I want to start interviewing successful forum and website creators and posting the interviews on my blog. What would be a good way to find the best websites as well as getting in touch with the creators and owners of the forum/site? I also would like to monetize this somehow other than using adsense or selling products from amazon. Any advice will be helpful!
Check out the sold section on Flippa. The sellers who've made succesful sales of websites are probably pretty astute.
You can actually search on google for other people's interviews (to see which people actually are up for that) and contact them to see if they would do another interview with your site/blog.
You want to interview webmasters who are truly successful at getting good traffic, not the ones who say they are. Or, noobs who say they are, without checking their background first. Sending e-mails to the webmasters of forums over at big-boards.com is a great start. You could also look up the keywords interviews and the site's name. Like, say, Askmen. That was a good interview. Then copy and paste it into your site. BUT, give credit to where it came from. You could have a slew of past interviews like this.