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  • Hans Terpstra
  • Url: http://www.reacorstudios.nl
  • Posts: 7
  • About the user: I'm a 28 year old student who previously got his BA in filmstudies. The reason I chose to do a MA in new media is because I'm currently in the process of setting up a weblabel with the crew members of RSA, our drum 'n bass group. So indeed, in my spare time I produce electronic music and of course another passion of mine besides that is film.

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Dark blog

Hans Terpstra | 29 October 2010, 4:11 pm | 14 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The grin of piracy?As the first half of this semester draws to an end, and we all wrap up our compulsory blogging and prepare for the next hurdles of our MA course, I was surprised at not hearing a single word about the dark side of blogging. And I don’t mean blogging done by people who are insane, racist, paedophiles or anything that…

Out with the bookcase: More living space, even more books!

Hans Terpstra | 16 October 2010, 6:30 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Let me tell you a story about my sister. Isn’t that a good introduction to a blog, share a story with complete strangers online involving private family matters? Though she may not like it, I won’t give her name or anything, and more importantly, I have this feeling that a lot people these days resemble her situation and we’re still…

Forums are dead… long live Twitter? – Music artists in a new age of connectivity

Hans Terpstra | 11 October 2010, 12:38 am | tags: , , , , , , ,

If there’s one element of the Web 1.0 era that seems to have survived the age of social networking of today, it must be forums. But for how long? In the world of music, professional musicians seem to have been hesitant of participating on forums due to the lack of user standards. The abundance of swearing, low level of profession,…

Wikipedia’s ‘Rise of the eediots’?

Hans Terpstra | 04 October 2010, 5:59 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

Call someone an idiot. Expect trouble. Say to someone; ‘You eediot!’ and they just might respond in hysterical laughter, and then call you a purist. You just showed off that you’re into cult cartoons and you found an ally. The phrase comes from Ren Höek, almost twenty years ago together with his fat friend Stimpy some of the biggest troublemakers…

Researching online music networking in the Web 2.0 era: Soundcloud and the demise of MySpace

Hans Terpstra | 28 September 2010, 4:37 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

MySpace passed on?
With the current steady rise of social networking sites, it is by all means an important question to ask how to research these in the field of new media studies. Furthermore, a lot of these sites offer services destined for a particular group of users. Of course when it only concerns interests like geology or animals, one can join…

Book review: “Delete” – by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Hans Terpstra | 19 September 2010, 9:37 pm | tags:

Forgetfulness is more seen as a disadvantage than a virtue, since the human brain tends to forget more than remember. Hence humanity has tried over the course of our existence to try and externalize our memories as far as possible. However, in the digital age where literally anything can be stored with little fear of disappearance of the stored information,…

Behold the bloggers….

Hans Terpstra | 11 September 2010, 2:23 pm | tags:

Well, although this might not be the first blog I ever wrote (my third this is to be exact), it is the first time I’m writing it for the sake of blogging without personal goals. The thing is that I spread music of me and my mates around the internet, and that is our way of communicating our lives to…