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December 2003 Archives

Tuesday, 30th December 2003

XSLT, 2004 goals, and general blather

Man it gets quiet in the blogosphere over xmas. I've had to resort to some real work to keep myself occupied. I've been diving into XSLT to try and develop something interesting for my weblog's topic-based navigation. XSLT can be infuriating at times. I got most of what I wanted from my XSLT session today, except for one tiny thing that I spent a…

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Thursday, 25th December 2003

I am Game Neverending

Summary: I analyse Game Neverending, a multi-player social software web application, and compare it to a virtual world that I created in my recent novel. One of those silly but addictive questionaires is doing the rounds: What kind of Social Software am I? You could be a Wiki, the Blogosphere, FOAF, or other…

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Monday, 22nd December 2003

Linkblog added to sidebar

I'm doing some incremental changes to the site. First up, I added my linkblog to the sidebar. I use my linkblog to save links, ideas and memes that interest me. Hence its name: Web of Ideas. It's a Movable Type site and the search functionality in particular makes it very worthwhile. Often when I'm thinking about a topic, I'll search my linkblog…

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Thursday, 18th December 2003

First read-through of my Nanowrimo novel

I've just finished reading my Nanowrimo novel as a whole piece for the first time. I'm pretty pleased with the story, apart from one thing right at the end (which I'll address at the end of this post). The whole point of Nanowrimo for me, as a first-time novelist, was to gain confidence in my writing and discover if I could write a novel. A big…

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Wednesday, 17th December 2003

Info Architecture

Do we really need Web Design and Taxonomy?

Two recent memes from the blogosphere seem to me to be ripe for mixing: Meme 1) The current trend for tech blog re-designs to have a minimalist, lotsa-white-space look that places emphasis on the content. Dave Winer probably started this trend with his re-design, but I've seen it elsewhere before him (e.g. Peter Lindberg and Erik Benson). And now…

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