AOL Debuts "The Stump" for Blog Driven Election Coverage.Interactive Blogging Network See blog network. Engages Bi-Partisan Political Strategists and Voters in Mid-Term Election Debates DULLES, Va. -- AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. expanded its blogging network today by launching The Stump stump (stump) the distal end of a limb left after amputation. stump n. 1. The extremity of a limb left after amputation. 2. (www.aolelectionsblog.com), a series of AOL News elections blogs focusing on key political races and issues of the 2006 mid-term elections. The Stump will feature a collection of experienced political strategists, educational leaders and local radio personalities that will blog about the news and provide their own political perspective on several mid-term elections. With 26 million Americans turning to the Internet for news and information about politics and the upcoming mid-term elections,* AOL[R] News is providing a forum where voters can examine how national issues can impact local politics. The Stump bloggers will have all the 2006 mid-term election angles covered with national bloggers analyzing and reporting on key races, including Senate races and some select local races, and additional contributing bloggers focusing on select state and congressional races. "The Internet is changing the way Americans gather news and information, and The Stump provides an interactive forum for Citizen Journalists and voters to engage and supplement traditional news reporting about national and local candidates in key races," said Lewis D'Vorkin, Editor-in-Chief, AOL News. "This builds on our previous election coverage and expands our participatory journalism platform, letting Americans more actively participate in the election process." AOL News already has an engaged community of citizen journalists, comprised of more than 24 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. each month,** who are helping to shape news stories and coverage by sharing videos, photos and blogs. Citizen Journalists on AOL News participate in interactive forums, such as the Daily Pulse Blog, The Feed and now The Stump. The Daily Pulse Blog lets visitors suggest news stories that shape nightly coverage on AOL News. Users can also become News Editors by simply responding to AOL's question of the day, writing their own headlines, participating in debates and reporting the news by bringing stories to the forefront. As a leading provider of interactive election news, AOL News will offer comprehensive multimedia coverage of the mid-term elections, designed to meet the needs of all voters. AOL News features a range of interactive online platforms - polls, message boards, online debates, chats - that let voters express their political views and combines voter resources with breaking news, analysis from a spectrum of world-class political sources. Voters can find out everything they need to vote in the 2006 elections on AOL News about house, senate and governor races from breaking news to poll hours and polling places to a destination where voters can start engaging in the Road to 2008. AOL.com[R] has other blogs on its network, including BloggingStocks[TM] (http://bloggingstocks.com) which covers stocks and business news, and the FanHouse[TM] (http://aolsportsblog.com), dedicated to professional and college sports coverage. About AOL AOL is a global Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs the country's largest Internet access See how to access the Internet. business, and provides a full set of advertising solutions. A majority-owned subsidiary majority-owned subsidiary A firm in which more than 50% of outstanding voting stock is owned by the parent company. of Time Warner Inc., AOL LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control is based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. . AOL and its subsidiaries also have operations in Europe, Canada and Asia. Learn more at AOL.com. * Pew PEW. A seat in a church separated from all others, with a convenient space to stand therein. 2. It is an incorporeal interest in the real property. And, although a man has the exclusive right to it, yet, it seems, he cannot maintain trespass against a person Internet & American Life (September 2006) ** comScore Media Metrix (September, 2006) |
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