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Under the Influence of the Apple AirPods
I’ve loved my Apple AirPods Max since the moment I first placed them over my ears. Overpriced as they may be, they are comfortable, even after resting on my head for hours at a time. Everything from music to Zoom meetings sound phenomenal through them. And when it comes time to shut out the world… Continue reading
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Nonfungible Content: NFTs and Content Management
On Thursday, May 2, 2022, I presented this talk at the ContentTECH Summit in San Diego, CA. NFTs aren’t only for trading artwork and meme GIFs; they may one day be central to the way your organization monetizes, distributes, and verifies content. This session will explore how verifiably unique digital assets have the potential to… Continue reading
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Microcontent Migration: Making the Move to New Content Opportunities
Earlier this week I enjoyed being in Rosemont, Illinois for my first in-person STC Summit conference. I presented on my team’s microcontent migration of an important company document. My slides are below. Download the PowerPoint file for all the animations. There is no recording of the presentation. However, you can read the full proceedings paper.… Continue reading
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Microcontent Architecture in Action NCCI
Earlier this month, I presented at ConVEx 2022 Tempe with Rob Hanna. We spoke about how our company, Precision Content, built a microcontent solution for their complex content situation. If you attended ConVEx 2022 yourself, you can view the recording on the conference website. Our slides are below. Continue reading
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Elon Musk Laughed
Elon Musk is like a real life Ayn Rand protagonist. While many critics of Twitter’s inequitable content moderation policies have proposed amending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act so that Twitter and other social media giants are recognized as publishers rather than platforms, Musk circumvented that less-than-ideal solution entirely. He did the thing that… Continue reading
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“Microcontent Pipeline to Chatbots and Voice Assistants”
Use microcontent to put your team in the driver’s seat to the next level of content publishing for intelligent chatbots. By now reality has revealed that ChatGPT is not ready to write our product documentation for us. With no control over what the publicly-trained models scrape from our websites and blogs and how it assimilates our documentation with other less-authoritative sources, we’re left to wonder where we go next. If we want reliable bots, we’ll need to train our own models and deploy them to our staff and our customers. Let us show you what we’ve learned so far.