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  • Floor Broer van Dijk
  • Url: http://phlloo.tumblr.com/
  • Posts: 7
  • About the user: I am a student of the New Media Master. Before this, I did the Television Bachelor at Media & Culture, University of Amsterdam. I also completed the first year of Sport, Management and Organisation. Now I am working as editor at Blue Circle, a production company which makes Television shows.

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Save trees, read online?

Floor Broer van Dijk | 13 October 2010, 5:47 pm | tags: , , , ,

Now a days you can do anything online. You can watch television or video’s online, games, you can play them online. You even can have a conversation online through e-mail or chat programs. A new online trend is e-publishing. Instead of taking ten books with you on vacation, you can buy an e-reader, put a hundred books on the little machine and you doesn’t have to sweat one’s guts out. So you can read books in a digital version, but also articles and news papers.

Becoming an Inkscape expert

Floor Broer van Dijk | 11 October 2010, 5:19 pm | tags: , , ,

A few weeks ago, during the practical class of John Haltiwanger, he asked us what we wanted to learn on the computer. There were several people who wanted to learn how to Photoshop. Since John didn’t know how to Photoshop, he purposed to us another comparable program, Inkscape. Was it ok for…

While I see, I microblog

Floor Broer van Dijk | 10 October 2010, 9:44 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Microblogging, everyone is doing it, ‘normal’ people like us and ‘very important’ people like politicians, the Dutch Queen and celebrities. We share with the world what we are doing at the moment, or what is on our minds. According to Akshay Java, Tim Finin, Xiaodan Song, & Belle Tseng in their article on why…

‘Indische duinen’, my Wikipedia adventure

Floor Broer van Dijk | 03 October 2010, 8:59 am | tags: , ,

Wikipedia is such a huge encyclopedia, every topic I came up with, it already existed on Wikipedia. I saw there wasn’t a topic yet about the soccer club FC Abcoude so when I wanted to start that, this message appeared:

(Source: Wikipedia.nl)

What should I do, write about it nevertheless? I decided to do that…

Hyves, THE information source for companies

Floor Broer van Dijk | 26 September 2010, 4:57 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

How would I do research in web 2.0 and Social Network Sites? First I have to make clear for myself what web 2.0 exactly is. According to Tim O’Reilly, one of the founders of web 2.0, web 2.0 existed after the dot.com crash in 2001. In the…

Blog theory by Jodi Dean reviewed

Floor Broer van Dijk | 19 September 2010, 9:40 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Jodi Dean is professor of political science at Hobart an William Smith Colleges. She focus on the contemporary space or possibility of politics. Dean is a blogger herself and in her book she makes some points clear by giving examples of her own blog experiences.

My infotainment thesis

Floor Broer van Dijk | 09 September 2010, 9:05 pm | tags: , , , , ,

I chose the New Media master for several reasons.

1. I want to expand my view and expertise from Television to New Media.

2. New Media is the future.

3. I’m interested in the way television is more and more interactive.

I want to combine the knowledge I’ve  gained during my bachelor (television) and my master (new media) in my work…