The Very Essence of Writing Is: You Want to Tell Someone Something
I don't have a formula for writing. What I have is something I learned from my professor in Creative writing. It goes like this: the very essence of writing is in your desire to tell someone something. So go ahead. Say it! Say it to me, explain it, don't think about writing, think about transfering what your
The Semantic Networks We Write By
To Gideon Rosenblatt and David Amerland The metamorphoses of the written word and the media they exist and evolve within are ubiquitous and require us to rethink the way we conceive and craft content. If we want to use text to its fullest potential and not "drive a Boeing 747 on a highway" or "use the computer as a
Hi Police, This Is Barbie Speaking… [Fragments from the Digital Festival Webit 2017]
Bagpipes. Young boys and girls dancing to the rhythm of traditional Bulgarian music. The biggest digital festival on the Balkans - Webit is opened. The young people dancing are not talents from an art school as you and me might have thought, they are Bulgaria’s champions in maths, physics, philosophy from the National Gymnasium of Natural Sciences
The Semantic Web Through the Eyes of a Content Writer
What is your why for publishing on the Web? Is it traffic, engagement, visibility? Mine is data interoperability. I want to publish texts the data behind can be seamlessly combined with other data and “speaks” to computer programs in a way they can understand. To cut the geeky talk, my why for publishing on the Web has to
Exploring Text, Space and Time with Ariel Malka of Chronotext
There are people to which you have been connected long before you knew them. Fabulous a communication medium, the Web manifests this connection and turns it into real words, real exchange. You just find your people. Call it magic, automagic or just plain network theory, it works. Or at least it works for me. Always. What
Writing and Being a Mom
It's been more than a year since the birth of my son Alexander. Wonder, doubts, love, exhilarating joy, wordless dialogues, an unhealthy number of squeezed cat tails are only few of the billion supernovae managed to fit in these 365 and counting days. I was there too, fragmented, enchanted, oscillating between two worlds. One of them, the
Weaving Linked Data into Texts with WordLift
Innovations do happen at the intersections. One such innovation happened at the intersection between SEO, Content writing and the Semantic Web. It is called WordLift. Below are my notes and thoughts about the experience I had with WordLift, going down the rabbit hole of linking, linking and
Be Concerned with Doing Good Work
I know many writers (my younger self included) out there who struggle with creating web content the way they think it should be and not the way they feel and know in their heart it is to be. This shouldn't be the case. The Web is abounding with examples of integrity (Cluetrain Manifesto) and care (Time Well Spent) and
The Good, the Bad and the Chatbot: A Dialogue with Eva Dimitrova
Eva Dimitrova is a chatbot consultant. She helps companies take the right decisions when considering an automated engagement solution, thinking about what would the whole interaction look like, what should the bot say first, what should be the personality of the bot. Before talking to Eva my chatbots experience was zero. I only could try to come
Text and Web: Two Sides of the Coin Named Interconnectedness
The Web and the Text are intricate networks of words, things, people and the relationships between them. By form, the text and the Web share a lot of common traits. More or less decentralized (no top-down hierarchies included), open to new elements and fostering the exchange of knowledge. By function, texts and the web are intriguingly similar too: both used to
SEO, Linked Data and Your Fridge Browsing the Web
The year is 2068. Your fridge is desperately trying to buy potatoes as per your robot cook’s request, whose algorithms have found the best recipe on the Web for a potato gratin. And just before you start entertaining the thought of having a wonderful dinner thanks to the Internet of Things (that is the Internet where everyday
A Dialogue with Dr. Amit Sheth
Amit Sheth, LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar at Wright State University and executive director of Kno.e.sis, has been walking the semantic web technologies talk for more than a decade. On his exciting and challenging journey toward more meaning in the man-machine collaboration (symbiosis as you will often read him calling it), Dr. Sheth wears several hats at a