Non-commodity content, dialogic communication and goose-bumps on a boat, not counting the knowledge graph
What is alive in you today? What makes you click? Aren't you a bit content fatigued- all these waterfalls of content? Faced with infinite streams of content, what would make you stop and read? This is the question that I have been thinking about lately. What should a text do? How would a text help? In my bubble
What I Learnt Teaching Writing for the Web at FH JOANNEUM
It’s 8.59 in Graz. I am late in the sense that I couldn’t arrive earlier to my “Garden of Concepts” web writing workshop for the FH Joanneum Content Strategy Master's program. Yet all is okay. There I am. On a mission: save humanity from mediocre text. I am about to leap into the unknown by asking my
Into the Heart of a UX-driven Knowledge Graph: IKEA’s RDF Way Forward
How is fitness related to a bench? What is suitable for small spaces and can fit by both a sofa and a bed, serving as table but also being flexible to function as a bedside table? And what is a relevant product to complement a bed? Imagine all these questions answered by a furniture website. In one
Taming Academic Text: The Open Research Knowledge Graph
Taming text is hard, taming scientific knowldge is even harder. But what proved the hardest was taming my enthusiasm while preparing this sui generis report about The Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG). Yet another graph I have the pleasure of exploring and presenting to you, of course, always looking at the endeavour with my web content
Don’t Make Me Metadata. All I Want Is Text.
Thinking about the future of text, I often think about communication on the Web. And about the metacommunication that happens in-between its lines of human and machine-readable code. And about the delayed action which any written medium, the Web’s hypertext even more so, breeds. And while thinking about text on the Web I always end up switching
Embodying and Enacting Meaning and Content on the Web: A Dialogue with Heinz Wittenbrink
There are conversations that happen outside what Greeks would call Chronos - the chronological or sequential time, and into what is known as Kairos - the quality, right time, a deep time. My Dialogue with Heinz Wittenbrick happened in Kairos. Heinz Wittenbrick is a blogger, keeping a blog at Lost and Found, a gallery owner (off_gallery graz)
Content To The Power Of Linked Data: Wordlift’s Way
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 . A tool for Semantic Web weavers, as I called it back in 2017 when I first tried it, having followed Andrea Volpini for some time on Google Plus (yes :-)).
Being Dialogic by Being Machine-Readable: Should Marketers Become Metadata Warriors?
On the Web, creating value for the people we want to communicate and exchange with, is not only about satiating their needs for certain content and dialogic experiences. It is also about feeding their web agents with meaningful data. In the context of users interacting with and in data-rich platforms, the need to deliver content in an
Let’s talk about text
Recently I was asked to answer the following question about content: "What’s the best piece of advice you would give someone looking to make their enterprise content more strategic?" I looked at previous writings of mine, used some draft sentences from the book I am currently finishing (Being Dialogic), summoned my enterprise-grade wording and came up with
The Web I Want: Words, Links and Human Relationships
In this post I explore content writing, SEO and digital marketing from the perspective of #thewebwewant and the vantage point the Semantic Web gives us. The Web is a spectacular place, created out of words, links and human relationships. The deeper we can look into how they work together, the richer the digital identities we weave will