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Vol. 4, No. 18

May 1, 1998

Welcome to the Tripod Insider. Read about Tripodians and karaoke after checking out what's new on the site.

Content And Services

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NEW ZONES ON TRIPOD

We're pleased to announce our brand new Shopping Zone. Shop to your heart's content, get decked out in Tripod gear, and learn credit card smarts from our financial experts. Embrace the consumer within!

Due to popular demand, the Work/Money Zone has split into Jobs/Career and Money/Business Zones. Check them out!

POD COMMUNITY NEWS

We have more than 60 online special interest communities that we call pods. New pods this week are Aviation, Girl Power, and Mom's Pods. See the full list, then join as many as you want!

Share job advice and gain some contacts in the Career Corner Pod.

Hiking, fishing, camping -- get in the Great Outdoors Pod and then get outside.

Come share your chapbook in the Poetic Pod.

Find physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional healing in the Women's Health Pod.

THIS WEEK'S SPONSORS

Internships can be a real adventure -- we'd like to know about yours. Tell us and enter the Win A Scholarship contest for a $1,500 scholarship sponsored by VISA.

Online auctions are the latest big thing, and eBay.com is the reason why.

Enter the Rolling Stone Network Music Mania contest for a chance to win a CDnow account that entitles you to one free CD per day for a year, a $4,200 value! Or tell us what you think of the year in music in the Rolling Stone Network Music Conference.

NEW FEATURES

We have many new features and articles this week on Tripod. Check out the zones to find more: Jobs/Career, Money/Business, Shopping, Fun & Games, Women, Homelife, Health/Sports, Media, Web/Tech, and Issues.

Legendary daredevil Evel Knievel has signed on to write an advice column for our members! Who better to ask about risk-taking than Evel, the man who once attempted to jump Snake River Canyon in a rocket- powered Sky Cycle? This is real, so submit your question TODAY!

Build your own baby homepage on Tripod, no programming needed!

Self-loathing. Self-love. What's the difference? Bunny Fisher fears it's three little letters: F-A-T.

Music critic David Kushner writes on the rise of Electronica.

Meet Derek Powazek, creator of the brilliant online zine The Fray.

LETTER FROM TRIPOD

Every Friday a Tripod staffer shares some thoughts with our readers. This week we have a few words from Toymaker Christopher Ivan Young.

DISCOVERING LYCOS

How does your garden grow? If you're looking for anything related to gardening, check out the Lycos Home/Garden Web Guide!

Tripod Insider

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We don't get out much in Williamstown. When a bunch of Tripod staffers found themselves in Boston recently, Margaret's suggestion that we head to a Boston landmark, The Purple Shamrock, was met with enthusiasm. Imagine our surprise when we discovered it was karaoke night. It came as no surprise, however, that Kara and Margaret both knew all the words to Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive."

Not to be outdone, Paul, Don, Bruce, and I took the stage in the hopes of performing The Village People's "YMCA." Unfortunately, the Shamrock didn't have that disco classic, and we found ourselves performing Madonna's "Like a Virgin." We knew Bo wouldn't disappoint us. He and Joann performed UB40's "Red, Red Wine." Bo may in fact be congenitally reggae-impaired, but he did an admirable job with the rap stretches. The bar seemed to think we'd all put in a good effort. We got a standing ovation. . . when we left the bar for the night.

Next week, we introduce another set of new faces at Tripod -- would they have joined us if they'd known about our karaoke problems?

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to e-mail Ethan Zuckerman, Vice President, Research & Development. His mailbox is always open.

Ethan Zuckerman
VP, Research & Development
[email protected]

This has been another issue of the Tripod Insider, the weekly newsletter on what's happening at Tripod. Past issues of the Tripod Insider are also available.

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