Meg Hourihan
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Meg Hourihan is the cofounder of Pyra Labs, the company that launched the Blogger personal blogging software that was acquired by Google. She published weblogs at Megnut.com and meg.hourihan.com[1]. She co-founded Kinja along with Nick Denton of Gawker Media.
She is the co-author of We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs (ISBN 0-7645-4962-6), and a frequent speaker at technical conferences concerning online journalism and the role of women in technology. Hourihan was named a Young Innovator Who Will Create the Future in 2003 by MIT's Technology Review magazine. PC Magazine named Evan Williams, Paul Bausch, and Hourihan — the Blogger team — as People of the Year in 2004.
She was a member of the RSS Advisory Board from 2006 to 2007.
Hourihan married fellow blogger Jason Kottke on March 25, 2006.[2] Their son, Ollie, was born on July 3, 2007. Their daughter, Minna, was born September 21, 2009.
[edit] External links
- meg.hourihan.com, her personal blog (last posting, June 2006)
- Megnut.com, her food blog
- Interview on Memory Lane
[edit] References
- ^ San Francisco Chronicle (2008-05-11). "In parenthood, sometimes a blog is born". http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/11/BUO2105T1A.DTL&hw=Ellen+Lee&sn=067&sc=123. Retrieved 2008-12-01.
- ^ http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/06/05/060605ta_talk_mead New Yorker "Meg and Jason" by Rebecca Mead
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