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Saturday, August 13
 
the appearance of a website apparently is what will give people greater satisfaction, according to a study by some brits.

An important thing to note if you are looking for a specific audience for your blog and/or website. If you don't care however, feel free to use large fonts, different coloured typesetting, and random capital letters. That'll make your blog stand out from the crowd.

 
Under Blogwood

Keeping in mind that group blogging is not about technology but about organizing and motivating people, here's how the University of Glamorgan helps its writers get attention -

University of Glamorgan, Writers' Blog: "Writers%u2019 Blog is a group weblog exploring modern literature. It is published at the National Centre for Writing by some of Wales%u2019 foremost authors and poets."

Friday, August 12
 
Wiki makes the Oxford English Dictionary

This is new. According to The Seattle Times: : "The new edition [of the OED] also includes 'wiki,' a Web site or database developed by a community of users."

Usually, English is seen as teaching what's been in the OED for a couple of centuries. This time, we beat them to it! Yay us.