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
Web Writing with Verve
Shown a typewriter and asked what it is, a kid responded: it helps you send messages to other people, leaving me wordless and a magic formula richer, when it comes to writing. Below are my notes, the major things I wanted to share from my experience as a content writer and my fascination as a Semantic Web explorer in the webinar How
Don’t Be a Digital Stranger, Fear Not Web Writing
The Web is growing more and more beautiful. As our understanding of it becomes clearer, we gradually realize that online presence is not a separate system from offline existence but a system within this system. Step by step, our activities across web properties carve out spaces for better communication and collaboration. Text by text, we leave digital
On the Wings of Desire
Like any writing, web writing has its visible, quantifiable and relatively easy to categorize and assess part. This part is formed of blog posts, website copy, newsletters, various chunks of text for social media shares, infographics, presentations, product descriptions. Underneath this visible part lies another one, hidden from the surface. This intangible part cannot be observed directly
Semiosphere
The Universe of Signs The term semiosphere [from Greek sēmeion ‘sign’ (sēma ‘mark’) + -sphere] was originally introduced in 1984 by Yuri Lotman to denote space within which constantly function and emerge processes of signification. In his words this is “a specific sphere, possessing signs, which are assigned to the enclosed space. Only within such a space is
I, Text
I am a text - the ordinary text to be read and written by everyone aspiring to fly beyond time and space and communicate their thoughts to someone else. Some like to think of me as a phenomenon of culture, some as a combination of signs and meanings. Others see only the part of me that can