AH: Well, thank you for saying that. First of all, I completely agree with you that we are moving to a connection economy and I believe actually that there is something in the zeitgeist that is about connection. Jonas Salk before he died told me that we are moving from epoch A to epoch B and he saw epoch A as based on competition and survival and epoch B as based on collaboration and what he called a sort of a meaning-based life and we are seeing that. We are seeing that in the people who are connecting with each other to do good. You know Biz Stone said that Twitter is a triumph of humanity not a triumph of technology. Now this is clearly still an aspirational statement. You know it's not yet a triumph of humanity, but it can be. So can facebook. You know that is the kind of future that we can work for and in order to get there we have to each make sure that we each do our part in the real world as well as accelerating the positive contagion in the virtual world.
RK: And, you're certainly leading the way there. You know there is a new article out, one that lists you as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world and it gives some pretty good in-depth information about Huffington Post. It says you have 186 employees now. I'm curious, how many of them are there to do site architecture or software or web design?
AH: Well, basically almost all of the, almost 90, I think between 86 and 90, we just made some new hires, are edit-- are basically editors and reporters. The rest are working on our technology and also in our marketing and advertising.
RK: And you're doing some very creative, innovative things there too it looks like; integrating facebook and tying together people. It just amazes me what you're doing with that. Is there a star there that you have that does that or is it a secret?
AH: We have a great senior team. We have Greg Coleman who came from Yahoo where he was head of sales, he heads our advertising team. Paul Berry heads our technology team so we have a really good senior team. The important thing, as you know, is to constantly see ourselves as a work in progress, to keep adopting while remaining true to our DNA.
RK: Now, you've got 6500 bloggers? That's incredible and so many of them are such famous people. I kind of refer to your platinum Rolodex there that you have...
AH: Well, you're one of our, we love having you cross post what you are doing on your site...
RK: Well, thank you. Yea, OpEdNews is a small site that has a tiny fraction of what yours does, but we've got our people and our vision.
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