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PlanetMullins Special Feature
Internet marketing expert Jill Ellsworth shares tips and thoughts about the web in a special candid interview....
The first in a series
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A foremost authority on the internet shares information in a candid interview
with Rob Mullins
CYBRSPACE-April 7,1998
This month, we are debuting a new feature section here at planetmullins: FRIENDS OF THE PLANET.
We will be featuring interviews with all types of celebrity friends on all kinds of topics. The common
thread with these people is a taste in great music, fine art, the web, and other things.
Our first featured guest is a celebrity author, Jill Ellsworth. Jill is an author, lecturer, and web authority who writes about
the internet and makes personal appearances all over the world. What follows is the transcript of our interview..RM stands for Rob Mullins,
and JE stands for Jill Ellsworth. Enjoy....
RM: Good morning Jill!
JE:: 'morning.
RM: Thanks for taking time from your schedule to do this interview
JE:: My pleasure.
RM: Without further ado, or a don't, shall we begin?
JE:: Sure.
RM: Cool..
RM: Your AOL profile says that you were "internet before internet
was cool". How did you first get interested in the online world?
JE:: Very incrementally. I started with e-mail back in the dark ages
when I was working on a Govenment project in the early 80's.
I liked email, and gained access to mainframes and started
fiddling with things like ftp and telnet.
Then I found usenet.
RM: This was before AOL existed?
JE:: Oh yes.. AOL is fairly new for me. I spent several years using
usenet, network talk
and the discussion lists for interaction before coming to AOL.
RM: The internet began as part of the usa military, didnt it?
JE:: Sort of. Bolt Barenek and Newman thought it up while Vint Cerf
was futzing around with TCP/IP. Then the military got
interested as an alternative communication system.
RM: Since you first got involved in the online world, you appear to have become very successful at it.
When did you decide that
this was something you wanted to do for a living?
JE:: I was a very traditional university professor, using the Net as a
research and scholarship tool. I discovered that I knew more
than the average prof. about it and decided (like a good little
academic) that I would write a book about that. Knowing
nothing of the publishing world, I got myself and agent, she
sold the book,
and it went on the best-seller list almost immediately. So I
decided that there was "gold in them thar hills."
RM: A lot of hype surrounds the whole WWW thing in respect to
business. How can a business person sort through the hype and start making money
using the internet?
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