When former Saint Vincent de Paul High School sweethearts Mena and Ben Trott met as teens right here in Petaluma, Sonoma County, who knew it would lead to an internationally renowned creative partnership that would reshape significant social media markets?
In an open letter to their decade-old Six Apart Typepad blog customers located all around the world, the San Francisco based entrepreneurial couple have announced the formation of a new, modern media company collaboration with VideoEgg, now called SAY Media.
What does this mean for hyper local content sites such as Southern Sonoma Country Life and similar Typepad-based blogs and news sites that you, the loyal reader may have come to know and love?
Ideally, the massive shake-up in how we all choose to read our news and share our views will soon gradually start to take shape in a sustainable way so that content producers are able to make ends meet and improve our multi-media experiences at the same time.
And as a reminder to support your local media in print and online, here's a snippet of a clipping from Summer 2008 issue of our favorite local glossy, the Petaluma Magazine, featuring the Trotts:
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