Hello All,
I've been messing about with an introduction to TW
I saw a lecture on Alan Turing in Manchester last week. The lecturer
explained recursion as "taking something you've got and using it to
make something else". I thought, "thats nice!"
My systems friends seem to get confused about recursion (like me), but
i thought i'd design a TW starting with exploring patterns, and
deviations from patterns.(Turings final work was about patterns I was
to learn - morphogenesis)
AnywaysUp, here [1] is the product of a sunday night tiddle in front
to Countryfile
I wanted to create something that uncovers the TW design during
exploration. The idea was that the complexity would emerge though the
user editing and deleting CSS that hides elements - tags for example.
One simple CSS rule applied to a simplified ViewTemplate would
introduce StyleSheets so that the user / readers is not overwealmed by
new information.
Starting with a vanilla TW, my first thought was there there was too
much complexity in GettingStarted. I wanted to show how a Tiddler
could fill up the tiddlers like SiteTitle, Sitesubtitle and MainMenu.
I felt that the wikified "TiddlyWiki" was a distraction, as were tags
and the tiddlers subtitle. The [[Double Bracketed Link]] was promoted
the first word.
SiteSubtile was changed and the gradient and shadows removed from the
header. I thought that the <span> introduced an exception to early on,
and there was a &nbs there which could confuse. Overall I wanted to
PageTemplate to look simpler than the ViewTemplate, at least at the
start of the exploration.
I also re-purposed the the brown monospaced text produced by {{{these
brackets}}} for the edit template. I think this allows reference to
the editor mode more easily from the view template. Wikitext is the
first and most simple 'code' that the user experiences. The work is
unfinished -- and will probably remain that way.
I then 'spun it out', opening a backup and building on that. The
result is a TW exploring cyborg leadership [2]. Its about not really
knowing where you are going, but going roughly in the right direction.
Roughly going in the right direction is the feeling i enjoyed when
first discovering TW. The gentle learning curve at the beginning is
what I think made it so addictive early on. Learning in small chunks
has instant reward - a characteristic of many an addiction. Applying
this principal to learning or explaining something else is a skill i
think has been honed by TW as a thinking tool but also as a designed
object, a creative artifact.
best wishes
Alex
[1] https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1316865/AlexHough/tiddlytests/empty%282%29.html
[2]
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1316865/AlexHough/tiddlytests/empty%282%29.20110214.0710324890.html
On 14 February 2011 12:42, Alex Hough <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Jeremy
>
> I recall you mentioning 'Mise en scène' when I visited Osmosoft House.
> Miss Marple was mentioned if i recall accurately.
>
> Personally, when I first discovered TW, I was charmed by the fact that
> the inventor of this intriguing thing had written the tiddlers and had
> his name in the code. The modifer field of each tiddler displayed
> JeremyRushton and looking at the Code you could see "TiddlyWiki
> created by Jeremy Ruston, "
>
> These two choices cast TW as "small" and "English".
>
> To me any kind of mis en scene is difficult concept to get across over
> the web, but i think the choice of language "tiddler" and the fact
> that the inventor wrote the manual -- for me at least -- drew me into
> the TW project.
>
> Language is a funny thing, i could have misinterpreted your meaning of
> mise en scène to construct my own.
>
> Please don't take this the wrong way, but I think a certain Miss
> Marpleness has been lost somewhere along the non-linear path to the
> drawing room.
>
> So, if modesty allows, I would vote for the signed subtitles, whoever
> they written by.
>
> Also, can you elaborate on your understanding of mise en scène?
>
> best wishes
>
> Alex
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_sc%C3%A8ne
>
> On 14 February 2011 10:08, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> wrote:
>> As mentioned over the last couple of weeks, we've been spending some time at
>> Osmosoft preparing for an update of http://tiddlywiki.com. The content had
>> become pretty out of date, full of dead links and information that wasn't
>> always helpful.
>>
>> One of the issues with updating the site up until now has been that the
>> update process has been pretty painful. We've taken steps to improve that by
>> using TiddlySpace to host the content for editing, with a relatively simple
>> process take a snapshot of the content and publish it to tiddlywiki.com.
>>
>> Our goals have been:
>> - to re-emphasise tiddler links to encourage visitors to click through to
>> explore the content
>> - to simplify the proposition of the site
>> - to remove dead links and outdated material
>> - to improve the user guide and reference material to make it complete and
>> accurate
>>
>> We've marginally increased the default font size but otherwise left the
>> styling alone. I'm keen to revisit the default theme in the future.
>>
>> The draft content is at:
>>
>> http://tiddlywiki-com.tiddlyspace.com/
>>
>> It automatically includes reference information from:
>>
>> http://tiddlywiki-com-ref.tiddlyspace.com/
>>
>> The plan now is to publish the site, and try to keep up a slightly faster
>> pulse of updates.
>>
>> We would welcome comments about the draft material, and any contributions
>> are welcome. If there is sufficient interest we can open up the draft spaces
>> for wider editing.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
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