CNN.com just published an interview with Mena Trott ("Pundits and knitters find common ground in Web logs"). Mena Trott is the founder of Six Apart, which owns Typepad - the hosting service for this SquirrelNet.com weblog. Typepad currently boasts millions of paying members and is doubling in size every 3-5 months. Here are some things she said in the interview:
I started my blog because I wanted to write humorous stories about my life. And I think most people have the ability to do that. And once they get over the fear that everyone's going to read it or it's going to get you fired, ... when they hear about blogs, it's always about someone getting fired. When people get fired, it's not because they keep a blog, it's because they have no judgment...
What we need to do is get people informed and make it as easy to use as e-mail. I hope it doesn't take 10 years to get that way with blogging.
That's what the Internet is to me. It has given me a voice that I had never imagined. ... There's a power you can harness if you know how to use a medium.
By the way, here original blog is still online and can be found at DollarShort.org.
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