Monthly Archives: June 2009

Blocked in Iran: Follow-up on Armenian Bloggers

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 17 June 2009, 7:06 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Using the data and proxies from the Internet training workshop held at the Caucasus Institute, I did some additional checking and found http://www.havadaran.net/ and http://jomhoriyat.com/ also have been blocked, but accessible from Amsterdam. These URLs are found on the Mir Hossein Mousavi facebook website list in his profile (itself also blocked), and seem to be supporting…


Armenian Bloggers Confirm Top Websites Blocked in Iran

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 17 June 2009, 4:16 pm | 5 comments | tags: , ,

During the Internet training workshop held at the Caucasus Institute, Yerevan, led by Prof. Richard Rogers of the University of Amsterdam, sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Cloob, MySpace, Twitter and the BBC were are confirmed to be blocked in Iran today. They report that:

It appears that the entire sites are inaccessible, according to research carried out at

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Anatomical Analytics: up-to-date information on the human condition

Chris Castiglione | 15 June 2009, 11:09 pm | tags: , , ,

Anatomical Analytics is a personal report detailing up-to-date information about an individual’s body condition. The project details a hypothetical design for an “innovative technology” that could exist in the year 2020. Anatomical Analytics was awarded 3rd prize in the UC Santa Barbara’s Bluesky Innovation Competition: Social Computing in 2020.


WEX Machine – W139

Erik Borra | 06 June 2009, 2:29 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The WEX Machine, The W139 EXtender, is a mirroring portal extending the W to the WebWebWeb. It is a new website and permanent installation for W139, an Amsterdam-based exhibition and production space for contemporary art, by Roel Wouters and Erik Borra.

On Friday June 12 the new W139 website will be launched and demonstrated. On a spot-lit…


The Monitor’s Systems Connectivity

Ali Balunywa | 04 June 2009, 9:49 am | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Gladys Buteraba works at the Monitor as the Helpdesk Administrator. The Monitor is Uganda’s other second daily newspaper (www.monitor.co.ug). It is an independent daily founded by a group of journalists. Currently, it is owned by East Africa’s biggest media house, The Nation Group of Companies that publishes the biggest circulating newspaper in East Africa. It also owns radios and…