Seeing Enterprise Content as Semantic Capital
In this blog, I want to invite you to an exploratory intellectual journey towards a deeper understanding of “content”. “holy mother of cheeses, the Internet is not made out of content.” Yes. There is so much more to content than the creation and management of resources published on the Web. To begin with there is the relationship as the
At the interstice of code, culture, and change: A dialogue with Anni Rowland-Campbell
It’s 11.01. I am half-way home, just finishing my morning walk. And I am one minute late for an online event called Brave Conversations. It feels awkward to be late for an event hosted by brilliant people like Intersticia and, nota bene, with the participation of Dame Wendy Hall. Yet, the pull is so strong that I decide to
Music, Taxonomies and What Defines a Sandwich: A Dialogue With Bob Kasenchak
Think cheeseburger. Now think rhythm. Now listen: “Cheeseburger, hot-dog, Cheeseburger, hot-dog”, this is how I once heard prof. Milcho Leviev explaining how he introduces people to the asymmetrical rhythms of Bulgarian folk music. [Check Maestro Leviev's Bulgarian Boogie] Fast forward to these when reading and thinking about knowledge, meaning and life brings me as much pleasure as
The Dialogue is the content
It is 1961. California. A salesman has his motorized roller skates refuelled at a gas station. In a sense he has his potential to drive sales augmented - he will be moving faster, transmitting the "marketing message" to more people, with higher efficacy. And just as he gains speed to reach yet another door
The Web of People and Its Dialogic Potential: A Dialogue with prof. Michael Kent
Foraging the Web of science in my first PhD year, in-between somewhat monotonous papers and dry language, suddenly a “blinking” word-portal caught my attention and the tectonics of the world behind my eye moved. The word was “enthymematic”. Little I knew back then that it was a word that will slowly but steadily lead me in the
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