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TypePad changed the life of this lawyer : The origins of LexBlog

By Kevin OKeefe

Picked up Steve Rubel 's Tweet this morning on TypePad changing so many lives. Steve was referencing TypePad's 5 year anniversary celebration. Launched in October, 2003, TypePad, a web based blog publishing platform, brought blogging to the masses with an easy to use subscription based service. Prior to then techies and their friends were blogging on software they loaded to servers. In November 2003, I was working under a workshop light off the top of a door I laid across two files in my garage. Oil-filled electric radiators kept me moderately warm. To say I was 'working' would be a stretch. Having been fired by LexisNexis a year earlier after selling my previous company to them and nearing the end of my covenant not to compete, I was playing around on the net 12 or 16 hours a day trying to figure out what I was going to do...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on October 14, 2008 (boomark / email).