The creation of a truly global orchestra, bringing together people from around the world and enableing, using new media, creative and enthusiastic cooperation of recognized musicians and emerging talents. This is YouTube Symphony Orchestra.
YouTube Symphony Orchestra is a project in which, via You Tube, 101 musicians from 33 countries were selected. The contestants were required to record themselves…
In the Western world, cyber cafes are nearing the point of total extinction, but less protected as say, pandas. However, many seem to find a new lease on life in the various developing – soon to take over Total World Domination – countries, where they provide the poor with a marvelous opportunity to surf the infinite waves of the Free…
We as master students New Media at the UvA rely on many different sources on the web for information regarding our course and objects of study. Our main idea for the MoMUvA app was to bring together these channels, but we had other ideas to improve communication between students as well. This is a report on how we created the MoMUvA app.
I have decided to make an intervirew with Magdalena Górnicka (FB, Twitter): social media manager at Publicon – a well know PR Agency in Wroclaw, the only Polish ‘Obamalogist’, co-organizer of Polish editions of Social Media Day conference. She openly admits to being a Facebook addict – spending most of her time – both at work…
As you may have realised, the title of this blog post is a parody of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb. If you’ve seen the film, you know it involves bypassing a networked system, perceived to be perfectly designed, for catastrophic (and hilarious) results. It highlights the use and…
How do we find happiness? I cannot answer that question for you, but it is relevant to everybody. The state of happiness was deemed so important by the Founding Fathers of the United States that they added it to the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed…
‘Virtually You‘ is the book I reviewed some time back. It talks about the dangerous effects life online can have on our personalities and lives. I managed to get hold of the author of the book, Elias Aboujaoude MD, for a quick email interview. I approached him with the thought that perhaps he could offer some thinking points for…
Early May 2011, Dutch telecom provider KPN announced her plans to block certain mobile Internet services like Voice over IP, in order to offer these services for an additional fee. One of the reasons for these measures is the decline of profit generated from regular text messaging and phone calls because of their online alternatives (Bits Of Freedom). After…
I received an e-mail in my inbox. Mark Shepard was coming to The Hague for a lecture on the sentient city. It was part of a lecture series called The Knight’s Move, which aims on cutting across disciplines and rethinking the city. Even though I was not really familiar with Shepard (besides a book review on this very blog),…
What makes a good review online?
Some observations from the paper “Being Heard in Review Communities: Communication Tactics and Review Prominence”.