Teodora Petkova

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The world is full of things and somebody has to look for them

Thing-finding is connecting the dots in a new way and thus building unexpected bridges of understanding. Expressed in the terms of visibility in search this means broader reach and set of connections.

Search is not only informational, transactional or navigational. It also has a lot to do with discovery, with our innate need for a quest. A quest for meaning.

In an era when everything not only online but also offline step by step becomes interconnected, collecting serendipitous discoveries is like finding paths to open doors across the web.

Think of this section as a one of those Cabinets of curiosities (Wunderkammer), where the objects are not items, but rather concepts and ideas.

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Raw Notes from Webit Festival 2019

May 20, 2019 by Teodora Petkova

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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 myContinue Weaving

Semiosphere

May 20, 2015 by Teodora Petkova

Diatoms

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 suchContinue Weaving

Synesthesia: The Wondrous World of Cross-linked Senses

January 12, 2015 by Teodora Petkova

Kandinsky White Zig Zags 1

A harmless condition characterized by blending of the senses – colours associated with letters and numbers, smells and tastes perceptually linked to music, sounds triggering the perception of shapes, synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon which reminds us that not everyone experiences the world the way we do. From brown squared orgasms, through ringing that feels roughContinue Weaving

Liberature: Setting texts, authors and readers free

November 13, 2014 by Teodora Petkova

Liberature example of a book

Liberature is literature where the book does not contain a literary work, it is the literary work itself. On an even more abstract level it is a creative where content and its material form are an organic unity, intricately interwoven, in terms of the meaning conveyed. The concepts behind and around Liberature The term forContinue Weaving

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

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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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