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  • Laura van der Vlies
  • Url: http://www.lauravdv.nl
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  • About the user: Laura van der Vlies is currently a New Media master student at the University of Amsterdam. After finishing the New Media bachelor program and finishing the propedeuse year CMD at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, this is the year to finally really learn the inside of new media today. This summer I participated in the Digital Methods Initiative. This really made me learn to use knowledge in a different way. With interests in the topic of journalism on the web and certain forms of censorship I hope to make valuable contributions to this blog.

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Tomas Rawlings and Ana Kronschnabl @ Video Vortex

Tomas Rawlings & Ana Kronschnabl
The main question that was posed in this lecture was ‘Why is this conferention about Youtube, and not one of the other websites that allow people to watch video’s online?’ Because Youtube isn’t the first website that offers people to use videos and images in this manner. Take for instance plugincinema.com of pop.com. Been there, done that?

De kennis van Wikipedia

Hoe makkelijk is het om berichten op de Nederlandse variant van Wikipedia te plaatsen? Wie bekijkt de nieuw aangemaakte pagina’s? Wat is waarheid volgens Wikipedia? Met deze vragen in het achterhoofd heb ik op woensdag 26 september een pagina over de Spinplant of Bossius Rodricus aangemaakt. Voor de aandachtige lezer, nee, deze plantensoort bestaat niet. Het idee hier achter was…

Come out & play 2007

28 & 29 september were two days full of ‘big urban games’. Together with the Picnic festival several games from all over the world were played on the Westergasterrein and other places in the city of Amsterdam. Luckily I was there for two whole days and had my share in all the fun. Two games definately stood out for me…

Blogvergelijking [in het nederlands]

Juist omdat er zoveel verschillende soorten blogs zijn, met ook verschillende onderwerpen, vormen en doelen, hier een vergelijking tussen 5 blogs. [in het nederlands geschreven omdat het [bijna]alleen maar Nederlandse blogs zijn. ] De achterliggende vraag hierbij is of het onderwerp van een blog verschil maakt in de keuze van uiterlijk en indeling. Er is enkel gekeken naar de visuele…

The Dark Side of Web 2.0

Andrew Keen wrote the in 2007 published book ‘The cult of the Amateur’. Keen, who founded audiocafe.com a rough ten years ago, went from digital pioneer to digital skeptic. Living in Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble and being a ‘Friend of O’Reilly’ [Foo for intimae] brought him back into the real world. In the first chapter of his book…