Video by Three Pillars Media of Lincoln. Post-production by Evolve of Des Moines. Mena Trott has always been a goal-oriented individual. In college, she set her sights on getting straight ‘A’s at ...

Like so many other 20-somethings hoping to mine the Internet gold rush of the late 1990s, Mena Trott was thrown for a humbling loop by the dot-com bust, yet still craved stardom. Her unassuming ...

In the spring of 2001, Mena Trott, a Web designer in San Francisco, began a quirky Web log called Dollarshort. This was a time when hundreds of young Web designers in San Francisco were starting their ...

Mena Trott closed Big Omaha 2012 with a personal, emotion-filled talk on Friday. Admitting for the first time publicly about her separation from husband and partner, Ben, Trott gave the audience an ...

Mena Trott was in labor for 32 hours last fall before giving birth to a baby girl. To take her mind off the pain and pass the time, she walked around the hospital, listened to music - and blogged.

The weblog has now reached the point in the cultural life cycle where the word is on everybody’s lips, even if most people aren’t sure what it is. Perhaps the best way to illuminate the phenomenon is ...

It’s been quite a year for blogosphere-baroness Mena Trott. In October, Six Apart commercially launched Vox, its blogging-cum-social networking service, following a successful beta. And since then, it ...

You couldn’t blame Ben and Mena Trott for feeling satisfied, even a little smug. The couple’s San Francisco software company, Six Apart, had helped fuel one of the Internet’s hottest trends–blogging.

Christopher Allen is the founder of Alacrity Ventures. Ray Ozzie works as CEO of Groove Networks Inc. Esther Dyson is chairman of EDventure Holdings, as well as an editor at large for CNet Networks.

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