Richard MacManus

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Tech analyst @ agenticweb.news · Internet historian @ cybercultural.com · Founded ReadWriteWeb (2003-2012) · 🥝 in 🇬🇧 Agentic Web News: @ricmac.agenticweb.news.ap.brid.gy Leaflet: https://ricmac.leaflet.pub

Web Design Index by Content.02 book cover
Boy Kavalier from Alien:Earth
Despite the lull in development of the semantic web of the 1990s, by the late 2000s, I was beginning to see a way forward. I have always believed the web should be a two-way thing: a place to write, as well as to read. Richard McManus, a journalist and blogger, captured this spirit in a blog he named the read-write web'. It was also a big value with the W3C team: my original WorldWide Web.app on the NeXT had been an editor, not simply a browser: an application, like a word processor, which allows you to create and modify material as well as just read it. At INRIA, the French national computer science lab, Vincent Quint and Irene Greif had built a hypertext browser-editor, where you could even edit diagrams. The W3C website was set up so that you could submit your own web page. And of course, Wikipedia is a great realization of this idea. So for documents, we can set up a read-write web.
David Bowie the internet visionary, in 1999
poll: What do you call your personal website these days? (if none of these options, please comment)
Red robin
Two magpies at a bird feeder
European goldfinch
North Island robin
F1: Liam Lawson finishes ahead of Yuki Tsunoda in both Bahrain practice sessions
10 years of KubeCon
UK starling
Alpha Pheasant
Pheasant standoff
Pheasant
UK pheasant
Tumblr website, Jan/Feb 2007
early IUMA images
great spotted woodpecker
Red fox
Fake account
Some FUD about the img tag
It was a subtle change that Facebook made, and the implication only became clear much later: you don’t control what you see in your feed every day, Facebook does.
"Careers in Multimedia: Roles and Resources" by Hal Josephson and Trisha Gorman
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution 1984 non-fiction book by Steven Levy
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin
Robert X. Cringely Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition and Still Can't Get a Date
The soul of a new machine, Tracy Kidder
David Hesmondhalgh The Cultural Industries
JG Ballard: A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews
I’m a top 0.1% fan of David Bowie, according to Spotify Wrapped.
Thierry Bardini Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing
Lurking: How a Person Became a User, Joanne McNeil
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story Lewis, Michael
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld Released February 1998
David Weinbeger, Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web, 2002
This image is from Tim Berners-Lee, but I used it in this 2009 presentation of Web 2.0 trends. It states: “Linked Data: let a thousand flowers bloom”
Leslie Berlin Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
George Dyson Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
del.icio.us circa 2005
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man is a 1964 book by Marshall McLuhan, in which the author proposes that the media, not the content that they carry, should be the focus of study.
Desktop version of Cybercultural
Ellen Ullman; Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet By Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee
Taking Your Takent to the Web by Jeffrey Zeldman
Great tit bird, South Wales
Shazam! tv show, early 80s, NZ
Reddit thread on what is a list and starter pack
#nba hashtag used to create a feed
Poster for 'The Social Network' movie, October 2010. Text: "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies."
Front cover of Bubble Blog.
4 great tits on a bird feeder