With even Oprah joining the microblogging world, the signal to noise ratio has shifted dramatically. It’s time to set things right. First on our list – the most inspiring and informative designers and developers you can follow, in no particular order:

• Eric Meyer is known as a web standards advocate who has written numerous books on CSS, most notably “Eric Meyer on CSS”;
• Domagoj Pavlesic is an internet technology specialist who developed the Bing vs. Google web application;
• Vibor Cipan is a designer and user experience guy from Microsoft. While he’s not playing with Silverlight, he’s exploring and building new user experiences – he uses Expression;
• Joshua Porter is a interface designer specialized for social web applications. His book, “Designing for the Social Web”, gives great insight into designing user friendly web applications;
• Emanuel Blagonic published his first web page in 1997 after which he worked as a motion graphics designer. In the meantime, he has switched back to the web.
• Jason Kottke is a designer known for his extremely popular link blog, Kottke.org;
• Alen Grakalic doesn’t only use web standards in his day to day work, but also writes about advanced CSS techniques on the web design magazine, CSSglobe.

• Derek Punsalan is a freelance web designer who regularly blogs at 5thirtyone;
• Joost de Valk is a Dutch internet marketing specialist and WordPress developer responsible for some great WordPress plugins;
• Robert Basic is a PHP developer and enthusiast from Serbia, currently working toward a Bachelor of Science degree;
• Lea Alcantara is a great web designer from Canada. If you’re into personal branding, her series, “The Art of Self-Branding” is a must-read;
• Garrett Dimon a web designer and developer, as well as the founder of NextUpdate, the company developing the bug and issue tracking application, Sifter;
• Ryan Imel is a freelance web developer and blogger whose primary “weapon” is WordPress. Ryan has written articles for Copyblogger and Daily Blog Tips, and also runs Theme Playground;
• Filip Filkovic is a music video director and graphic designer wish some exceptionally crazy creative ideas;
• Collis Ta’eed is the founder of Envato and designer of the whole range of Envato projects such as PSDtuts;
• Maja Bencic is graphic and web designer with a specific style and good eye for icons;
• Marko Dugonjic is a user experience designer and frontend developer who has worked on both Krop and QBN;
• Jonathan Snook is a web developer who blogs, writes books (coauthored “The Art and Science of CSS The Art and Science of CSS) and creates web applications such as Snitter and My Mile Marker;
• Goran Radulovic is one of the web developers responsible for the great project management software activeCollab;
• Dragan Babic is the lead developer and founder of SuperAwesome, a small yet sexy web design studio;
• Paul Stamatiou is a young web developer who co-founded Skribit and is well known for his personal blog;
• Scott Doxey the lead web developer at Staples, as well as the lead developer of the Overseer CMS;
• Bryan Veloso is a web designer best known for his sometimes quite chaotic blog Avalonstar;
• Mark Boulton is a web designer who has also written for A List Apart and Think Vitamin, as well as publishing “Five Simple Steps – Designing for the Web”;
• Shaun Inman is a both a designer and developer who has created the very successful Mint web analytics program;
• Cameron Moll is a graphic designer specializing for the “normal” and mobile web. Author of “Mobile Web Design” and founder of Authentic Jobs;
• Elliot Jay Stocks is a web designer whose clients have included EMI Records and The Beatles;
• Cabel Sasser is a Mac developer and co-founder of one of the best known Mac development companies, Panic. Unison! CandyBar! Transmit! Panic!
• Dave Shea is a web designer from Vancouver and the founder of the CSS Zen Garden;
• Dan Benjamin built half of Cork’d, all of Hivelogic and the CMS that powers A List Apart;
• Jason Santa Maria is the Creative Director for A List Apart and has worked for clients such as WordPress, PBS, Miramax Films and The New York Stock Exchange;
• Molly E. Holzschlag is the “annoying standards girl”, actually one of the most notable standards advocates in the world;
• Ryan Sims is the lead designer of Virb Inc.;
• Wolfgang Bartelme is a user interface and graphic designer from Austria;
• Matt Brett is a web designer who loves working with WordPress;
• Lisa McMillan is a web designer, temporarily in hiding till her personal site relaunches;
• Dan Cederholm runs a small little studio called SimpleBits… He’s worked for some clients you may have heard of.. Google? MTV? ESPN? Blogger maybe?
• Jon Hicks designs for print and new-fangled media. The studio loves icons and logos, such as the Mahalo logo they made.

• Patrick Haney is not a sausage. He’s a user interface designer at Harvard University.
• Garrett Murray makes websites, reviews things and creates the Maniacal Rage podcast;
• Jeff Croft makes websites and loves Django;
• Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded and directed The Web Standards Project. He published A List Apart and co-founded An Event Apart. The guy just loves the web;
• Steve Smith architects user interfaces and web designs with the help of his partner, John Nunemaker;
• Paul Boag is the web strategist of Headscape and host of the Boagworld web design podcast;
• Veerle Pieters is graphic and web designer from Belgium;
• Dan Rubin is a designer and cofounder of the Sidebar Creative alongside Steve Smith, Jonathan Snook and Bryan Veloso. He’s also the co-author of “Pro CSS Techniques”;
• Daniel Burka is the Creative Director at Digg and one of the founders of Silverorange, a small web design agency in Canada;
• Dave Seah uses writing and graphic design to clarify the ambiguous and tries to express the resulting insight in words, images or tangible products;
• Jeffrey Veen co-founded Adaptive Path, led Google’s web apps user experience team, as well as managed the redesign of Google Analytics;
• Faruk Ateş is a user interface engineer at Apple, where he works on the continuous improvement of Apple’s web presence;
• Leah Culver is a software engineer at Six Apart, which acquired the startup she co-founded, Pownce;
• Mike Rundle is the co-founder of the 9rules blogging network;
• Fabio Sasso is a graphic and web designer who writes about design at Abduzeedo;
• David Airey is a graphic designer specialized in brand identity;
• Adriaan Pienaar is the co-founder of WooThemes and a real WordPress lover;
• Khoi Vinh is the design director of the online edition of the New York Times;
• Derek Powazek has worked at sites like HotWired, Blogger and Technorati. At the moment he’s splitting his time between MagCloud and a quarterly stories and art book, Fray;
• Andy Clarke is a web designer and author of “Transcending CSS”;
• Jim Coudal is the founder of Coudal Partners;
• Matt Mullenweg is the founding developer of WordPress and founder of Automattic;
• Jeff Atwood writes about programming… a lot. He’s also currently working on Stackoverflow, a join venture with Joel Spolsky;
• Joel Spolsky blogs about software at “Joel on Software” , as well as running Fog Creek Software which he co-founded with a friend;
• Kevin Marks works at Google. He was the Principal Engineer at Technorati as well as spent 5 years in the Quicktime Engineering team at Apple;
• David Heinmeier Hansson is a partner at 37signals and the creator of the web application framewrok Ruby on Rails;
• Wil Shipley co-founded the Mac software development companies The Omni Group and Delicious Monster;
• Simon Collison is a Brit who loves the web. He wrote “Beginning CSS Web Development” as well as co-authored “Blog Design Solutions” and “CSS Mastery”;
• Steven Snell is the web designer and blogger behind Vandelay Design.
• Jon Phillips is a freelance web designer by day and guitarist by night, actually the founder of Freelance Folder;
• Sebastiaan de With is a interface designer who does some awesome icon and user interface design;
• Jonas Rask is a icon designer living in Denmark. Remember the awesome icons in Microsoft Office 2008.? Yeah, he made them;
• David Lanham is both a traditional and digital artist, whose artwork and icon designs are a true inspiration;
• Nick Finck is a user experience professional and co-founder of Blue Flavor.

• Andy Budd is a user experience designer, partner at Clearleft and curator of the Dconstruct and UX London events;
• John Resig created jQuery. Nuff said;
• Jay Hilgert is a designer and blogger at BittBox;
• Senko Rasic is a web developer with a lot of experience and a small project called Sparrw in the works;
• Emily Chang is a interaction designer and co-founder of Ideacodes;
• Phill Ryu co-founded the MacHeist events;
• Scott Meinzer helps run MacHeist while working on iPhone apps at Tap Tap Tap;
• Bojan Janjanin is a web enthusiast and creator of The Do’s & Don’ts of Modern Web Design project;
• Sophia Teutschler runs a small software and development company, Sophiestication, which has some very nice Mac and iPhone software;
• Lucijan Blagonic is a professional graphic and web designer who finds himself occupied by astronomy and photography;
• Nate Whitehill is the co-founder of Unique Blog Designs;
• Nikola Plejic loves Python and PHP and while not developing for the web, studies physics;
• Marcel Molina is an engineer at Twitter and retired Rails Core member;
• Tina Roth Eisenberg runs the design blog and studio SwissMiss;
• Nathan Smith is a designer and frontend developer at Sonspring
• Walper Apai runs one of the most popular blogs about web design trends, Web Designer Depot;
• Chris Spooner is a freelance graphic and web designer who also writes about desig at the SpoonGraphics blog;
• Andrew Houle is a designer who also runs the MyInkBlog;
• Calvin Lee is the designer behind Mayhem Studios;
• Henry runs the specialized web design magazine, the Web Design Ledger;
• Alex Payne is Twitter’s API Lead;
• Jeff Finley is a partner at Go Media, the studio that also runs the GoMediaZine;
• Michael Castilla is the blogger and developer behind WPCandy;
• Liz Andrade is a web and print designer at CMDShiftDesign;
• Chris Pearson is a web designer, creator of the Thesis theme for WordPress;
• Milos Radovic is a web designer currently living in Switzerland;
• Andy Rutledge is the chief design strategist at Unit Interactive and blogger at DesignView.

Who are you following? Anyone you think we should add to this list?