Don’t Be a Digital Stranger, Fear Not Web Writing
The Web is growing more and more beautiful. As our understanding of it becomes clearer, we gradually realize that online presence is not a separate system from offline existence but a system within this system. Step by step, our activities across web properties carve out spaces for better communication and collaboration. Text by text, we leave digital
A sample lesson from the course Content Writing in the Semantic Web
This is a sample lesson from my course Content Writing in the Semantic Web. Good content is created when people are becoming parts of the structures you’ve built to serve them and to invite them to interact with you. Think of content writing as the best way to future-proof your digital strategy and use it to
The Rhetorical Triangle and the 4 Vs of Data
When the Rhetorical Triangle Met the 4 Vs of Data I believe the characteristics of data and the principles of Rhetorics can create a special mix for communicating effectively on the web. What follows is a map of a thought journey across times and disciplines at the end of which I hope lies a deeper understanding of how content writing can serve us better
A Conceptual Basis for Content Writing
Thinking in broader context when it comes to content writing may take some more time and effort but that’s a small price to pay for the benefit of the resulting ability to create: texts rich enough to truly serve you to connect an environment that is right for your stories to grow (i.e. to attract more participants) Publishing on
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
A Dialogue with Gina Fiedel
We are all poets. We create worlds, we are painters, connecting the dots of shared meaning; we are dancers, gracefully moving across intertextual environments, leaving patterns and figures all around us; we are artisans shaping our understanding into the clay of life. Comparing writing to painting, the Roman lyric poet Horace wrote ut pictura poiesis that is
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