![From Odes to Nodes [Book Excerpt]](http://www.teodorapetkova.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/computer-3045852_1280.jpg)
“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans”, rhythmically went the first line of the Iliad, imprinted in the minds and hearts of generations of rhapsodes. It was the dactylic hexameter (the rhythmic scheme) of the poem and the poetic workings (the rhetorical power )Continue Weaving
Linked Data and the Good Text [Book Excerpt]
![Linked Data and the Good Text [Book Excerpt]](http://www.teodorapetkova.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Detail-of-Frances-Yates’-reconstruction-of-Giordano-Bruno’s-memory-wheel-from-De-Umbris-Idearum-1582-Warburg-Institute.jpg)
In his “Lecture on Ethics”, Wittgenstein writes that the good way can only be conceived within the context of its goal. The direction Wittgenstein gives is solid – good is what works, what serves a certain purpose. Leveraging this Wittgenstein’s proposition, I argue that the good text on the Web is the connected text. AndContinue Weaving
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 … alchemy. Yes, alchemy! Here is an excerpt from her An Alchemist’s Quest: Designing the Enterprise Content Model: This is where the quest for the Philosopher’s Stone that turns raw content matter into gold took us thus far.Continue Weaving
An About Page With a Heart
As trivial as writing an About page might seem, it is not. On the Web, our words and the messages we send through writing are the threads that weave the fabrics of our own shared cyberspaces. From there, the process of writing an About page gets a much needed calibration of perspective: You are weaving wordsContinue Weaving