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Most importantly, this is entry No. 301 at Earth Wide Moth.  Fifteen
\nmonths, six days.  Three or four memorable entries and three or four
\nforgettable ones.  The rest, writing.<\/p>\n

On the subject of writing, I’m 3700 words committed to the 611 project, a
\ndraft of which is due to be shared on Thursday–opened to full-on blazing scrutiny.  Words: not to be confused
\nwith images.  But I have about five pages worth of visualizations to
\nsprinkle in here and there. Should I be worried that I haven’t yet said much
\nabout the specific<\/i> method? Nah.  I’m going for the recipe-card
\nparagraph close to the end; a list of steps, each of which must not exceed
\nfive words.  Plus, who wants to read a bunch of formulae: "To arrive at the
\nstandard deviation, take the square root of the number of…."  Yuck-oh. 
\nI’d rather capture a .mov of me futzing around with a calculator and a
\nspreadsheet and Flash until it was just right.<\/p>\n

Too-much too-fast writing puts me in the spirit of photo-taking.  This afternoon,
\nwhen it occurred to me that I might blog something or other today, I went and
\ngot the camera, looked out the window for a long time.  Nothing stirring
\n(except the neighbor kid who spent two minutes waving a plastic saber at gnat-swarms, but his folks wouldn’t
\nappreciate me digitalizing him into blog-famy).  So I put the whole thing off. 
\nLater (by which I mean ‘just now’) I zoned through an online content management meeting (the unveiling of a centralized content repository) for little more than an hour, because I’m picking up some online work with my old u. for the summer months. 
\nFrom the meeting (which included a conference call): "Metadata? It’s like a
\nwrapper<\/i> that surrounds content items."  Or rapper.  Or rapport. \n<\/p>\n

#301#<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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