4 Web Writing Mistakes To Avoid (and How I Didn’t)
Clarity in any environment takes energy, devotion and focus. On the Web, in a cyberspace with many intertwingled signals competing for our attention even more so. As David Amerland once shared: In a digital environment we are constantly switching between codes and, cultures, compensating the lack context or simply looking to decipher unknown threads of narrative and
The corporate citizen learns to write on the Web: Blogging as a marketing communications tool
The article aims to look at the corporate blog from the perspective of corporate citizenship concept and thus define business blogging as an effective marketing communications tool on the Web, only if used as a two-way, authentic, audience-wise communication practice. The potential of the business blog as a marketing tool is seen through the prisms of
Flying People, Machines and Cities (Newsletter, May 2019)
I love it when I see traces of semiotic processes in all kinds of places, not only on my favourite one - the Web semiopshere. May was such a month. First, I found this: These are stairs at the national Palace of Culture with inspiring lines by the Bulgarian poet Valeri Petrov. The poem is called Flying People and
Raw Notes from Webit Festival 2019
In 2019 for yet another year Mr. Plamen Russev and his team did make a difference in the world of with Webit.Festival. The festival brought up on the stage a huge doze of inspiration and the best out of all investors, innovators, politicans and game changers for the cause of enlighted future! Here are my raw notes from
Digital Text as a Phenomenon of Culture
These are my slides from the International Forum of the Faculty of Slavic Studies at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" 2019 where I talked about how I saw digital text. What makes digital text different? I. Text-specific differences Hypertext Ease of publishing, distribution, access (search/retrieval) Non-linearity, fragmentation Potentially all kinds of containers (DNA included) II. Context-specific differences (where
CV data as Linked Data?
Digital space is actual space, the space in which we live. A space is a set of relationships between objects; in our contemporary society, space is a hybridization of connected and non-connected objects that are structured by writing. Marcello Vitali-Rosati, On Editorialization: Structuring Space and Authority in the Digital Age Just yesterday I finished my application for a
A Call to Intergalactic Adventure (Newsletter, April 2019)
We are powerful storytelling engines and our imagination and the number of semantic networks we can create is endless. And so are the opportunities to connect on the Web. Through writing. That was the main thread running through the activities of a seminar I organized this March in Bulgaria. It was called Web Scriptorium and my
For the Love of the Web
In 1991, the year when U2 (my favourite band) released the album Achtung Baby, the World Wide Web went live! It was on 6 August 1991and there was no fanfare in the global press and in fact, most people around the world didn't even know what the Internet was, as the people from The Next Web wrote. 30
Per aspera ad astra (Newsletter, March 2019)
This last month I found myself busy chasing "all things digital", and having forgotten that not all things are meant to be digital. Cyberspaces, as beautiful as their potential is, are only but a layer in a larger tapestry. A layer - rich, intriguing and increasingly machine-readable, a fragment (and a fractal) of our live's patchwork, yet not meant
Surfing the Web Layer of Things, Technology and Thoughts: A Dialogue with Ruben Verborgh
Ruben Verborgh is one of those amazing people I have crossed paths with on my Semantic Web journey. A professor of Semantic Technology, Ruben is a hard-working man (and a rising TEDx star) on a quest to decentralising the Web. I met Ruben through the Solid project on my own way to finding the means to best support