On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 07:13:07PM +0100, Bob W wrote: > On 8 Oct 2013, at 19:04, Walt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > FWIW, I read through the entire thing without a problem. Though, > > admittedly, I am a pretty wordy writer. > > > > Still, it just doesn't strike me as all that out-of-place to muse at some > > length on-topic in the context of a discussion list, or even on Facebook > > for that matter, since they truncate comments and provide a link to the > > full content for anyone who cares to read the whole thing. > > > > I think the tendency among many readers toward a "tl;dr" or "OMG, it's full > > of words!" reaction to internet commentary that goes on for more than 250 > > words is lamentable in a lot of ways. And if we can't go on and on about > > things we have a passion for, it seems to me we're robbing ourselves of > > some of the joy in having passions at all. > > Everybody's entitled to go on and on about anything they want. > > But if you want people to read it, make it easy for them. There are many > tried and tested ways of doing that. Unless you're Joyce or Kerouac (and even > then...) a colossal brain dump is rarely one of them.
There is a lot of truth in what you say. However, when I'm juggling a crazy work schedule as we near the first release of the product, a contractor doing major repairs on my property, and the events surrounding the release of the book my sensei has been working on for ten years: http://journeytoaikido.com/ as well as sorting, processing and printing photos before her sensei leaves for Japan Thursday morning, many more people read it than would have read it if I had tried to get it perfect. At some point, I think I may want to revisit the subject, and look at all sides of the situation. What you need to do as the photographer, as well as the venue owner, Actually, the whole concept of invisible effort is worth thinking about in every context, whether it's putting on Thanksgiving dinner, taking photos of the school play, running a mailing list, or editing the PDML annual. There are a lot of tasks that you just don't realize how much work is involved until you have done them yourself. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
