This is another cool tech tip sent in from M. J. (who by the way, also works at Mount Holyoke College). Zemanta is a brand new application that acts as a research assistant for bloggers. Unfortunately, it does not work with LifeType (yet), but it does work with WordPress, Blogger and Tyepad. What it does is suggest related photos, articles, links and tags (keywords) based on what you are writing in your blog. Plus, inserting items is easier than copying and pasting, just click to select an item from the list and Zemanta inserts it into your blog. This is pretty clever and helpful. It will make blogging more fun when additional information comes to me, much like when my readers send me ideas for articles.
Zemanta indexes around 300 top media sources and numerous blogs of our users. Therefore the more people that use the more resources it will have to pull from and a real benefit is that links to recent blog posts frequently result in return traffic.