My name is Ivan Ivanov. I am President and Co-founder of People Networks, Inc. (2007) and IDI Magic Technologies Corporation d.b.a IDILOGIC (1994). I am also participating in the management of OMEGALAUD, LLC.
My main interests are in the areas of complex database design, social networks and knowledge engineering.
I hold a Master's Degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering – M & G University (Sofia, Bulgaria).
My lifelong hobbies are woodworking and traveling. Unfortunately, I never have enough time for either.
I have a beautiful wife and I consider myself a happy person.
Obviously, I like to spend time on Tutmanik (a People Network), to read, write and chat.
A very good post by Grant McCracken... here is some of it:
"...as when someone tells me they're doing their nails, or I tell them I'm entertaining my cat.
Who on earth cares? What kind of communication is this? Can it be that we are using the internet to issue trivial facts about ourselves? Facts? The "fact" that I am entertaining the cat is so staggeringly unimportant it fails to interest even the cat.
But there is another, anthropological, point of view. Exhaust data is, I think, a clear case of "phatic communication." This is communication with little hard, informational content, but lots of emotional and social content. Phatic communications doesn't get much said, but it has social effects so powerful, it gets lots done."
Read the whole thing...
And this my comment on his post:
me = media = message
I so love the "phatic" thing... after many years of being fascinated by the kataphatic/apophatic thing - now comes the "phatic" resolution. Perfect.
On the other hand, I personally feel somewhat "phatically" challenged... or lacking.
