The Web of People and Its Dialogic Potential: A Dialogue with prof. Michael Kent
Foraging the Web of science in my first PhD year, in-between somewhat monotonous papers and dry language, suddenly a “blinking” word-portal caught my attention and the tectonics of the world behind my eye moved. The word was “enthymematic”. Little I knew back then that it was a word that will slowly but steadily lead me in the
Surfing the Web Layer of Things, Technology and Thoughts: A Dialogue with Ruben Verborgh
Ruben Verborgh is one of those amazing people I have crossed paths with on my Semantic Web journey. A professor of Semantic Technology, Ruben is a hard-working man (and a rising TEDx star) on a quest to decentralising the Web. I met Ruben through the Solid project on my own way to finding the means to best support
From Envisioning Art to Embedding It with Metadata: A Dialogue with Margaret Warren
Margaret does something that is of uber importance for all of us: she builds and thinks through the technology of describing, storing and retrieving images. Her tool ImageSnippets™, created for anyone who archives, curates or shares images on the Web (who doesn't these days) was born out of her passion and scientific problem: the semantic annotation
A Brand, a Hero and a Delight Well-Designed: A Dialogue with Vinish Garg
Close your eyes and imagine you work as a story designer for brands and start-ups. A dream job, isn't it? And a hard one. As a recent McKinsey report has it, design is more than a feeling, more than a department, more than a phase, more than a product. Now open your eyes and meet Vinish Garg who
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
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
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
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
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
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