web The New Puritan Manifesto As I was browsing my local bookstore, ostensibly looking for a Christmas present for my Grandma, I came across a book called all hail the new puritans. It was a collection of short stories from young British writers circa 2000. So it was a few years old and probably collecting dust on the shelf. But the book intrigued me. It seemed to be… Richard MacManus View comments
Info Architecture Update on Weblog Ontologies Couple of bits of feedback from last night's post on weblog ontologies. Bill Seitz points out that his Wikilog does in fact have a hierarchical view, the user has to enable it though (via their user settings when they visit Bill's site). For example the post of his I used as an example yesterday has this hierarchy: Front Page > Personal Network… Richard MacManus View comments
Info Architecture Weblog Ontologies, Part 1 I've been jotting down re-design ideas in my trusty paper notebook. On the Web there is an unwritten maxim: learn (steal?) from the best. So I decided to review some of the weblog ontologies/taxonomies on the Web that I admire. My method of review is informal and non-judgmental. I try to illustrate my findings with a test drive of each site. In… Richard MacManus View comments
web Aesthetic Morality in the 21st Century Morality in art has always been a fascination of mine. And by art I mean literature, music, movies - the works. Some weblogs even. A favourite artist of mine is the great Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. One of Gould's theories was that music should be judged on moral considerations rather than aesthetic ones. In an interview with himself, he told the… Richard MacManus View comments
web Motivations: comparisons between novel-writing and blogging I had written a long post describing my motivations for writing my novel, but on reflection I won't publish it because it belongs more to my personal journal than on a public website. That is to say, it's probably only relevant to me. But to sum up in a sentence: my main reasons for writing a novel were 1) to prove myself as a writer; and 2… Richard MacManus View comments