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Blogosphere Trends + Handling High Word Counts

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This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). Once you’ve done that, replace passive constructions with active ones wherever possible (“a pirate rode the unicorn” rather than “the unicorn was ridden by a pirate”) and get rid of wordy phrases (e.g., “can”

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Blogosphere Trends + Digging Deeper

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This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). Each week, we look at the ten most blogged-about stories of the last seven days, as provided by Regator (which is turning two years old on Saturday!). Can anyone stop construction of the mosque near Ground Zero?