Prior to the start of the Beyond Blogging 2006 event in Washington DC on May 19, I sat down with Greg Gershman of BlogDigger to talk about what Beyond Blogging means to him and what he was looking to get out of the event. We spoke briefly about the remix culture and Creative Commons licensing - they have a Creative Commons search feature which is now in beta . Finally we spoke for a few minuntes about BlogDigger, his Baltimore based Blog search engine and the maturation of Blogging.

One of the great things about the technology market today is that there can be many companies offering somewhat similar services to different types of niches. The defintion of success is no longer IPO (particularly with Sarbanes Oxley). Companies are developing their own niche markets and learning to operate efficiently, perhaps even proftiably! They can build a solid business that provides for a nice life without all the haslles of being big and going public by working the Long Tail to the fullest of its potential.

I don’t know how big BlogDigger will ultimately become, but I can tell you that Greg Gershman is uber smart and has the potential for greatness with whatever he does. So don’t count him or any of the other competitors out in this nascent market.

Note: The interview is 8:28 in length.

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