Comments on: #Operaplot Entries – Round 2

By: Miss Mussel

Miss Mussel — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:32:47 +0000

Ah, the misspelling would explain why all the links are broken. Sorry about that!

I’m afraid it is too late to alter the Lohengrin/Bluebeard one, the entries have been sent off already.

I’ll find a better system for next time, so there are less mistakes.

Thanks for participating. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

By: Ava

Ava — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:29:07 +0000

it’s probably too late for this now, but mine under Bluebeard’s Castle:
@txavacado – The ultimate bridezilla asks the one question she shouldnâ€™t, resulting in a wedding night thatâ€™s strictly for the birds.

is actually for Lohengrin. The whole bird thing…

and all 4 of my entries (cosi, die zauberflote, l’elisir, and above) have my handle misspelled — should be @txavocado. it’s no biggie, since I keep my updates private anyway. Thanks for doing this; it was fun!

By: Miss Mussel

Miss Mussel — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:19:30 +0000

There is in fact: I am rather absentminded and while giving you a link to your site, forgot to change the pattern from the one that works for Twitter links.

By: Miss Mussel

Miss Mussel — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:17:23 +0000

You’re welcome! It turned out be to a far larger task than I originally thought but I think it’s done now. Worth it to have everything in one place.

By: Miss Mussel

Miss Mussel — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:16:17 +0000

That’s an idea for sure. There has to be a way to automate the harvesting of tweets directly from the twitter feed into Excel or even Google Docs, I just didn’t it before the contest started.

I’ll definitely look into sorting something better out for next time. There were too many missing tweets and this method of correction was a nightmare for everyone.

By: Miss Mussel

Miss Mussel — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:33:08 +0000

Hello Everyone,

Bad news…..I’m afraid I did actually break Wordpress for this post. It’s over 10,000 words and has exceeded the PHP memory available on my shared hosting account.

In order to further edit this post or indeed even to split it into two smaller ones, I would have to upgrade to my own server, which is more than I can afford as well as unnecessary for every other post except this one.

So, long story short: everything will have to stay as is I’m afraid.

Apologies to those whose entries are still not correct. We’ll come up with a better system for next time.

Update 7th May: Deleting a few non-essential plugins has cleared up the required memory, so I can make these edits. Yay!

By: frindley

frindley — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:55:53 +0000

Tiny title amendment: it’s “Prima la musica e poi le parole” (or just Prima la musicaâ€¦) rather than “La Prima Musica”

Impressive work wrangling all these entries into order!

By: thomas_rhodes

thomas_rhodes — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:55:21 +0000

Thank you so much for your hard work on these edits!

By: AliciaCarina

AliciaCarina — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:23:39 +0000

THE EGYPTIAN HELEN – early version, deleted from my Twitter but not Twitter stream, so should go. Thanks Miss Mussel!

@AliciaCarina – Marriage vs. â€œrealityâ€ & 1 great aria. #operaplot: bivalve reassures witch re: seagod, helps stop murder of beauty by beast. All reconcile.

By: dumbledad

dumbledad — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:08:44 +0000

Hey, one thought for next time. If you did this phase as a spreadsheet on Google Docs or a similar social documnent share (like a wiki or somesuch) then you could just set up the column headings (e.g. tweet_author, opera_composer, opera_title, tweet_url) and then everyone could fill in their own #operaplot tweets, and fill in other peoples, and correct any mistakes in categorisation themselves.