But on top of that, although Scott needs to get a product that people want to use in order to get real success, I welcome his initiative and forward-thinking; great one, he’s destined for big things and I applaud him massively! Like many here, and like I already said, the story here is not so much the Wordpress template blog but the fact he thought to do it and did some PR. He needs to sustain it and tweak the product so people come back – and before that, so people sign up to use it. It’s a tough market.

I’m not sure why people have to take themselves so seriously to get negative about what I can see is no more than a good news story about a boy of 13 trying something but I guess the Internet does have some downsides.

I hope it develops really well for you and well done for getting on with something productive.

To those worrying that mowing lawns or a paper-round might be a better thing for him to be doing, where did you get the information that he HASN’T and DOESN’T do those things…?

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

It’s quite tragic to see so many adult idiots running the project down and picking petty holes in what was a remarkable act of initiative for a 13-year-old. As Steven Livingstone said, ‘If you think this is about technology, you’re missing the point’.

You’re sad, deeply insecure individuals and are in all likelihood the kind of people who are despised in your own workplaces.

To achieve this level of attention for a business is something most (including mine) can only dream of. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to find a 12-year-old kid to act as a frontman.

is scott using twitter already?

Another is the spurious claim “ScotBlog is taking an active part in forming an online community within Scotland. Something which hasn’t really been done before.” which is patently bollocks. There have been on-line Scottish communities on the Internet since 1st May 1989 (the first minority language list on the Internet BTW), the first online guide to Scotland launched in 1994, the soc.culture.scottish newsgroup launched in 1995 and for a social Scottish networking platform, take a look at the hugely successful scotsin.com I’m happy to give the credit for what the guy has achieved but not for relying on made up information to do so.

After I left this comment, I resolved the issue with Daniel and we both apologised to each other. However, TechCrunch UK or US has no way of deleting comments.

Scott.

“Wow, isn’t it impressive… Owning a business at 15. I owned my first business at 11. I am now 13 and have launched a blogging site (http://scotblog.net) but with one difference: IT DIDN’T TAKE ME OVER 3 MONTHS TO LAUNCH. It took me around 1 week. … I have spoken to Daniel before and all I can say is that he is an incredibly arrogant and spiteful individual.”

A little harsh, Scott!

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/04/15-year-old-entrepreneur-launches-teens-in-tech/comment-page-2/