Knock, Knock, Web Weaver…
This post is about the poiesis of relationships on the Web and the essence of their content. In marketing communications speak, this post provides several dots to connect in order to see the new communication scenario we are all in, and start weaving the Web, accordingly. Definitions of web content, in the context of marketing communications and
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
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
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
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
An Ecology of Digital Being of Sorts
It’s been 30 years since the World Wide Web transformed our lives and allowed us to connect, communicate and create on an unprecedented level, reminds us a report by the Web Foundation called The Case for the Web. Among the many interesting things the report contains, the part about blogging, content and ultimately the unrealized potential of
The Project Solid as a Road Assembling Itself on the Go
The Linked Data social ecosystem Solid is a work in progress. So are its UX and UI. Roads assembling themselves on the go. But let's face it, isn't our own understanding of how we use, curate and give our data on the Web one that is still shaping and evolving? One that needs reassessing and reframing? We have
What I Learned Writing The Brave New Text?
The Brave New Text, my book of essays about the metamorphoses writing and textuality undergo on the Web, is out in the world. It is now an artefact, a corpus of texts looking to find its own way into the giant intertextual fabrics of the Web. Now that I finished the boom, I have another "writing" journey
Towards a Semantic Web Ethos [Book Excerpt]
Beneath every website, application, email, even under the tiniest tweet flow tons of data. Once linked, not unlike the documents we connect through hyperlinks, these data can create a whole new layer, woven in the Web’s fabrics. This layer is called the Semantic Web. Many paths enter the understanding of the Semantic Web concept. Most of them
The Web of Data Is Far From Done: The Project Solid
The Web of Data is all grassroots and we, its people, are to weave it. It is up to us to take action and avoid the fragmentation of the Web. It is up to us to understand the value and the importance of the data we are so easily giving away to silo platforms. Now, we can act