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  • Joris Pekel
  • Url: http://georgebrine.wordpress.com
  • Posts: 12
  • About the user: I’m a MA. New Media student at the University of Amsterdam. In november 2009 I graduated as a bachelor theater, film and televisionstudies at the University of Utrecht. After that I started an internship at Kennisland where I worked on a project called Images for the Future. My main interests go to: Social media and how they can or can’t be useful, online copyright, Creative Commons and privacy issues. Other than that I’m an improv-theater actor and music lover (check out my famous Dutch eclectic-farmerband “Skitterend Mooi!”)

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Book Review: Bloghelden

Joris Pekel | 20 September 2010, 3:15 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

The Dutch blogosphere took off only fifteen years ago, but has experienced more than one will do in an entire lifetime. Frank Meeuwsen, who was there when the first Dutch blogs were born, decided this was the right time to look back on its history and write down the first ten years in a book.

He first of all…

Nasty Old People and a CC Licence

Joris Pekel | 09 September 2010, 10:24 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

Sweden is famous for lots of reasons. Like for their food, their furniture and their women. They are also known as the biggest pirates in the world. Not on the open sea, but online. The Swedish Piratebay is one of the most used and one of the most attacked websites in the world. They were also…