Comments on: Rearview mirror, or, back on (this) board http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/1101?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rearview-mirror-or-back-on-this-board Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:10:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dave http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/1101/comment-page-1#comment-11304 Dave Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:47:08 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=1101#comment-11304 100 words is pretty confining for me, so perhaps I cheated with a post full of admittedly self-referential links. Still, as poet <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2004/06/006913.php" rel="nofollow">Robert Francis</a> said of a sestina, "If you drape thirty-nine iron chains around your arms and shoulders and then do a dance, the whole point of the dance will be to seem light and effortless." I drift away from some long posts, too, which is sad considering the average length of mine. But then, sometimes when I'm talking with someone, I interrupt myself. 100 words is pretty confining for me, so perhaps I cheated with a post full of admittedly self-referential links. Still, as poet Robert Francis said of a sestina, “If you drape thirty-nine iron chains around your arms and shoulders and then do a dance, the whole point of the dance will be to seem light and effortless.”

I drift away from some long posts, too, which is sad considering the average length of mine. But then, sometimes when I’m talking with someone, I interrupt myself.

]]> By: Janet Clarey http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/1101/comment-page-1#comment-11303 Janet Clarey Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:19:33 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=1101#comment-11303 Nicely done. The 100 word post was prompted a couple of things: my drafts of columns that have to be exactly 750 words; the 140 character limit on Twitter, and my professor in a dissertation class saying (basically)'anybody can summarize research in 200 pages. Skill is interpreting it in 25-50. There's a lot to be said of brief, succinct messages. I find myself drifting away from long posts for some reason and suspect others may feel the same way. I enjoyed re-reading your "How I got this way" post. Nicely done.

The 100 word post was prompted a couple of things: my drafts of columns that have to be exactly 750 words; the 140 character limit on Twitter, and my professor in a dissertation class saying (basically)’anybody can summarize research in 200 pages. Skill is interpreting it in 25-50. There’s a lot to be said of brief, succinct messages. I find myself drifting away from long posts for some reason and suspect others may feel the same way.
I enjoyed re-reading your “How I got this way” post.

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