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Issue Number 10 - September 1999Home - Subscribe - Archive - Articles - EmailWelcome to the MANTEX newsletter! Here's a quick list of topics covered in our latest issue.
'Information Design' Writing Guides - 'Style: Ten lessons...' What does a dissertation look like? Literary Studies - a new web site ClipMate - a handy utility 'Envisioning Information' Music! Music! Music! There's a new revolution in the digital world, and it's centred on music. The latest MP3 format for sound files offers compression ratios of ten to one. This means that an hour of downloaded music can now be stored in solid-state. File formats of this kind are now amongst the most frequently requested items on the major search engines.
'Information Design' Information designers are currently in earnest debate with each other, setting out their definitions of what is meant by the term and how the profession views itself.
Writing Guides - 'Style: Ten Lessons...'
Help is at hand. We have two sources of
examples. The first is a distinction-winning
dissertation by an Open University student.
It illustrates the quality of argument and
the level of analytic detail required in
work at this level. It's a downloadable
Word document at --
The other source is a web link to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
where they have decided to make their stock
of digitised research papers available.
You can only view these one page at a time,
but there's a good search engine and an
amazingly wide range of subjects from which
to choose. Go to --
Literary Studies - new web site
Features include lecture outlines,
students notes from tutorials, bibliographies,
seminar presentation notes, question analysis,
examples of some good essay-writing techniques,
suggestions for further reading, web site
reviews, and glossaries of technical terms.
The site has sections on general resources,
eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century
literature, research, theses, and dissertations,
and answers to frequently asked questions.
Go to 'Seminar Rooms' at --
There are lots of features on the program
which allow you to edit your selections -
and even recombine them in pre-selected
sequence. There's a shareware demo version,
and like a lot of good software these days,
it is priced realistically to encourage
purchase. Details at --
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The Diamond 'Rio' seems to be the player
of choice for these audio-files - a
Walkman-sized device with no moving parts
and a flash memory card for doubling its
capacity. All the equipment required for
professional-quality sound recording
is now within reach of amateurs - and the
record companies are seriously worried.
How to download files and assemble your
own CDs is the subject of John Hedtke's
fascinating new book from TopFloor -
'MP3 and the Digital Revolution'. There's
lots of new jargon - such as 'burning'
and 'ripping' - but he makes it all clear.
Full details and review article at --
A recent publication from MIT attempts to
summarise the discussion to date. The first
part is a series of theoretical position
papers, then part two offers practical
applications of information design.
Examples range from tactile signage in
an institution for visual disorders, to
graphic tools for thinking and visual
design in three dimensions.
The latter part of the book deals with
design in the field of information technology.
There are considerations of fiction, drama,
and hypertext, and brief excursions into
fractal sculpture and multimedia.
Full details and review article at --
It's geared towards people who can already
write reasonably well, but who would like
to give more elegance and polish to their
written expression. He takes readers through
the essential steps of writing, re-writing,
then editing, editing, and editing yet
again to produce the best results. There
are also exercises and some excellent
step-by-step examples. Full details and
review article at --