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Founder of blogging tool sounds off
Created: 05/15/2007
Video description: In the first part of a two-part interview with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg, Webware.com's Rafe Needleman discusses the tools Mullenweg's created to help blogging become a Web phenomenon, and what's going on in the blogosphere today.

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