Alobar, You are too Kind. Alobar Nobody Does all the work you Do!

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Alobar!, You are too Kind. ---Too Gentle------- Alobar! Nobody Does all the

work you Do!

 

Alobar How can you expect other people to go to all trouble to keep the list

ineresting?

 

I suggest that you just expect tooooooooooooooooooo muuuuuuuuuuuch of the

readers.

 

Lorenzo

 

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Sun, 2 Feb 2003 12:42:45 -0600

" Alobar " <alobar

Re: Summarize long posts

 

When I re-post long articles obtained from this list into my

on-line journal for friends to read, I do so the following way:

a) I sometimes write my own introduction if it is not immediately

clear why someone should take the time/effort to read the whole thing

to persuade them to do so. I also mention whether the website has

info not in the text of the article I am quoting (hotlinks, etc.)

b) I locate a juicy paragraph or three within the paragraph & copy

that just below my little introduction. In journalism, I believe

this is called a pull-quote.

c) Then I copy the entire article so it is fully in my journal, even

if the referencing website is later moved or taken down.

d) Finally, I put the referencing URL (if I have it) as a footnote

showing where I got the info from.

 

Something like what I do for my journal would be handy &

useful on this list, although I do recognize it takes work & effort.

If someone does not have the time to do something like this, I'd much

rather have the whole article than just a synopsis.

 

Alobar

 

 

 

 

 

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" Lorenzo " <lorenzo1

 

Monday, February 03, 2003 3:35 AM

Alobar, You are too Kind. Alobar Nobody Does

all the work you Do!

 

 

> Alobar!, You are too Kind. ---Too Gentle------- Alobar! Nobody Does

all the

> work you Do!

>

> Alobar How can you expect other people to go to all trouble to keep

the list

> ineresting?

>

> I suggest that you just expect tooooooooooooooooooo muuuuuuuuuuuch

of the

> readers.

>

> Lorenzo

 

Not expecting lots of work from all the readers, Lorenzo.

Just a few minutes per post and only from those who regularly post

long hunks of websites. I assume those who post long essays

actually read thru what they are about to post, so wring a brief

review and locating some good text for a pull-quote should take only

a few minutes, once one gets into the habit of thinking about

possible pull-quotes when reading thru each essay the first time.

 

My suggestions take less than 5 minutes per long article

posted. As an example, here is a page from my LiveJournal

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=alobar & itemid=288386

which shows how I wrote a very brief intro, followed by a pull-quote,

then the entire text of an article which originally came from this

list.

 

Alobar