Mena Trott: How blogs are building a friendlier world

http://www.ted.com The founding mother of the blog revolution, Movable Type's Mena Trott, talks about the early days of blogging, when she realized that giving regular people the power to share our lives online is the key to building a friendlier, more connected world.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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[stratvic]

Its nice to see someone in action who has a business explaining the mission of their organisation that they feel passionate about. If we all worked in fields where we felt this way about the products and services we produce we would all be better for it.

[hoomelemele]

good god is this trivial, i must be really bored.

[someweirdgayguy]

I'd do it if I had anything to write about... My life doesn't provide a ton of material...

[moonlightbeams]

i use their newest blog, it's called vox, and i'm fairly sure that they contributed equally

oh and btw australia is cool