From Odes to Nodes [Book Excerpt]
“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans”, rhythmically went the first line of the Iliad, imprinted in the minds and hearts of generations of rhapsodes. It was the dactylic hexameter (the rhythmic scheme) of the poem and the poetic workings (the rhetorical power ) of
Swirling concepts in the vortext of sense-making and content creation
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Linked Data and the Good Text [Book Excerpt]
In his “Lecture on Ethics”, Wittgenstein writes that the good way can only be conceived within the context of its goal. The direction Wittgenstein gives is solid - good is what works, what serves a certain purpose. Leveraging this Wittgenstein's proposition, I argue that the good text on the Web is the connected text. And by good
On the Alchemy of Content Strategy and Human Communication with Marie Girard
I met Marie Girard through an article where she beautifully and bravely compared content strategy and design to
An About Page With a Heart
As trivial as writing an About page might seem, it is not. On the Web, our words and the messages we send through writing are the threads that weave the fabrics of our own shared cyberspaces. From there, the process of writing an About page gets a much needed calibration of perspective: You are weaving words in an
Write, Mark-up and Stay Interconnected
I have just added a whole new part to my course Content Writing in the Semantic Web where I talk about the importance and, as a Semantic Web lover, the beauty, of Linked Data and its relation to web writing and content creation and ideation. From my perspective, as a text weaver on the Web, Linked Data
We, Linked Data
We, Linked Data are the ordinary records you might think of when imagining ways to keep, transfer and share information, knowledge or experience. Containing information is both our vocation and our avocation: that’s all we do. And to that, there’s something else, a little more wondrous than the things other data do. We, Linked Data, can, or
Semantic Web Sideways with Andrea Volpini of WordLift
Last year, around March, I set off on a journey to explore the world of Andrea Volpini. I wanted to know more about the Man who makes web content talk - as Scott Abbel dubbed him recently in an interview for Intercom. A year and a Jason Link (Andrea's personal assistant whom you can ask questions about things: https://goo.gl/suLhCD
If Web Writing Had a Muse …
Does writing in cyberspace have a muse, and if yes, what does it look like? What is it that inspires web writing and how is a web text different from other forms of creative expression? And what if there was a bridge connecting the understanding of the Web as a giant repository of our collective memory, to
Information Gardens, Meadows and Woodlands: A Dialogue with Alison Pope
I will be honest. I found Alison Pope while querying Google with my name and the word semantics. As always, the thin thread of code didn’t let me down. It connected me to a writing of Alison's where I lost myself in following all the portals her words and thoughts provided. The moment I read Alison and
Knowledge Soup for the Soul
Thinking about how digital texts fit into the bigger picture of us building richly interconnected informational spaces to embed knowledge in them, I ended up before a knowledge soup. Knowledge Representation and a Soup It is in The Challenge of Knowledge Soup where computer scientist John F. Sowa writes about knowledge and how difficult it is to represent
Swimming into the Depths of User Experience with Mike Atherton
Mike Atherton is an information architect and a content strategist, having started his digital quest for the gestalt of design in the early 90s as a web designer. Straddling bravely the fields of content strategy, information architecture, user experience and interface design, Mike does curious (and hard!) things. He designs interactions, builds spaces with words, visuals and