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		<outline created="Tue, 11 May 2010 10:45:11 GMT" text="A 140ish limit">
			<outline created="Tue, 11 May 2010 10:45:14 GMT" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2010/05/11/sneakers.jpg&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;154&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named sneakers.jpg&quot;&gt;I learned something about the 140 character limit in the last few days, as I've experimented with a piece of software that may or may not see the light of day."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 11 May 2010 10:45:59 GMT" text="We all know that a communication environment with a character limit is a unique thing. I haven't sung its praises because it's enough-praised by others. As an experienced writer, I'd rather self-impose limits, I can decide what's enough. There are some useful ideas that can't be expressed in 140 that could be expressed in 180, 250, or 360. The problem with inbetween-sized ideas is that it's not worth the trouble to create a blog post for them, and Twitter doesn't work if you stream together a sequence of tweets. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 11 May 2010 10:47:23 GMT" text="Anyway, here's what I learned. I will self-impose a 140ish limit if I make the text display really big, so that a web page can hold one idea. It's the &quot;ish-ness&quot; that's important. It's a soft limit, up to the writer. For some ideas I need to go over. Not all, not even most. But when it's necessary, it's nice."></outline>
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