A couple of weeks ago I began my new life as a full-time freelance Web Analyst and Writer.
One of the things I'll be doing is co-writing a book for O'Reilly Media on the topic of Web 2.0. I started writing it this week.
I've also just started a ZDNet blog, called Web 2.0 Explorer. There are two posts up there already, including one I wrote tonight entitled What is Web 2.0.
With all this Web 2.0 writing I'm doing, you may be wondering what's going to happen to Read/Write Web? Don't worry, my focus here on R/WW will remain on Web 2.0. Indeed I will be doing more detailed analysis and theory posts on the topic. There'll be more deep thinking and I'll be blogging ideas that I plan to cover in the book. I've been impressed by Chris Anderson's ability to develop ideas and gather feedback from the blogosphere about The Long Tail for his book, so I'm hoping to do something similar here.
Oh and I have some exciting new features to try out on Read/Write Web. Stay tuned ;-)
So, over the coming months I'll be drilling down into Web 2.0 on R/WW, in a book, and on my new ZDNet blog. The next step is probably to get a Web 2.0 tattoo.
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Can you say more about what will differentiate the ZDNet blog from this one?
Posted by: Andrew Chen | September 7, 2005 6:21 AM
Richard,
Congrats on hitting the ground running, and writing, as a freelance. Congrats in particular on the book deal. Will you be posting drafts online, a la Red Couch?
Posted by: Andrew | September 7, 2005 6:31 AM
Congrats, great news Richard. Keep it up!
Alex.
Posted by: Alex Barnett | September 7, 2005 7:03 AM
Hey Richard,
I know I owe you an email already, but couldn't go by this one without adding a congratulatory note...
Well done. You don't muck around.
Charles.
Posted by: Charles | September 7, 2005 7:18 AM
Andrew C, the main difference is that I'll be blogging twice as much about Web 2.0 ;-) The ZDNet blog is a paid gig and now that I'm freelance it makes up part of my income. So I have more time for blogging.
Apart from that, as I mentioned in this post I plan to do more ideas-based and analysis posts on R/WW - in some ways returning to my blogging roots, because I started out doing that back in April 2003.
Andrew W, I probably won't post drafts online. But I will certainly be posting about the ideas and themes I'm writing about in the book.
Posted by: Richard MacManus | September 7, 2005 1:04 PM
You should definitely do that tattoo - and make sure you post a pic :-)
Posted by: Phillip Pearson | September 7, 2005 1:46 PM
That's awesome news Richard. Congratulations.
Posted by: Scrivs | September 7, 2005 6:20 PM
Richard MacManus has ARRIVED! Congratulations!
Wow, an actual celebrity-type will be staying at my house next month. :-)
Posted by: Michael Arrington | September 7, 2005 10:10 PM
Richard McManus today.
Jason Calcanis, Batelle, Denton tomorrow.
Break on through Richard to quote The Doors Movie
Blog on.
Posted by: Ben Barren | September 8, 2005 4:49 AM
Richard-
Congrats on the book deal. If you nip down to LA while you're on the US west coast next month, drop me a line!
Kareem
Posted by: Kareem | September 8, 2005 9:37 PM
Does not anyone else feel that "Web 2.0" is an even worse name than "AJAX?"
Posted by: Lijiang | September 8, 2005 11:11 PM
Richard, congrats!
Posted by: Greg Gershman | September 9, 2005 9:31 AM