I heard that 'blog' was being considered for inclusion in the OED. Can anyone comment on the veracity of this?

Growing up, I always viewed the OED as a stodgy old dictionary that was rather resistant to change. It's amusing to see them on the vocabularic front lines of the language.

The OED periodically publishes a list of 'Appeals', asking readers to antedate or postdate words beyond a certain date. The content of most recent Appeal is available at http://www.oed.com/public/readers/appeal.htm . Interestingly, the OED seems to be using Google News to date words now, e.g.


moon-box (theatre - device to produce representation of the moon):
any evidence
(now postdated to 1928 (and 1997 on Google Usenet archive only)