Monthly Archives: October 2011

Interview with Annelie Grob: New Media at the Children’s Book Museum

Maarten Jansen | 31 October 2011, 11:59 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,


In The Hague there is the Dutch Children’s Books Museum (Kinderboekenmuseum). On the 8th of December 2010 was the opening of the new exhibition called Papiria. Within the new exhibition children with the age of three trough thirteen, learn about the way stories are written, what is important for telling a scary story or a love story. They discover…


The end of television as we know it?

Laura Burlacu | 31 October 2011, 9:58 pm | tags: , ,

Will traditional television soon become obsolete? Probably not. But it does seem that corporate giant Google is making yet another move towards achieving this goal. As of last Friday it has been announced that YouTube (video-sharing website owned by Google) will come out with 100 new online TV channels which will be produced by celebrities (such as Jay-Z,…


Interview with Hein Wils: Stedelijk Museum and ARtours

Erik van Mastrigt | 31 October 2011, 9:00 pm | tags: , , ,

In January 2010 the Stedelijk Museum’s ARtours project started. Hein Wils (43) leads this augmented reality project and is also involved in everything that works with mobility. The project will end by March 2012, but he remains employed as mobility expert. In the last years, the Stedelijk Museum has gained much expertise on mobile concepts combined with exhibiting…


iPad for dinner?

Jesse Oyegbesan | 31 October 2011, 9:00 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

The iPad is an all purpose tool. It is ideal to surf on the Internet, play games or other entertainment purposes. However, Apple’s Tablet PC is also capturing more and more restaurants all over the world as an interactive menu. The introduction of interactive menus seems to be a profitable business for gastronomes – but how do customers benefit?


Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – An interview

Jesse Oyegbesan | 31 October 2011, 8:30 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Which role does Search Engine Optimization play nowadays? Different methods, techniques and tools are being used to increase traffic and popularity of websites on the well-known search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. What is behind all this? Which impacts does Social Media have in this field? Julius Parisius, who finished his master studies in industrial engineering and…


Net Worth: Calculate your worth on Facebook

Eelke Hermens | 31 October 2011, 8:00 pm | 1 comment | tags:

My project begun with a question: What is the worth of a single Facebook user? Or: How much money does Facebook make of all the culmination of all interactions on the platform by a single user. To do this, I first needed statistics, lots of statistics. To be more precise, I needed reliable statistics on Facebooks projected total revenue and…


you will _KNOW how_ : interview with Nancy Mauro-Flude

Kendall Grady | 31 October 2011, 7:54 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

I first encountered the work of Tasmanian performance artist and media researcher Nancy Mauro-Flude during The Art of Hacking exhibition opening at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) on September 9, 2011. Mauro-Flude’s Error_in_Time(V.T_3), a poetic coding performance featuring sister0 (Mauro-Flude), ko66 (Sara Platon), and netwurker_Mez (Mez Breeze aka Mary-Anne Breeze), inspired questions on the…


The art of levitation – an interview with Zuzana Hnídková

Laura Burlacu | 31 October 2011, 7:19 pm | tags: , , , ,

Sugar, spice and everything nice. These are the first words that come to mind when going through Zuzana Hnídková’s fashion blog, Salad of my life. The 23 year-old Czech is known for her stunning levitation photos, which have gained her a growing audience of savvy online shoppers, who appreciate compelling photographs, have a strong fashion

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Blackberry: How my smartphone became a ‘dumbphone’

Philip Breek | 31 October 2011, 7:16 pm | tags: , , , , ,

I remember when I had my first mobile phone, a bulky Nokia with no color or internet or any of the fancy features today’s smart phones have. This phone always worked, the battery lasted an incredible amount of time and no matter how many times I dropped it I don’t ever remember having to reset the phone. Now I have…


What makes Warsaw Film Festival a ‘one of a kind’

Urszula Jurgiel | 31 October 2011, 7:06 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

This month 27th Warsaw Film Festival took place. It’s organised since 1985 which makes it the second oldest film festival in Poland after Gdynia Polish Film Festival. This year 370 movies were displayed, 152 filmmakers from 39 countries presented their projects in person and the festival audience amounted to 111 000 people.

WFF is an A category festival which…