TSS -- Salon Membership and Gone Tomorrow

Looks like the Sunday Salon is operational again! This is good news. I'll restate here my proposal that we halt membership in the Salon at 500 members. (We're currently at 482.) Not that I want to. But I think we might be taxing Yahoo Pipes beyond all reason if we let the Salon grow indefinitely. Happy to hear arguments either way.

Meanwhile, here's a good book that I think a lot of you might enjoy:

Overlook © 2008, 368 pages

Note: Review copy received from publisher. Amazon affiliate: Links pointing to Amazon contain my affiliate ID. Sales resulting from clicks on those links will earn me a percentage of the purchase price.

The bulk of P.F. Kluge's Gone Tomorrow purports to be a manuscript that was found among the belongings of the late George Canaris, whose three previous books had landed him in the canon of must-read 20th century authors. Canaris became a writer in residence at a no-name Ohio college at the height of his fame, eager for a place that would give him the space to write his magnum opus, "The Beast," as he referred to it. But against all expectations Canaris stayed on at the school for more than thirty years and never published another book. His failure to come out with anything new lent him a Salinger-esque mystique, but his status slowly slipped from celebrity author on campus to beloved but has-been professor.

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Comments

[beastmomma]

1.

Hello Deb,

First, I want to say thank you for all the amazing work you do to keep the Sunday Salon organized. I really love the group and know that it would not be possible without you.
Second, regarding the membership. I am not sure if this fair or not, but I wondered if there was a way to cap the captured posts to 500. Not every posts every week and this way we do not have to limit the number of people who join.

[Debra Hamel]

2.

Thanks, Beastmomma! It might be possible to cap the output, but I'm not sure that I'd want to. At any rate, on the usual week (i.e., when the old posts aren't being spit out) there shouldn't be anything like 500. More like, what, 75 or 80? 100?

[Debra Hamel]

3.

Oh, I meant to say: I don't know how the Pipes work on the inside, but I suspect that having to look at the RSS feed, even if there's nothing relevant in it, is what takes the work, so that the total number of RSS feeds is what matters more than how big the output is.