Referring to the [CNN interview with Mena Trott](http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/08/10/mena.trott/), a [blogger](http://www.blogebrity.com/) said to me, “heh, except that cnn article asks the usual dull questions.” Maybe dull to the blogosphere, but not to the millions of people that are just getting blogging. When asked, “What do you think the Internet’s biggest impact has been?,” [Mena](http://flickr.com/photos/tags/menatrott/interesting/) said, ” that ability to communicate with anybody . . .”
And that ability to blog about anything with anybody give us blogs about business, hobbies, pets, and everything else. Recent examples include
* [Purls and Pugs](http://aswanson.typepad.com/knit/) — a knitting and pet blog all in one (add something about web 2.0 and that’d be over the top!)
* [Greener Building](http://www.greenerbuilding.org/) — a blog for better buildings
* [43People](http://danmccomb.43people.com/) — I’m one of the 43 people Dan has/will meet.
It’s also much of what we’re writing about in our [book](/book/), explaining blogging to a retiring executive, Betty in accounting, and a small business owner.
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Dan McComb 11.23.05 at 11:20 am
Really liked reading the CNN interview. The promise of the Internet, to me, has always been about the radical democratization of information, of speech, and the resulting impact that’s going to have on our society. It’s happening slower than I thought it would, but it’s happening, and blogs are a huge part of that.