Felix Salmon first started blogging (although it wasn’t called that at the time) when he joined Bridge News in 1999 as Latin America Editor. He would link to news stories on the wire, add snarky commentary, and do the whole thing on a fixed page in reverse chronological order.

In 2000, Felix started handcoding his own blog at geocities.com; it wasn’t long until felixsalmon.com (his personal blog) and memefirst.com (a group blog) were formed. By that time, he had been fired gone freelance, and he was careful to blog about anything but finance: that was the stuff he was paid to write.

It wasn’t until 2006 that Felix embraced his econoblogospheric destiny, launching economonitor.com for Roubini Global Economics and glorying in the title of Content Strategist. After being fired going freelance one more time, he briefly hosted his finance blog at felixsalmon.com, before originating Market Movers at portfolio.com in 2007.