His notes are rarely more than a sentence long.
But someone has to do all that writing, even if each entry is barely a sentence long.
While some stories follow a nominal plot — two academics strolling through Oxford is as wild as it gets — others are not even a sentence long.
Some, including the MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow, mocked the idea of a government spokesman addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in tweets barely a sentence long.
What made Mr. Schröder's case unusual is that the original story's only offense was a quotation less than one sentence long.
An analyst found about half of the e-mails to be one sentence long, and those that run on aren't always more substantive.
The subject line read: "Ban computers in the classroom?" The note that followed was one sentence long: "I finally saw the light today and propose we ban the use of laptops in class".
For an insomniac, nights are an eight-to-10-hour prison sentence, long stretches of pillow flipping and staring at the ceiling, of racing thoughts and eventual frustrated pacing.
The instructions, though only one sentence long, were epic in scope: "Please rate in the context of the full range of sensations that you have experienced in your life".
He told me that his first post, just a sentence long, read: "Oh my fatherland of Vietnam, I want to say something to you!" While working on my book about Internet dissent in the Communist and post-Communist world, I interviewed bloggers in China, Cuba, and Russia who, like Quan, wanted to tell stories that did not appear in the state-controlled media.
They were a collection of global superstars bankrolled by a worldwide entertainment conglomerate, Warner Communications, long before the words soccer and synergy were uttered in the same sentence, long before the Real Madrids and Manchester Uniteds of the world were global "brands".
