February 2nd, 2005, Future Planning Network (FPN) chose 11 alpha bloggers. "Alpha bloggers" means originally technological mentor on the net, however, they intentionaly meant very affective bloggers to lead opinions in Japanese net world. The event was so popular that FPN site down on the day.

The chosen bloggers are;

[Rondan Blogs] (The Best Opinion Leaders)

Mr. Ichiro Yamamoto on
Kirikomi Tiachou Blog (Drawn Sword Platoon Leader)
http://kiri.jblog.org/

Mr. Finalvent on
Kyokutou Blog (Fareast Blog)
http://finalvent.cocolog-nifty.com/fareastblog/

Mr. R30 on
R30::Marketing Shakai Jihyou (R30:: Marketing Socio Critiques)
http://shinta.tea-nifty.com/nikki/

Mr. Tetsuya Isozaki on
isologue
http://tez.com/blog/

[Antena Blogger] (The Best "Antena" Leader)

Mr. Hajime Taguchi on
100Shiki.com (Dot-com of the day)
http://www.100shiki.com/

Mr. Daiya Hashimoto on
Passion for the Future
http://www.ringolab.com/note/daiya/

Mr. Koichi Orita on
Ad Innovator
http://adinnovator.typepad.com/ad_innovator/

[Tech. Blogger]

Mr. Mochio Umeda on
Eigo de Yomu IT trend (Reading IT Trend in English)
http://blog.japan.cnet.com/umeda/

Mr. Chika Watanabe on
On Off and Beyond
http://www.chikawatanabe.com/

Mr. Naoya Ito on
NDO::Weblog
http://naoya.dyndns.org/~naoya/mt/

[The Best News Site Bloggers]

Mr. Masato Kogure on
[N]Netafuru (Give you a Dope!)
http://netafull.net/

[Lady's Selection]

Ms. Ramune Murayama et al (Group Blog) on
Working Mother Style
http://www.wmstyle.jp/