Hi, <br><br>I wanted to respond to the issue of all blogs looking the same. I had this battle and won (I'm in your camp btw). The whole point of the blog site was for faculty who didn't like the monochrome of Blackboard. We came up with somewhat of a compromise for people who were using the blogs as part of an official college website, they needed to use a template that we created. <br>
<br>My argument was that a "looks-all-the-same" approach would scare away anyone who had any desire to use it.<br><br>Laura<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Styles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lambic.co.uk">wp-edu@lambic.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all,<br>
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I'm just wondering what other institutions are using for their blog<br>
comment spam protection; Are you paying for Akismet? Paying for<br>
something else? Or using one or more of the free plugins?<br>
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Also, there's a debate raging here over whether all blogs should use the<br>
same basic theme or all the blogs can look different (I'm in the looking<br>
different camp, blogs should have individual personality IMO). Any<br>
similar debates happened elsewhere? What was the outcome?<br>
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