12th
manifestopheles
In late March, early April, I was feeling like I needed to make something. My normal role is making things that are used to make things: backends for web-served stuff. I got into such things because I’m devoted to the idea that an open web that openly serves information open to interpretation opens doors to knowing, being and doing more. So there in late March, with those thoughts in mind I created a thing called manifestopheles which is a front end over a TiddlyWeb store of tiddlers.
Thinking about manifestopheles made me realize that I’ve been so focused on TiddlyWeb for last long time that I had rather lost sight of some of the reasons why I’ve been working on it. Once back in the mood of thinking about those things I allowed myself to be volunteered to present at the 8th Open Source Show and Tell. Here’s a video of me ad-libbing alongside some slides managed by the excellent TiddlySlidy.
Chris Dent presents…Manifestopheles from Phil Whitehouse on Vimeo.
Despite my dancing, ums and uhs, and bad posture, it seemed to go pretty well.
That presentation was centered around why I created manifestopheles: a demonstration of the importance of context (a social thing) in the acquisition of knowledge (a very individual thing).
The following week at TiddlyChat I said a few words about how I creatd manifestopheles. It’s an example of something that uses tiddlers and TiddlyWeb without using TiddlyWiki. It’s a simple HTML presentation with a smidgen of jQuery and CSS diddles on top to enable the interaction. The TiddlyWeb HTTP API does all the real work.
There’s another TiddlyChat coming up next week (Tuesday the 18th of May) at the Osmosoft offices.
