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Learning from Hardware: ‘imaging’ this…

Learning from Hardware: ‘imaging’ this…

I just stumbled upon this definition: “An image (from Latin imago) is an artifact, usually two-dimensional (a picture), that has a similar appearance to some subject, usually a physical object or a person.” (wikipedia) and it triggered this analogy…
By Bas Bisseling on 02/26/09 Comments Off on Learning from Hardware: ‘imaging’ this…
Digital Music Becomes (more) Rhizomatic

Digital Music Becomes (more) Rhizomatic

As digital audio files continue to flow freely on the Internet, music itself mimics certain inherent characteristics of the web best understood through Gilles Deleuze...
By Chris Castiglione on 02/26/09 Comments Off on Digital Music Becomes (more) Rhizomatic

Can African reporters equipped with smart phones help improve accountability and transparency in development aid?

Tomorrow Africa Interactive and the International Resource Center for Water and Sanitation will compete for the WeMedia GameChangers award. Here is an outline of my presentation. All comments, thoughts and ideas are welcome ! Africa Interactive is working to...
By Ben White on 02/25/09 1
Research Project: ICT 4 Uganda

Research Project: ICT 4 Uganda

New media is coming to Africa. With the fastest growth rate of mobile telephony on the planet and huge investments in fiber optic cables competing with satellite technologies, investors are bringing broadband connections to the continent. Africa is on...
By Ben White on 02/25/09 3

Follow and Connect on Twitter

On a lot of social network sites a friend has to be approved and this only works if both users add each other. This also means that one of the two can break up and the other one loses...
By Hannah Biemold on 02/20/09 3
A decline in P2P-sharing

A decline in P2P-sharing

I just read an article on Tweakers that Ipoque, a German company that sells ‘deep packet inspection-hardware’, has published a study on the distribution of protocol classes. This chart is a representation of their findings.
By Bas Bisseling on 02/20/09 1

From compression artifact to filter

An archeology of a compression filter. A couple of months ago I was approached by a company that asked me for my knowledge on glitch and compression artifacts. They were especially interested in recreating bleeding pixels. I recognized their...
By Rosa Menkman on 02/19/09 2

Online video in China leading the way

An interesting video report by The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) on online video and TV in China and the way that it will influence the West in the near future
By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 02/19/09 1
The Pirate Bay on trial

The Pirate Bay on trial

Around 2 years ago, the investigations (which have been the longest ever in Sweden) into the Pirate Bay’s presumed copyright infringements began. The scale of the issues at stake in this trial is maybe best summed up by a...
By Rosa Menkman on 02/17/09 2

Using Twitter for book summaries

Every university- or college student has to deal with books to build a foundation of knowledge within a field of expertise. My learning method is no different than method other students use (I Think). This is my method; the...
By Bas Bisseling on 02/17/09 5

Latent Remixability

In the early days, photography was solely predestined for the photographer. This skilled worker governed both the analogue camera as the development of its negatives. The dawn of the digital age introduced a less labor intensive way to produce...
By Bas Bisseling on 02/09/09 3