eAlmanac is an online reference source dedicated to helping you quickly find the information you are looking for, while offering additional unexpected facts, figures, and stories while you search. The site is made both for people who want a quick answer to such questions as “What are the Seven Deadly Sins?” and for those who delight in delving a little (or a lot) deeper by learning how each of the sins has appeared in works of art and literature over the centuries.
Not just another reference site
We created eAlmanac with the intent of being much more than an index, search engine, or online version of a print publication. First and foremost, eAlmanac takes a different approach to organizing knowledge, using the unusual but inherently fundamental categories of Colors, Letters, Numbers, and Shapes to organize knowledge in a unique, non-linear way. Doing so allows you to think about and explore knowledge in a “follow the thread” manner that is difficult to accomplish in print. Take a look at Numbers > Three. You’ll see information on the myriad sets of three that have been used in different cultures and fields of knowledge. Discovering connections between these diverse fields of thought is just a mouse click away on eAlamanac.
Second, eAlmanac is designed to take advantage of all the Web has to offer. On the site we try not only to answer your question, but also to provide numerous links to related pages both on eAlmanac and off-site, so that you can more fully explore the subject you are researching. Our hope is that while following these links, you will become so immersed in the subject that you lose track of time and become “lost on the Web.” We also hope that some of these links take you to sites that you didn’t know existed or to discussions of topics that you didn’t originally plan to research. In wanting to share our love of the connectivity of knowledge and ideas, we have tried to create an environment where serendipity is planned and “continual digression” is made easy.
Finally, on each page, we suggest books, movies, music, and other related products that you may find intriguing. By taking advantage of the Web’s commerce capabilities, we hope to offer products that not only match your interests, but that you didn’t know existed. We hope that just as you might delight in learning about a new subject or discovering a new fact, you might also get a thrill from learning what related books, movies, or music are available.
Getting lost on the Web: an experience worth having
eAlmanac’s editors and writers try to compose clear and concise explanations and definitions for each topic. We also try to think about each topic in a different way or from a unique angle, making connections between disparate ideas that are not readily apparent. Sometimes, we may find an interesting quote; at other times we might find an interesting—though seemingly unrelated—Web site. Again, take a look at Numbers > Seven > The Seven Deadly Sins. eAlmanac provides a list of the seven sins along with an explanation of how and when this list was created. In addition, you can find interesting and unexpected links when you click on each of the sins. This is what we mean by continual digression: facts, topics, and ideas that are connected, sometimes only tangentially, hyperlinked. eAlmanac’s writers and editors hope you will find these links and others on the site enthralling as you follow them throughout the Web. This is the beauty of “getting lost on the Web.”
Future plans for eAlmanac
We plan to add new content every week or so. Because the Company’s staff is currently quite small, the amount of new content will be somewhat limited initially. As new editors and writers join eAlmanac, greater amounts of content will be added. Long-term plans for eAlmanac include the development of several related Web sites and the addition of greater functionality to the current site.
Our ultimate vision is to create a suite of Web sites that are both entertaining and informative—sites that immediately come to mind when you want to find facts and figures on the Web.
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