Meg Hourihan is a writer and technologist with more than eight years of experience in Web design and application development. Hourihan is also a highly regarded expert on all things weblog -- from their social implications to the development of advanced blogging systems. Her work as the co-founder and director of development at Pyra Labs led to the creation of Blogger, the popular weblogging tool that fueled the current blogging explosion. Hourihan is a regular speaker at technology conferences and she is the co-author of, "We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs." She is also a monthly columnist for the O'Reilly Network. Hourihan recently moved to New York City to direct a new media project. You can keep up with her at www.megnut.com.