mycalicocat

i guess because i'm a lawyer, i read the whole thing no matter the length.
 

It's a very good question. I'm going to say a maximum of 250 words, which is about half the length of a normal newspaper op-ed piece, but maybe a average of 150-200 You can type it on word, do a word count, and then cut and paste it. I don't think people expect or want to hunker down for a long read on a computer screen. I am now going to stop and write another comment.
 

When the automobile was first invented, everyone thought of it as a "horseless carriage", so the early cars were styled like carriages, and it was quite a while before the basic carriage style gave way to the enclosed automobile. I think we're in the same stage with blogs It's an entirely different medium, so you have to wing it a bit.
 

One thing that's very different in this medium is that you can have hyperlinks. For sharing information, that's glorious. You can writer for a sense of your average reader, while letting some who don't have the background go to one set of links and others who want details go to others. I'm hoping that makes 150-200 words capable of packing a wallop.
 

I like that kind of format myself, because it's my preference for learning about new things -- get a quick overview.
Is this going to be interractive?
 

I'm having fun trying to think that through. I spend many hours by phone and e-mail working through member challenges for them, and I think a stack of those people would love a blog and use it. But it would have to be informative every day to get regular use, andI'm trying to figure out how to pull that off. My question about length comes from imagining recruiting some other contributors. I'm also trying to figure out how someone could moderate the discussion without being on call 24 hours a day--and how the someone could be someone else than me. Council members, especially parents, are SO isolated I'm sure we could provide some value...
 

William Shakespear: They have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps.
 

Back to the horseless carriage. The idea, it seems to me, isn’t to set up another venue for doing what you’re already doing in the established venues.(Newsletter, e-mail, workshops, snailmail etc.) It’s to open up a free-wheeling discussion, from which everybody learns including the Blogmaster. Granted you’d get some June Guettels now and then, but you’d also get some marvelous anecdotes and some good observations. The blognames would be a help. What I’m seeing in a lot of blogs is that the commenters all write two sentences, probably hoping to be heard and acknowledged, but they aren’t heard and acknowledged. They’re more like somebody trying to get past Chloe from Bangalore.
 

Hello to Freyja! Neat quotation.
 

i had forgotten poor chloe.:)her attention span would allow only a very tiny blog length i'm sure.