uses the WordPress framework to create login-based access to exclusive content like webisodes and music downloads.

Mitchell Baker is the Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Internet.

Why it’s in the Showcase: As a highly notable person within the Mozilla Foundation (the organization behind the Firefox web browser), Mitchell’s well-designed blog is certainly notable.

Stopdesign is the creative outlet of Douglas Bowman. I am passionate about design, typography, and the media and tools of my craft. I’m currently Visual Design Lead at Google, where I get to play with and design for products that break new ground, enabling people to connect with information and do things of which they never dreamed.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Douglas is an influential designer who has designed notable sites and products such as Google Calendar and Blogger.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Even though blogs are getting more and more common among politicians, they are still relatively uncommon. Bildt’s popular and frequently updated blog is both unique and notable.

John Chow is best known for showing the power of blogging by turning his blog into a case study to prove that you can make money by blogging. John took his blog from zero to making $40,000 per month in just two years. Tens of thousands of people read the John Chow dot Com everyday to find the latest ways to make money by blogging. That, and they want to find out what he had for dinner.

Why it’s in the Showcase: John serves as the quintessential example of the financial power of blogging and has made it his job and his hobby to tell others just how to make the most of blogging.

Andrew Dubber’s New Music Strategies attempts to unpick and explain what’s going on in the online music environment – and from that, develop strategies to help independent musicians and music businesses cope and thrive in a changing media environment.

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.

delicious:days is our playground and will let you take a peek into our steamy kitchen, mouthwatering recipes and delightful nibbles included, all served on a tasty plate. Can you say yum?

Real Dan Lyons – aka Fake Steve Jobs.

The Mark Cuban weblog.

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