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Blogathon 2006

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In the summer of 2000, blogger Cat Connor decided that a free weekend could be combined with a marathon session of insomnia to have some fun with her personal website. In fact, Cat decided to update frytopia every 15 minutes for an entire 24 hours, for a total of 96 posts over the course of a single day.

Armed only with a stack of movies and a case of Mountain Dew, Cat plunged headfirst into a day’s worth of blogging and wound up surviving it well enough – even earning some notoriety among her blogging associates along the way.

Along with her newfound attention, Cat came to a realization: staying up all night to update her website could represent a lot more than a caffeine-and-cinema-drenched exercise in butt-numbness. Or, in the more eloquent words of Cat herself, "I've always felt the best thing about the web was its ability to affect the real world. The web can be a major force for good."

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