Teodora Petkova

Weaving Texts into the Semantic Web

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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.

My series of talks: The Intertextual Animal

Read more at: The Intertextual Animal Video Series

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.