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3 Minute Interview-Pagnucco
By: Kathleen Miller
Examiner Staff Writer
December 22, 2008
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How did you first get into blogging?
By accident. In 2006, I wrote an essay about the Apple Ballot [list of teachers union endorsements for local office] and it wound up on a couple blogs.
Who are your readers?
They tend to be insiders: politicians, staffers, activists, lobbyists — anybody that is really is interested in the internal workings of county or state government.
What do you like most about it?
Hearing from the readers. I like getting calls and e-mails that say either “that was good,” “you missed something,” or “I know something more.” This is how our network of informants is developed. These readers are almost all smarter than I am, and I really enjoy the give-and-take we have over issues.
Dislike anything?
The work. It can take me three hours to write something that takes three minutes to read, but you have to make that investment.
What’s been the most viewed post?
When we announced [President-elect] Barack Obama’s final rally in Manassas the night before Election Day, that got well over 5,000 visits. No contest. You can put a whole lot of research into a blog post, but if it doesn’t interest readers, you don’t get hits. On the other hand sometimes you throw up a simple announcement and it explodes.
Has it changed your views on government?
It helps educate me about how things are really run: how important interpersonal relationships are to other things [and] how important it is to leverage those relationships to get things done.
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