'US and World Politics Interview'

Name of your website?

US and World Politics

Your name?

Lino Triestino

Your Location (city, etc)

Los Angeles

Please give us a short summary of your website?

A record of the more significan, entertaining, insightful, and perhaps also personally revealing views, expressed in dialogue form, by the chatters of the Boston Tea Party chat room at the following url:

http://www.chatting.vg/FindTheActionFrame.html

Chatters must register first.

What inspired you to launch your own website?

Chatters were interested in seeing what they said, so I published what they said online.

When did you launch your first website, and what was it?

This one about three years ago

How did you decide on a name for your website?

Since we mostly discuss world and US politics, I decided to name it "US and World Politics."

What makes it different from other, similar offerings?

I don't know of any other, similar offerings. This site records and preserves informed opinions, in dialogue form, expressed by chatters in this real-time, non-forum chat room. Its value is that dialogue is valued because the ideas are arrived by thinking on one's feet.

What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)

Self-reflective record/history. A form and style of communication prevalent among some citizens who express themselves differently than in in a non-chatroom form.

How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?

The time and money is well spent.

If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?

I would not.

If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?

Unknown

What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?

None

What has been your biggest challenge?

Culling out the extraneous and irrelevant comments and keeping only those that are on topic, and compiling and editing for clarity and readability.

What method has been most successful for promoting your website?

None

How has running your website differed from your expectations?

Has not.

How long have you run the site already, and how long will you continue to keep it up if you don't enjoy big gains in traffic, income or popularity?

For three years, and indefinately.

Replace this with a question of your own

Q: What is your opinion of President Bush's wild-eyed assertion that he has prevented terrorists from entering the US?

A: Bush got in.

What is your website address?

US and World Politics

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