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Contesting our Cultural Heritage

Albert Cornelissen | 30 October 2009, 3:47 pm | tags: , , ,

There has always been fear towards new technologies that create new ways of recording and sharing cultural products. The videotape made owners of these products extremely nervous, because it allowed viewers stay at home to record and share what was on the television. This fight has been replayed by users and producers ever since mechanical reproduction made it possible to…

GPS moving beyond locating

Albert Cornelissen | 21 October 2009, 5:24 pm | tags: ,

GPS in daily life is mostly used for connecting to the internet and navigating through an area. The focus of these types of GPS is giving you a precise location or finding a precise location. What would happen if GPS was used for different purposes?

The application TXXI for the iPhone, launched this year in the Netherlands, hopes…

Twitter a New Direction for Social Media

Albert Cornelissen | 10 October 2009, 10:01 am | tags: , ,

 Twitter has grown exponentially the last two years and is most apparent in the use of the service by celebrities. No other internet application can count on the massive participation of public figures. Ashton Kutcher, Al Gore, Britney Spears, Stephen Fry and even Dutch politicians use the text messaging application. Why the hell the interest?

Well, the general appeal…

Facebook THE example of data portability

Albert Cornelissen | 01 October 2009, 4:08 pm | tags: , , ,

Every now and then privacy issues of Facebook are addressed when a new feature, like News Feeds, show the accessibility of information. This discussion deserves to be in the limelight even when the media are not creating a hype over privacy. An examination of Facebook shows that users consciously and unconsciously share their information, which goes further than,…

Wikipedia = reliable

Albert Cornelissen | 24 September 2009, 9:10 am | tags: , , ,

A lof of comments on the reliability of Wikipedia are getting old. These questions do not really concern Wikipedia, but the question: What is a usable source of information? Wikipedia is off course a unique example, but is it any different than other sources of information?

Academic writings, for example, get reviewed at three points. First it is…

Review of: When Code Meets Place: Collaboration and Innovation at WiFi Hotspots

Albert Cornelissen | 14 September 2009, 12:02 am | tags: , , ,

Someone wakes up from a night’s sleep. After having breakfast he or she kisses the kids goodbye and takes the long stairs down to the street. The Coffee Company is only a two minute walk, so a freshly made cup of coffee is not far away. Person X arrives at Coffee Company, orders, positions a laptop on the table,…