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COPYRIGHT 2005 Chicago Tribune
Byline: James Coates
"Tell me, Mr. Computer Answer Person, how can I set up my own Web site so that I can be as rich as Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, as famous as the newly released felon at MarthaStewart.com, and as powerful as those bloggers who toppled Dan Rather?"
Believe Mr. Computer Answer Person when he tells you that this country is filled with folks who fantasize about taking their dreams and schemes onto their own corners of the Web.
Mr. Computer Answer Person has a neighbor who wants to be a cult figure with her own advice column posted on a "virtual mother" Web site. He has another friend with a kid who dreams of selling a glorious form of granola from a Web store, and yet another neighbor with a scheme to establish an online co-op...
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