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a-okTopic: Blogging News
A shout-out to all Lycos Tripod and Angelfire bloggers, and especially those who have downloaded and use the Lycos Qumana blog editing tool and the more recently-released Lycos Q-Ads blog advertising insertion tool.
The Qumana Corner has been on hiatus for a couple of months, as life's transitions wielded their impact on our abilities to keep you going and growing in your blogging activities. The previous bloggers Tris and Arieanna have moved on to other pastures, and at the Qumana HQ we have been busy improving Qumana's capabilities.
We have been developing the Lycos Q-Ads tool further towards becoming a means of mixing together a range of social media content (video clips, mps3's, and other content widgets .. effectively, anything wrapped in <embed> HTML tags), so that the blogger can embed the content into her or his blog posts . Watch for some news about this over the next month or so.
My name is Jon Husband. I am a co-founder of Qumana, have been blogging for at least 4 years if not longer (probably closer to 5) and also act as a social media analyst and strategist and a consultant to organizations who are wondering about how the new digital hyperlinked (and rapidly becoming ubiquitous) environment is affecting them ... usually the problems require some form of what is called change management.
Anyway, enough about me.
I am planning to post at least three times a week here, and the focus of the posting will be how to post more easily, how to blog more effectively (up to the intermediate level, basically .. people at or beyond that level of skill know how to find out what they want to know next, in my experience).
I will also do my very best to be as open, reszponsive, helpful and respectful as I can be to any and all who have quuestions or suggestion.
Finally, I intend to become as familiar as possible with Lycos' great content and offer examples of how the content offered by Lycos can be woven into blog posts as easily and as usefully as possible.
Blogging is for many people a great way to learn and grow, make new friends and professional or business connections or just express themselves about their issues, concerns or favourite activities.
I trust that I will be able to help those of you who are curious, enthusiastic or ambitious .. and if I can't help you i will try to find someone who can and put you in touch with them.;
Posted by wirearchy
at 9:08 PM PST
Despite some computer company 
So ... what does this mean for Qumana? A lot. This is huge for us. Lycos is one of those icons of the Internet. Lots of history, lots going on. We're excited to be working with them. In many ways this is an affirmation of Qumana's mission: make blogging easier and better. Beyond all the hype, beyond all the thoughts of blog bubbles and getting into debates about "what is web 2.0", this sea change we've seen over the last two years is about writing and publishing. It's about people having their say. It's about people helping to shape, expand, illustrate, and elaborate on the news of the day. And now the legions of Tripod and Anglefire, and ... oh did I mention ... Wired bloggers can create, describe, and publish easier today than they could yesterday.