Social Web RVW Reviews on Read/Write Web I've been meaning to add the RVW module for reviews for a wee while now and tonight I did it. RVW is an RSS module created by Alf Eaton. It's basically some extra metadata you add to your RSS feed that describes reviews - of books, music, anything you like really. Reviews is one part of Marc Canter's crusade for open microcontent formats. Alf… Social Richard MacManus View comments
Book Reviews The Coma - Alex Garland First impressions. Short book, more of a novella than a novel. I finished it in one day (a day off work). Alex Garland, if you don't know his work, wrote a famous novel called The Beach in the 90's. The book was much better than the Leonardo Di Caprio movie of the same name. Garland's second novel was called The Tesseract and was set in the… Reviews Richard MacManus View comments
web Topic-focused Blogs: Examples So I've started a topic-focused blog, eBook Culture. Yesterday I outlined my personal goals for the site. Today I'm going to review examples of successful topic-focused blogs, from two people who are leading the way in this type of blog. PVRblog: product-centered content Probably the most well known example of a topic-focused blog is PVRblog… Richard MacManus View comments
Multimedia Mobile Media Lucas Gonze comments on my post from yesterday: "Richard MacManus is throwing himself into eBooks. A synchronicity is that I ran across an excellent bit of non-fiction by Phillip K. Dick which is available freely on the net and couldn't figure out what to do with it. It's not desk reading -- it's too long, and it needs to be read with patience… Play Richard MacManus View comments
web My Goals for eBook Culture One of my stated niches is 'web strategy' and I've written a couple of posts on this subject. However strategy is one of those things that is better practiced rather than preached. I could write a whole bunch of articles on strategy, but the only way for someone to be credible on this topic is to execute a strategy - and preferably be successful at… Richard MacManus View comments