Hi Jeremy One of the more interesting things in this interview is how you comment how Mental Nodes has realized the vision you had for originally creating TiddlyWiki (16:10 in the video):
It's very close to the motivation for doing TiddlyWiki for me was that I > wanted to blog, I wanted to participate in the blogosphere but obviously > being a software person thought I could write software as a displacement > activity. My thinking was it would be easier to write in small > interconnected chunks and then my readers could decide which asides to > follow and so on, and of course I've never done it years ago, having had > that plan. It's really lovely for me to see. I mean lots of people have > made static sites with TiddlyWiki but I think it's what you're trying to > accomplish with it is much more ambitious and interesting to say very much > what I hoped we would see and so, yeah, very very joyous. Careful TiddlyWiki historians will note you mentioned this also in a previous interview with Saq Imtiaz <http://web.archive.org/web/20080417095018/http://lewcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/history-of-tiddlywiki-interview-transcript.pdf> - History of TiddlyWiki <https://vimeo.com/852169> *Jeremy:* Yes, well, it’s part of a lot of work I’ve done over the years in > Wiki’s. I’ve been interested in Wiki’s for seven or eight years, and worked > with them professionally – all the organisations I’ve worked with for the > last eight years have used Wiki’s. So there’s a range of things that are.. > a range of topics that I’ve been interested in for a while with Wiki’s. The > particular thing that prompted me then was that I wanted to participate in > the blogosphere, which kind of technically meaning having a website that I > could write on and an RSS feed that people could subscribe to, but I > recognise some of my weaknesses as a writer, and one of them is that blogs, > to me, well .. it encourages you to write in a kind of long passages of > text, and kinda what you end up with is a stream of consciousness. And I > wanted to find a way to write in the same way, to try and write every day, > just have the same discipline as a blogger, but instead of creating a > stream of consciousness, to kind of knit together a coherent manifesto of > my beliefs. So I was hoping that by dripping in a little bit of content > every day, what I’d end up with was something that would be much more > useful and consumable than a stream of consciousness. But of course, > <laughs> when I actually created TiddlyWiki, I never quite got around to > using it in the way that I intended. > So it's nice to see it all coming full circle. ;) Thanks Mark Kerrigan On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 5:28:17 AM UTC-7, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > TiddlyWiki Hangout #106 is now available to watch on YouTube, with my > guest Anne-Laure Le Cunff showing the workflow for publishing her digital > garden from TiddlyWiki to mentalnodes.com: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuU3MrxdKcU > > Many thanks to Anne-Laure! Next week I’ll be joining Dave Gifford for a > tour through his recent creations, > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > p.s. Apologies for the blurriness of the video, entirely my production > mistake, hopefully I’ve now figured it out for next weeks recording -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ae0dde38-4f02-4ded-8889-c15eb6e4ef55%40googlegroups.com.
