Werner Vogels: CTO amazon
The future of business creation
Yesterday at 16.15, the last lecture of a three day picnic was given. Dr.Werner Vogels, now CTO of Amazon.com, took the mic and started talking on how to start a profitable business with the help of new online services provided by companies like the one he works for, amazon.…
This is the first post in a series where the Masters will blog some lectures given at the Picnic 08 conference which is held the next three days at the Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam.
PROblogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income[REVIEW]
INTRODUCION
For some time now I’ve been interested in the eBook phenomenon for a couple of reasons: the business model that lies beneath it (how to make money by selling information…internet marketing is a fascinating hobby), and the information that is being shared by the rapidly growing number…
Introduction
Yesterday the workshop, this morning the start of the two-day “Video Vortex – responses to YouTube”, an international conference organized by the Institute of Network Cultures at PostCS11, Amsterdam. A good crowd fills the hall at the 11th floor of the ex- Dutch postal service building, all waiting for the first session to kick off. When everyone has…
America’s housing market is having troubles, oil is getting ridiculously pricy, and good american patriots would rather have euros than their beloved greenback. The impending doom of the internet business market, just like in 2000, is making a buzz on blogs and bookmarking sites. To contribute to this doom scenario, let’s blog about this (song. I just did.)
Update:…
Ballet & Discipline have always been inseparable, but this link now gets a new meaning.
PANOPTICON is an interdisciplinary performance for three dancers, a musician and video, inspired by Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: the birth of the prison. “Working with mechanisms of power, PANOPTICON uses the theatre to show the different layers of ‘the game of power’, between…
THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
University of Ulster:
Chair: René Glas
Thursday, November 16, 2006
16:00 – 18:00
P.C. Hoofthuis, room 104
Spuistraat 134
Drinks following the lecture
at Ovidius
We’ve talked about Participatory Culture in class with Richard Rogers. To get some idea of what this is, here’s some recommended reading:
In addition to Alexander R. Galloway – Protocol, chapter I: Physical Media, here’s a nice animation: