BUZZ
Everyone is blogging through life these days - politicians on the campaign trail, fashion critics, dieters, actors, celebrity-watchers, and journalists. In the 2004 presidential elections, we saw blogs take on an instrumental role as candidates and journalists began to use them as more mainstream tools for public communication. In particular, we were offered an inside look at the conventions from a variety of bloggers giving updates from the frontlines, including one of our Tripod staffers. The 2006 mid-term elections saw an even bigger explosion of political blogging, and there's certainly more to come in the '08 presidential campaign. Blogs are certainly a more personal – and casual – means of expression than newspapers and television. Some argue that the off-the-cuff and unbiased nature of blogs invalidate them as a news source; others believe that it is this lack of filtering and free-flow of ideas that give blogs their efficacy. We are providing our Tripod and Angelfire users an even easier way of updating their blogs right from their desktops with Lycos Qumana. With Qumana, you can post to multiple blogs at once. Other features include easy image insertion, simple Technorati tagging, and advertising insertion. Not only does Qumana make updating your blog quicker and easier, but it makes earning money through blogging easier, as well. Check out the Qumana blog for information and updates.
Offline blogging can open up a world of possibilities – blog from an airplane or from a cell phone. Your blog will be more immediate than ever before, which is crucial in this ever-changing climate. And perhaps in 2008, it is your blog that we will be reading for up-to-the-minute news from the campaign trail.
