[WebCultures] The Digital Manifesto Archive

[Marcin Wilkowski]

so, a nice list of cute manifestos:

Slow Blogging Manifesto
http://toddsieling.com/slowblog/?page_id=10

The Slow Science Manifesto
http://slow-science.org/

Manifesto for Agile Software Development
http://agilemanifesto.org/iso/en/

The Anti Web 2.0 Manifesto
https://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-April/002435.html

The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
http://manifesto.humanities.ucla.edu/2009/05/29/the-digital-humanities-manifesto-20/

Manifesto for the Digital Humanities
http://tcp.hypotheses.org/411

Web Kids' manifesto (it came from Poland within the anti-ACTA movement)
http://boingboing.net/2012/02/22/web-kids-manifesto.html

Metahumanist Manifesto
http://www.metahumanism.eu/



2014-09-01 12:44 GMT+02:00 Rudolf Ammann <ammann at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014, Matt Applegate wrote:
>
>> If anyone has a manifesto they want archived, send it my way for
>> consideration!
>
> Hi Matt -- The Digital Manifesto Archive looks like a great idea!
>
> You might want to add Josh Quittner's 'Birth of the Way New
> Journalism' (1995), which doesn't claim to be a manifesto, but it's
> often discussed as such:
>
> <http://web.archive.org/web/19981206095223/http://www.hotwired.com/i-agent/95/29/waynew/waynew.html>
>
> Feel free to ignore the following, but in case you want some feedback
> on technical aspects of your Archive:
>
> * The recital of the full metadata is of course good archival policy,
> but its positioning above the text is a strong impediment to (human)
> readability: readers have to scroll through a whole barrage of data
> before they get to the actual piece. This barrage includes three text
> instances of the title, and often a fourth, graphically rendered
> instance of the same title, which, in terms of readability, seems
> muddled. Couldn't you get the metadata out of the human reader's way
> by either placing it in the sidebar or underneath the text?
>
> * The re-formatting of every manifesto in nothing but break tags is
> very reductive, and researchers might want to use a richer version of
> a piece even once the current source has disappeared (in Quittner's
> 'Way New Journalism' mentioned above, for instance, the 'cool'
> background and the magazine aesthetics of the layout are very much
> part of the message, and they are stripped away at the peril of losing
> some of that message). I wonder if you couldn't make sure every one of
> your manifestos is captured by the Internet Archive, and then provide
> a link to this fuller capture?
>
> Best,
>
> Rudolf
>
> -----
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> Designer at Large
> UCL Centre for Digital Humanities
>
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