Teodora Petkova

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Podcast: The Intertextual Animal


The Intertextual Animal was meant to be a podcast, but for now it is a video series of conversations about the changing nature of textuality on the Web. I host it here and some day I will either move it on my website as a subdomain, or export it to a podcast platform. For now, I am focused on delivering value through the insights I capture from my guest’s heads :)

The themes of the series revolve around:

  • Writing for the Web
  • The Semantic Web
  • Intertextuality
  • Empathy
  • Human connection
  • The dance of code and culture
  • The morphing textuality across the cyber spaces we communicate within.

The idea to explore these themes in a conversational manner was born out of a deep  desire to connect to multitude of layers part of the concept: The intertextual animal.

Some of the  thought adventures you are more than welcome to embark on, together with me and my guests, will be:

      • Man-machine intelligence and what this has to do with the search for meaning (and, sorry, pizza)
      • Data-fed agents and curiosity-nurtured content writers
      • The poiesis of communities online and building of communication bridges
      • Intelligent content and the orchestration of user experiences
      • The importance of analogue threads  when it comes  to “digital”
      • The future of text and the “now” of connecting
      • The roots of intertwingularity in the past

Each conversation of the series will live on YouTube and in a post here, on this website, so you can subscribe to the RSS feed and follow the updates.

Calendar with the intended intertextual adventures for the first half of 2019

Me, squeezed in a paragraph

I am a philologist fascinated by the metamorphoses of text on the Web, curious about the ways the Semantic Web unfolds. Currently I am a PhD student at the Sofia University, exploring how content writing is changing, changing us and the way we think, write and live. Read more about me

My Brave New Text

The Brave New Text  is a book about web writing and how it transforms the way we communicate, exchange, experience and explore thoughts, ideas, goods. It is a kaleidoscope of perspectives through which you will see texts on the web, as new forms of textuality, as webs themselves, as processes that change us, word by word, link by link.

My Tiny Companion to Weaving Texts on the Web

This is a Web Writing guide to help you pave your own road to approaching web writing and making the best of it as a tool for growth, connections and more business.

Wandering Words

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I am currently reading:

Artificial Unintelligence

Writing adventures

  • Our Private and Public Lives: An Allegory of Our Connection With Data December 27, 2020
  • The Data-Centric Future Is Here, It Is Just Not Evenly Distributed: A Dialogue with Alan Morrison November 12, 2020
  • Knock, Knock, Web Weaver… October 26, 2020
  • Seeing Enterprise Content as Semantic Capital September 8, 2020
  • At the interstice of code, culture, and change: A dialogue with Anni Rowland-Campbell August 13, 2020
  • Music, Taxonomies and What Defines a Sandwich: A Dialogue With Bob Kasenchak June 6, 2020
  • The Dialogue is the content May 22, 2020
  • The Web of People and Its Dialogic Potential: A Dialogue with prof. Michael Kent January 12, 2020
  • 4 Web Writing Mistakes To Avoid (and How I Didn’t) December 6, 2019
  • The corporate citizen learns to write on the Web: Blogging as a marketing communications tool July 18, 2019
  • Flying People, Machines and Cities (Newsletter, May 2019) May 20, 2019
  • Raw Notes from Webit Festival 2019 May 20, 2019
  • Digital Text as a Phenomenon of Culture May 19, 2019
  • CV data as Linked Data? April 2, 2019
  • A Call to Intergalactic Adventure (Newsletter, April 2019) April 1, 2019
  • For the Love of the Web March 29, 2019
  • Per aspera ad astra (Newsletter, March 2019) March 2, 2019
  • Surfing the Web Layer of Things, Technology and Thoughts: A Dialogue with Ruben Verborgh February 14, 2019
  • An Ecology of Digital Being of Sorts January 22, 2019
  • From Envisioning Art to Embedding It with Metadata: A Dialogue with Margaret Warren January 7, 2019

Kaleidoscope of Inspiration

  • MIT Technology review
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Think with Google
  • The TED-Ed project
  • Brain Pickings

Curious minds I follow

  • David Amerland’s website
  • Gideon Rosenblatt’s website
  • Aaron Bradley’s The Graph Lounge
  • Bill Slawski’s Blog

I also try to have a newsletter :)

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P.s. Trying to "own my data" I first publish the newsletters here

My series of talks: The Intertextual Animal

Read more at: The Intertextual Animal Video Series

Web Scriptorium: Let’s talk about text on the Web

Web Scriptorium (a corporate web writing training) is live: https://t.co/bzVLSmHkQW. Join me, @DavidAmerland, @mrcruce and @cyberandy (or the “switching-codes collective” as I like to call us :) for a journey across the lands of text, data and meaningful communication on the Web. pic.twitter.com/7WvX9xxnHM

— Teodora Petkova (@TheodoraPetkova) November 1, 2019

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