Six Apart Co-founder Mena Trott Sees Blogs Going Mainstream

Posted on August 11, 2005

CNN has an interview with Six Apart president and co-founder Mena Trott. Six Apart is the company behind blogging and online journal tools like LiveJournal, Movable Type and TypePad. The interview touches on subjects like how she uses the Internet, why people blog and women bloggers. In the interview, Trott says she thinks blogging is going to get more mainstream and may not even be called blogging in the future. She points out that knitting blogs are huge right now. She also foresees people recording more and more of their personal life with technology.

I think that blogging is going more and more mainstream, and in 10 years I doubt it will be called "blogging." It may not even look like what we're doing today. But the whole idea [of being] able to quickly express what you want to say online is going to be still a big part of what we do.
Another big part is going to be mobile computing and devices. I use my cell phone right now to post to my Web log. I post something every day to that one with pictures of me. It's mindless, it's just something I can do really quickly and it doesn't interfere with my life at all. ...
Being able to record your life is something that I can imagine everyone [doing]. [Everyone will] have terabyte after terabyte of all these instances of their lives. And certain information is going to be available to certain groups and other will be available only to like family and other stuff will be available only to you. So in 10 years, I can fully imagine every moment of my life is documented. And the privacy will be there to prevent it from being used in a malicious way. But that I think is the biggest thing. We're going into a recording of life.

Mena has a corporate blog called Mena's Corner on the Six Apart website and a personal blog of her own. Mena also discusses the CNN interview briefly here on her Six Apart blog.