A Dialogue With Peter Hatherley
In this Dialogue, I would like to introduce you to Peter Hatherley of Latent Semantics. He is a word lover whose love never remained unrequited. Peter's deep interest in words led him to develop a tool for creating semantically connected word banks. An empathetic robot that dabbles in SEO The tool is called CISE (Conceptual Intelligence Search Engine) and it lets
A Dialogue with Colby Brin
Somewhere on the web, recovering from a content deluge that took not one or two text victims, there are 50-odd people on a mission to rescue the corporate world from the tyranny of linguistic mediocrity. They are The Writer. In love with words, naming and thinking, The Writer’s team focus on language, because it’s the thing they all
I, Text
I am a text - the ordinary text to be read and written by everyone aspiring to fly beyond time and space and communicate their thoughts to someone else. Some like to think of me as a phenomenon of culture, some as a combination of signs and meanings. Others see only the part of me that can
On the joy of communicating (through writing)
There is no ugly side of content writing. The bad taste in your mouth when hearing the term comes from its past abuses and bad practices related to perceiving writing as an errand, a tedious task, an activity to fill pages with content, lot’s of content. This article is my attempt to remind you what every thing-finder knew well,
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
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
Liberature: Setting texts, authors and readers free
Liberature is literature where the book does not contain a literary work, it is the literary work itself. On an even more abstract level it is a creative where content and its material form are an organic unity, intricately interwoven, in terms of the meaning conveyed. The concepts behind and around Liberature The term for this art form
The Brave New Text
Writing is being You don’t write a good text. A good text happens. Like a vortex, where whirling currents of informational fields meet, drawing words, meanings and concepts from seemingly distant areas of knowledge. Writing is endless building It comes into being long before it has been written down and continues to live long after the last word. What