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Thursday, 30th October 2003

Richard's 30-day Feat of Endurance

I've now officially entered NaNoWriMo, which is an annual challenge to write a 50,000 word novel over 30 days. It kicks off on 1 November, which is one day away for me. I checked into the official NaNoWriMo website tonight and I was surprised to see that 14 other people from Wellington in New Zealand are doing this. I suspect the majority are…

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Tuesday, 28th October 2003

Writing a novel in 30 days

I'm one of those people that regularly says: "One day, I'm going to write a novel." Well now may be my chance. NaNoWriMo is a an annual challenge to write a novel in 30 days, over the month of November. The novel must be at least 50,000 words, which is about 175 pages. I discovered this intriguing contest tonight, via Erik Benson. Erik entered last…

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Monday, 27th October 2003

Will of its own

I posted this on my linkblog, but I feel like publishing it here too. I heard some of Rautavaara's Symphony Number 7 (Angel of Light) a few weeks ago, for the first time, and I was quite taken by the music. It reminded me of The Matrix. So anyway tonight I googled Rautavaara and discovered a) he's a Finnish composer, and b) I like the way he…

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Sunday, 26th October 2003

Culture of Celebrity and Weblogs

I judge the quality of a weblog by its IDEAS, but it seems some people equate quality with popularity. Is the 'culture of celebrity' that afflicts Western movies, television and radio creeping in to weblogs as well? These thoughts were prompted by the recent weblog discussion on power laws and how they relate to weblogs. Actually the topic of…

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Thursday, 23rd October 2003

On Broadcasting

The Two-Way Web is a very simple concept. It's all about normal everyday people having a publishing platform on the Web. Sounds reasonable to me, but a thread on Many-to-Many this week has complicated the issue. Here's my summary, based on how I first discovered and then tracked the thread (the process somehow seems important here): 1. In my…

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