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   Joseph Nebus to All   
   Survey: making for better summaries   
   08 May 07 14:01:07   
   
   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   	I know that the episode summaries I write are pretty well   
   appreciated and relied upon, and I'm happy to do them as long as they   
   are wanted.  (That's not to suggest I wouldn't mind passing off some   
   days of the week or weeks of the month to volunteers, mind you; it is   
   really nice on rerun weeks to just sit and watch the show for a change.)   
      
   	But what I really want is for them to serve as a basis for more   
   and more varied conversation around here, and they don't on average get   
   much of that.  I realize that's partly because after I've written down   
   three-quarters of the lines of the show there isn't much else to say,   
   except when I get something important wrong, but then the question will   
   remain: how can I change the summary-writing to inspire more conversation?   
      
   	It's occured to me that having daily blocks of 170-line posts are   
   more than a bit intimidating and it might help to post, say, separate   
   pieces for the Conologue, Comedy Bits, and Guests, so that each of the   
   segmens is easier to read and requires less trimming to respond to just   
   a segment of.  Would that be a useful modification on how I do things?   
      
   	If not, what would be?   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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