Monthly Archives: April 2009

Peer pressure

Bas Bisseling | 18 April 2009, 8:44 pm | 5 comments

“When Napster told the district court that it had developed a technology to block the transfer of 99.4 percent of identified infringing material, the district court told counsel for Napster 99.4 percent was not good enough. Napster had to push the infringements ‘down to zero’. If 99.4 percent is not good enough, then this is a war on file-sharing technologies,…


New Media meets old Media

Ali Balunywa | 16 April 2009, 8:15 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

 

I started working on my research proposal last year. By the beginning of this year, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. And that is to research on the impact of ICT use on the print media journalist. I started establishing contact with the New Vision, the largest print media organization in Uganda.

I…


The 45-Hour Flight To Africa

Ali Balunywa | 16 April 2009, 7:29 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Ben and I booked the same flight to Uganda: Egypt Air. The flight was supposed to take off at 3.30pm from Schiphol airport (Amsterdam) on Saturday 4 April 2009.  We were to transit through Cairo in Egypt lasting one hour and proceed to Entebbe in Uganda.

We boarded the plane in time and sat for almost an…


CBS: 29.000 Predators on MySpace

Arno de Natris | 16 April 2009, 3:34 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

The Internet gives the citizen possibilities for surveillance. Citizens use these possibilities when they think vertical surveillance fails. Especially children are put into discourses of surveillance as if they are members of a vulnerable group, not watched over by the state. They are (passive) preys who will be detected by pedophiles as practising predators in public and virtual spaces.…


First impressions on ICT in Kampala

Guido van Diepen | 15 April 2009, 9:47 pm | 7 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

On the plane from Cairo to Kampala I met a young Ugandan guy of 19 years old who just flew back from a tennis match in Egypt. He was a real cosmopolitan; he had traveled already all over the world for tennis matches, he studied as well in Uganda as in South Africa and he got a scholarship for next…


TweetDeck: A Cyberspace Odyssey

| 10 April 2009, 11:20 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

Some people get very nervous using Twitter; they find the constant stream of (seemingly) unimportant personal exclamations incredibly annoying. They say: how on Earth are you supposed to keep track of all that information? Well, those people should try using TweetDeck, a desktop application meant to organise your Twitter activities. If you think regular is Twitter a lot of information…


Creative Commons Case Studies

Chris Castiglione | 09 April 2009, 4:51 pm | 3 comments | tags:

Almost a year ago Creative Commons launched the Case Studies Project with the aim of qualitatively measuring the impact of CC licenses on the world. As of this writing, the project showcases around 500 Case Studies of people using a CC License for photography, music, film, literature and education. Has the project been effective?


Two months in China

Heleen Kerkman | 07 April 2009, 12:52 pm | 1 comment

Two months of my semester in Beijing have now gone by. With everyday feeling like a year of new impressions, it is crazy to see how fast time flew by. Right now I just made my first blogpost, but from now on there will be a weekly update. This…


Mobile Everywhere in Kampala

Ben White | 06 April 2009, 6:49 pm Comments Off | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Kampala – April 6th, 2009

First impressions – I have just arrived in Uganda and can tell you that the presence of the mobile phone is felt and seen everywhere! Just some notes from my trip from the airport. Upon arriving the first thing you notice is the Orange signs welcoming you to the Entebbe airport. They are now the…


Concept: using Twitter as a flow regulator

Bas Bisseling | 03 April 2009, 7:27 pm | 3 comments | tags:

This scenario will illustrate the possibilities of social media like twitter to have a positive and substantial influence on ordinary life. In this case, the “flow regulator tweet” will very efficiently regulate the flow of people waiting in line and therefor Twitter could make waiting obsolete.