Let’s talk about text
Recently I was asked to answer the following question about content: "What’s the best piece of advice you would give someone looking to make their enterprise content more strategic?" I looked at previous writings of mine, used some draft sentences from the book I am currently finishing (Being Dialogic), summoned my enterprise-grade wording and came up with
Being Dialogic: Introduction
Being Dialogic is about content perceived and practiced with a view to the archetypal force of human connection and the riches hidden in one of its manifestations: the World Wide Web. Weaving the paradigms of dialogic PR theory, Semantic Web technologies and relationship marketing into the frameworks of the web content lifecycle, it is an invitation to
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
The Intertextual Animal [Book Excerpt]
Consider this. I am the sum of my readings, my immediate surroundings and my experiences. I am also what I write and read on the Web. I constantly transverse analog and digital realms, textual and non-textual fabrics. Such dynamics helps me enrich my life and the Web with an expanded field of relationships where newly connected
Swirling concepts in the vortext of sense-making and content creation
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Linked Data and the Good Text [Book Excerpt]
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. And by good
Knowledge Soup for the Soul
Thinking about how digital texts fit into the bigger picture of us building richly interconnected informational spaces to embed knowledge in them, I ended up before a knowledge soup. Knowledge Representation and a Soup It is in The Challenge of Knowledge Soup where computer scientist John F. Sowa writes about knowledge and how difficult it is to represent
Hi Police, This Is Barbie Speaking… [Fragments from the Digital Festival Webit 2017]
Bagpipes. Young boys and girls dancing to the rhythm of traditional Bulgarian music. The biggest digital festival on the Balkans - Webit is opened. The young people dancing are not talents from an art school as you and me might have thought, they are Bulgaria’s champions in maths, physics, philosophy from the National Gymnasium of Natural Sciences
Text and Web: Two Sides of the Coin Named Interconnectedness
The Web and the Text are intricate networks of words, things, people and the relationships between them. By form, the text and the Web share a lot of common traits. More or less decentralized (no top-down hierarchies included), open to new elements and fostering the exchange of knowledge. By function, texts and the web are intriguingly similar too: both used to