Monthly Archives: November 2011

Thanks For Sharing; Gratitude to Social Recommendation and Cool Friends

Autumn Hand | 01 November 2011, 10:18 pm | tags: , , , , ,

“Knowledge sharing and creation is at the heart of innovation in all fields – science, art and business – and innovation is the driving force for wealth creation… Information can be transferred in great torrents, without any understanding or knowledge being generated. Knowledge cannot be transferred; it can only be enacted, through a process of understanding, through which people interpret information and make judgements on the basis of it. … Great tides of information wash over us every day. We do not need more information, we need more understanding.” Charles Leadbeater, Living on Thin Air, 2000.


City Vibes Project – A heartbeat of the city based on its BPM

Andrei Florian | 01 November 2011, 12:23 pm | tags: , ,

We choose our music to best fit our mood, our spirit or our activities. We use it to celebrate our victories, to soothe our pain or to give us energy when we are feeling down. This is why ensuring that we can take our music everywhere with us has become one of the objectives of technological development. Building on these…


Facebook 126 : 10 NING. Lessons learnt

Mzia Kupunia | 01 November 2011, 9:01 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

When creating an online community on NING platform for newcomers in Amsterdam as part of our Masters of Media project, me and my colleagues had very ambitious plans about attracting vast amount of users to join Yoursterdam community. However not everything played out as planned. It turned out to be extremely difficult to tempt people to…


Twisting perspective: Sagmeister

Mario Gesteira | 01 November 2011, 3:22 am | tags: , , ,

Sagmeister was born in1962, he is an Austrian designer. He studied at the University of Applied Art Vienna and the Pratt Institute in New York where he had a full scholarship. He always was passionate for designing covers for music records and has won some important prizes with his cover arts, this also attracted some famous musicians as clients such…


Death of the projectionist and the rise of McCinema

Wouter Timmermans | 01 November 2011, 2:26 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

Since I can remember I’ve been in love with film, I’ve worked in video stores and watched so many films that I can’t even remember how many I’ve watched. Since a year I’ve been working at one of the oldest and smallest art-house cinemas in Amsterdam: Filmtheater de Uitkijk. This tiny cinema at the Prinsengracht is run by…


Collective intelligence: an interview with Pierre Levy

Eelke Hermens | 01 November 2011, 1:20 am | 10 comments | tags: ,

In a previous post I discussed and, hopefully, debunked some common assumptions on the next phase of the World Wide Web, or web 3.0. The general assumption is that in the 2.0 era the user was at the centre, the produser took control and the cult of the amateur was born. The web was being flooded with what seems…