M�nica Guzm�n is the P-I's first online reporter and the main contributor to its new online project, the Big Blog.

M�nica joined the P-I in January as a Hearst Newspapers Fellow, covering the culture of technology in a weekly column and a blog, Net Native.

A product of her wired generation, M�nica obsesses over her Facebook profile and can�t remember what life was like before e-mail. She calls it a good afternoon when she can tinker with her piano and her Ibanez and a good evening when she can get out and enjoy the nightlife. A huge film fan, M�nica will often cry at movies people have no business crying in and has been known to get moody if she doesn't see at least one movie in a theater every week. She can't cook, but she's trying.

M�nica has worked previously at the Houston Chronicle, the Midland Daily News in Michigan and Foster�s Daily Democrat in New Hampshire, covering police and breaking news, higher education and arts and entertainment.

You can watch her on KOMO/4 News at 4:20 p.m. and listen in to KOMO 1000 radio at 4:45 p.m. on Wednesdays, when she rounds up the news that's got Seattle talking.

M�nica holds a bachelor�s degree in sociology from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.