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October 2003 Archives

Richard's 30-day Feat of Endurance
Written by Richard MacManus / October 30, 2003 11:58 PM
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


Writing a novel in 30 days
Written by Richard MacManus / October 28, 2003 10:44 PM / 2 Comments
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


Will of its own
Written by Richard MacManus / October 27, 2003 11:51 PM
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


Culture of Celebrity and Weblogs
Written by Richard MacManus / October 26, 2003 11:39 PM / 3 Comments
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


On Broadcasting
Written by Richard MacManus / October 23, 2003 9:48 PM / 4 Comments
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


Select Mode: Publisher
Written by Richard MacManus / October 21, 2003 9:08 PM
David Weinberger recently wrote a weblog post entitled When blogs get really popular. In it he states that the line between blogging and email will become blurred. He says: "The


Massaging the Medium
Written by Richard MacManus / October 20, 2003 10:57 PM / 2 Comments
Thanks to Peter Lindberg, for pointing me and others to a couple of Marshall McLuhan articles. But before I talk about those, here's an overview of Marshall McLuhan from the


The road to XHTML and tableless CSS designs
Written by Richard MacManus / October 16, 2003 9:46 PM / 3 Comments
I've been threatening to write an article about XHTML for a while now and so here goes. I'll also talk about CSS and table-less web designs, because in the Web


Is this the beginning of the Age of Topic-focused Blogs?
Written by Richard MacManus / October 15, 2003 9:42 PM / 14 Comments
I read with interest Matt Haughey's essay Blogging for Dollars, where he relates his experiences running Google's Adsense adverts on his TiVo-focused weblog, PVRblog. Matt is making a pretty penny


Homage to Hyperlinks
Written by Richard MacManus / October 14, 2003 11:17 PM
I've just finished transferring a bunch of links from Outlook to my linkblog. They are links I've been hoarding over the past few months, as ideas for future weblog articles


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