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Check it out: WaPo Guidance on Blogging

Posted by Erik Wemple on Nov. 15, 2007, at 10:27 am

With more than 50 blogs on its Web site, washingtonpost.com and their counterparts at the Washington Post have learned quite a bit about blogging. And lucky us, they've decided to package their collective wisdom in a single memo on this ever-evolving news art.

Here it is.

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1. IMGoph November 15th, 2007
   10:34 am
   #1

   so does this mean that it's time to really axe the dcwire blog?

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