Tris is the Chief Technology Partner at One By One Media, and also blogs for b5 media. He started View from the Isle in April 2004. I started blogging as an outlet for my passion for all manner of Internet technologies and gadgets and now it has become an outlet for my passion to communicate with others. I was the first professional blogger for Inside Blogging and a founding member of the Professional Bloggers Association and was elected Secretary in January 2000.