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 Sunday, August 14, 2005
started 8/14/2005; 8:55:06 AM - last post 8/15/2005; 7:21:57 AM
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Doc Searls - Sunday, August 14, 2005 
8/14/2005; 12:55:06 PM (reads: 4091, responses: 4)
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Lunasee 
| | Went out on West Camino Cielo last night with the museum's astronomy club, and had a great time looking up at the Milky Way, digging the stars in a clear sky above the fogged-in valleys below, and waiting for the moon to set so we could watch the Perseid meteor shower in earnest. |
| | I shot the above trough the eyepiece of one guy's excellent Dobsonian telescope. Amazed it came out. |
Good Buddy
| | Sheila Lennon reviews Buddy, a movie about Providence's notorious former mayor, Vincent A. Clanci Jr., who missed the gala premiere because, as the movie says, he's in prison. Sheila: |
| | The power of primary sources drives this film. Told chronologically, largely through old footage and news clippings, Buddy's story proceeds through the years. To Arnold's credit, she included grainy, out-of-focus footage when its news value trumped its lack of quality. Sometimes, as in the arrival of Mayor and Mrs. Cianci to an inaugural gala, the blurry footage aptly turns it into a dream sequence. |
| | The narration by actor James Woods, a Warwick native, is wonderfully unobtrusive. |
| | Kinda doubt it'll show in Santa Barbara, but I'll be watching for it. |
Poddery class
| | While that one was fun, there's more nutritive value for your brain in another podcast that Richard Querin calls one of the most entertaining podcasts I've come across in some time, and like Ralph Kramden having an argument with Bob Newhart. |
Money where due
| | I want "The Devil's Infosec Dictionary" to be funnier. And I wish the entry that mentions me -- "Cryptography: The science of applying a complex set of mathematical algorithms to sensitive data with the aim of making Bruce Schneier exceedingly rich" -- were more true. |
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Andrew Leyden - Backwards?
8/14/2005; 4:47:04 PM (reads: 555, responses: 1)
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Is that an inverted image of the moon? Did the telescope flip things around? I was looking at the moon last night and thought it was the other way around.
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Doc Searls - Re: Backwards?
8/15/2005; 7:34:48 AM (reads: 599, responses: 0)
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Sharp eyes!
I should have mentioned that the image was inverted, as it usually is with telescopes of this sort. And I suppose I should have used software to re-invert it back to its actual appearance.
But now I have too many other things going on so, alas...
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Mike Warot - Editing times?
8/15/2005; 8:04:20 AM (reads: 1383, responses: 1)
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Doc,
How much time do you spend writing a post, verse editing it down, etc? I had a simple point I wanted to make, but then it's become this huge post, way too long, but about important stuff.... so I'm going to keep at it. I expect 3-4 hours more writing and editing before it's really short enough.
Is this normal?
Any advice appreciated.
--Mike--
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Doc Searls - Re: Editing times?
8/15/2005; 11:21:57 AM (reads: 842, responses: 0)
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What's normal?
Write what works for you. Experiment around. If a subject requires an essay, write an essay. If it's just pointage to somebody else's short post or long essay, make a short pointy post.
Most posts for me take about as long as an email. In fact, I try to think of posts as a cc:world. If there are a lot of links, that makes them take longer. Also, I often edit once a post goes up. This annoys some people, but I'd rather be right than sorry. And I make a lot of typos, grammatical and linking errors, so post-posted corrections are common for me.
Yet, I write long emails sometimes.
Your issue is time, not length. Same with most of us who aren't paid to blog.
As for long, there's nothing wrong with it. Check out Britt Blaser. Or Jeff Jarvis. Or Jay Rosen.
I've often found that my longest posts get the most reading and inbound linkage.
I like your post, by the way, and will point to it from over at IT Garage, where your subject is exactly the kind of issue we like to talk about.
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