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A friend has sent you a link to the following article: http://mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/1319/ There is a lot less to know than you might think. Mac360 was started in early 2004 as a web log by Tera Jean Patricks and a few of her friends. About Mac360 The site is one of the few Mac-oriented web sites which is actually running on a Macintosh, albeit a very fast Mac. We use an Intel Xserve hosted at ServerLogistics in California. Content for the site is powered by ExpressionEngine. Mac360 was the first commercial Mac site to utilize the power and flexibility of the highly touted content management system. About Us Mac360 originated on a sunflower iMac in early 2004 using a beta of ExpressionEngine. Founder and technobabe, Tera Jean Patricks blogged Macs for a few months, then grabbed the mac360.com domain, and coerced enlisted the help of a few friends to run the site. That included me. Tera died in the summer of 2006. Alexis Kayhill Alex is a Mac user who lives with husband and daughter in sunny San Diego. She is dubbed the Value Vixen™ for her ability to find the least expensive Mac software. That means she’s cheap. Or, rather she prefers value software. Kate MacKenzie LIving in New York, “Kate Mac” is Mac360’s reigning Queen of Spice™ and loves to skewer the ill informed technomedia journalists. Actually, all of us at Mac360 love to do that. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Whatever that means. It’s fun. It’s easy. Kate and I have worked together in the public relations field for almost a decade. She’s a photographer and, like me, a technogadget freak. She and Ron work together to create content for web sites. Sometimes I help. Sometimes I don’t. Ron McElfresh The first Mac360 site was hosted on Ron’s sunflower iMac on his desk in Hawaii. Ron develops content for web sites which use dynamic content management systems, such as the popular ExpressionEngine, WordPress, and Joomla. Interestingly, his own site, RonMcElfresh.com is coded by hand in basic HTML and is served on a Mac mini. On his desk. His family web site, McElfresh.org, is a stock version of Apple’s iWeb ‘08 application, part of the iLife suite. That site is served on a Mac, too-- using Apple’s .Mac web site hosting. Ron is so old he remembers when Moses came down from the mountains with the 15 Commandments. He’s sure Moses dropped one of the 3 tablets and it broke, hence the 10 Commandments we know. Bambi Brannan That would be me. I live in Las Vegas and work in public relations, sometimes with Kate and Alex. You’ll find more information about me, Tera, and Mac360 in the old About section. You gotta love FAQs I’ve used Macs for 20 years. That’s longer than anyone on the staff except Ron. Don’t forget how old he is. Contributing Writers From time to time we receive and publish articles about Macs from others. That includes Jack and Carol Miller in St. Louis, long time friends of Ron. Kate’s significant other, Wil Gomez, all so contributes. So does Jeffrey Mincey of Atlanta, and Natalia Nowak of Chicago. About PanGeo PanGeo Media is a media content producer, developer, publisher, and distributor of news, information, and entertainment. PanGeo realizes revenue from media development and services, and from advertising. PanGeo Media creates, develops, publishes, and markets a rich collection of news, information, entertainment and editorial content on a number of internet sites. Content is distributed to readers, listeners, and viewers in the US, Asia, and Europe. The sites publish news, current events, headlines, reviews, interviews, commentary, entertainment, fiction, as well as timely and valuable lifestyle information. Content features text, rich graphic displays, audio programs, and streaming video productions. PanGeo Media provides value to advertisers by managing a growing list of branded Internet properties that work as direct marketing vehicles for clients. PanGeo Media is a division of The McStar Group, Honolulu, HI.