A new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows more than 40 percent of Americans now have high-speed access at home. More users with high-speed access means more reasons to add multimedia features to your blog.  Blogs like Microsoft's Channel 9 are obviously ahead of the curve on this, but look for others to launch similar efforts. The report notes that there is a significant statistical relationship between users who have high-speed connections and users who create content online.  Overall, 48 million Americans have posted content to the Internet with 11 million saying they maintain a blog or journal online. This group also tends to be younger.

That was the question at the recent 3rd annual Personal Democracy Forum conference earlier this May. I sat on a panel moderated by Jonah Seiger of Connections Media and which featured Mary Katherine Ham of TownHall.com and HughHewitt.com, Matt Stoller of MyDD.com and David All, Communications Director for Rep. Jack Kingston. It was, as you might imagine, a lively discussion. We all had very different perspectives but seemed to agree that blogging is not a casual undertaking for a candidate or organization. MKH has