Meaning, text, understanding and two pieces of jazz
Good texts, just like good conversations, are the ones that change you. You are transformed after having read them: you either know something more, learned something new, or have decided what to do next, how to solve a problem. I use good here for something very basic, that is “able to serve its purpose”. In the case of
The Slow Web Concept Applied to Google Plus
Hopping on for a Google + ride can be a roller-coaster thrill or a Ferris wheel experience. For me. it’s the latter. I believe viewing the platform in the light of the Slow Web is a wise start. Why? For three reasons. Relationships that matter have nothing to do with the quick rotating mass of social media feeds The
A Dialogue with Gina Fiedel
We are all poets. We create worlds, we are painters, connecting the dots of shared meaning; we are dancers, gracefully moving across intertextual environments, leaving patterns and figures all around us; we are artisans shaping our understanding into the clay of life. Comparing writing to painting, the Roman lyric poet Horace wrote ut pictura poiesis that is
Content Strategy perceived as Ariadne’s Thread
It is around VIII century BC. Theseus, the mythical king of Athens, has arrived to Crete and is about to face his next adventure - kill the Cretan Minotaur. The beast, half bull and half man, is kept in the legendary Cretan Labyrinth where thousands have found their death either trying to kill the ferocious creature or searching
Serving and community spirit building on Google Plus
I love interviews, I did series of them throughout my writing career for several projects, both mine and for clients. There’s one series that left a mark in my heart and with that I made difference.The series is called and was designed to serve the purposes of the PYB Academy community spirit: help people get
Synesthesia: The Wondrous World of Cross-linked Senses
A harmless condition characterized by blending of the senses – colours associated with letters and numbers, smells and tastes perceptually linked to music, sounds triggering the perception of shapes, synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon which reminds us that not everyone experiences the world the way we do. From brown squared orgasms, through ringing that feels rough like a
Semantic Web, Relationships and a Piece of Conceptual art
In our hypermodern times it looks like that the answer to what something is lies a click or a thought away, somewhere between “Ask Google” and “I don’t need Google, my wife knows everything.” But, really, what defines a thing, a person or a place? Is it its definition alone, or is it the words used to signify it? Could
Writing is skating on a vert ramp
Writing is not easy. It scares a lot of people, mostly writers. Sitting there, face to face with the unwritten, murmuring wordlessly text is hard. Not running away is a habit to be cultivated and nurtured all life. It takes guts to sit, start and keep unearthing treasures from the depths of “your” mind. As David Amerland puts it: It’s
Let the writer in
Many people (small, big or no business owners) think they cannot, should not, or better not write. This is wrong. Business, at its core, is a channel for communication, a channel between systems. So is writing. It is realizing new connections, reinforcing existing ones and at the same time discovering and mapping new touch points. Not writing is
A dialogue with David Amerland
Fascinated by the concept of Liberature, I wanted to invite the even more fascinating writer, speaker and analyst David Amerland to a conversational search for meaning beyond the traditional form of the interview. However my understanding of what the author of the best-selling book Semantic Search does, as disruptive and non-traditional it is, stopped me, reminding me