New Media The Larry King of Blog Interviews? Nothing like a Slashdotting to bring out the warm fuzzies. Marc and Lucas both have nice things to say about my interviewing style: Marc: "The process is fascinating - an interview where you get to decide what's talked about, an intelligent discourse happens at your pace and you even get to read it before it's published. This the way Interviews… Richard MacManus View comments
Web Development Joel's Best Software Essays of 2004 UPDATE 6/11/04: I decided to nominate The Fractal Blogosphere and Evolution of Corporate Web Sites for the Best Software Essays of 2004 book that Joel Spolsky is editing. If you enjoyed either one of those articles, please leave a comment on Joel's discussion board to support my nominations. Click here to second my Fractal nomination, or here to… Richard MacManus View comments
Interviews Interview with Lucas Gonze of Webjay Welcome to the first in a very special series of Web 2.0 interviews I'm conducting on Read/Write Web. My goal is to interview at least half a dozen people in the Web community who are building or shaping Web 2.0 - i.e. the Web as Platform. My first guest is Lucas Gonze, creator of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) web application Webjay. Lucas was an early… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Us and Them This is about as political as I'll get here on Read/Write Web, but I couldn't resist posting this cartoon by fellow kiwi Tom Scott. It also reminds me of the Getting paid for blogging controversy that is polarizing bloggers right now. For the record, I think it's a worthy experiment by Marc Canter... why does everything have to be so binary? Richard MacManus View comments
web Web 2.0 book idea update / Moneyball review This post doubles as an update of my writing goals and a short review of Michael Lewis' book Moneyball. First, my goals. Lately on Read/Write Web, I've been exploring options for my future. eBooks and Knowledge Management storywriting are a couple of things I've been researching. And one thing I passionately wrote about on this blog was the… Richard MacManus View comments