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This is off our first record, most people don't own it
Written by Richard MacManus / January 23, 2004 10:13 PM / 4 Comments
Well my Fractal Blogosphere concept seemed to generate some interest this week. I think it's the first article I've done that got picked up by the populace without the support of


I am Game Neverending
Written by Richard MacManus / December 25, 2003 9:19 PM / 2 Comments
Summary: I analyse Game Neverending, a multi-player social software web application, and compare it to a virtual world that I created in my recent novel. One of those silly but addictive questionaires is doing the rounds:


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


Pirates of the Blogosphere - the curse of the protocols
Written by Richard MacManus / September 21, 2003 10:05 PM / 1 Comments
Andrew Chen wrote a response to my previous post about Syncato. He thinks I want to create something called a "distributed conversation protocol" and then take over the world. Actually


Syncato and Microcontent Wiki
Written by Richard MacManus / September 20, 2003 9:11 AM
Jon Udell is getting very excited about a new weblog product called Syncato, which is described here: "Syncato is a weblog system designed to extract the maximum potential from the


Tracking conversations with Wikis
Written by Richard MacManus / September 8, 2003 9:11 PM
Don Park has come up with some promising ideas on how to link weblogs with wikis. One of his ideas is for weblog comments to be cross-posted to Wiki pages, via some


May the FOAF be with you
Written by Richard MacManus / September 7, 2003 11:17 PM / 4 Comments
I've been wondering whether to get myself a FOAF file. FOAF stands for "friend of a friend" and it is a method of publishing personal information about yourself in a


Organic stories
Written by Richard MacManus / September 4, 2003 8:52 PM / 3 Comments
Dave Winer links to an essay he wrote 4 years ago about decentralized syndication: "In our [UserLand's] system, each story has a *single* location, the site where it originated. We


Microcontent Wiki
Written by Richard MacManus / August 31, 2003 5:59 PM / 3 Comments
Weblogs and Wikis are authoring tools that enable everyday people to write to the Web. However one part of the Writeable Web is often overlooked: weblog comments. Often some of the best


Ideas swirling around - on Microcontent applications
Written by Richard MacManus / August 25, 2003 4:47 PM
Soon I'm going to shut up and do some actual work on my Web of Ideas application. But I have to note a few interesting things that have surfaced recently


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