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  • Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff
  • Url: http://nochii.nl
  • Posts: 15
  • About the user: Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff is a New Media theorist, Web researcher and Internet entrepreneur. In 1999 he started working as IT professional at the broadband Internet Service Provider @home (a franchise of the ISP and search engine company Excite@Home). After working here for over eight years he decided to pursue a study in New Media at the University of Amsterdam. During this study he has been an active member of the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) research group, working together in a strong team of designers, programmers and theorists to develop new Web-specific methods and tools for doing online research and has written in depth about Internet censorship research, code consciousness and cyber-cosmopolitanism. Next to several stand-alone projects he also started up CYBERLIFE, focusing on building Web-applications, sites and tools, Web hosting and doing Web research. After receiving his Master degree in New Media he continued his contributions to the DMI, has helped organize the Society of the Query conference for the Institute of Network Cultures and has been a thesis supervisor at the University of Applied Sciences (HvA) for Interactive Media. His current company, nochii BV, focusses on utilizing theoretical knowledge and practical experience to help companies get a better understanding about the Web, their network and the space they occupy and its relation to the offline. He holds the strong believe that the Web, both as infrastructure and as concept, can aid in dealing with the increasing complexity of the world (both online as offline) and the relating problematics.

Author Archive

Democracy of the Algorithm

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 03 November 2009, 2:27 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

Working on the Society of the Query conference, I often find myself confronted with an unquestioned believe in what are believed to be the empowering or even emancipating qualities of universally accessible open and free information. Michael Stevenson once referred to this believe as Information Determinism, as if information by itself will solve social and political issues. Realizing…

Blocked in Iran: Follow-up on Armenian Bloggers

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 17 June 2009, 7:06 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Using the data and proxies from the Internet training workshop held at the Caucasus Institute, I did some additional checking and found http://www.havadaran.net/ and http://jomhoriyat.com/ also have been blocked, but accessible from Amsterdam. These URLs are found on the Mir Hossein Mousavi facebook website list in his profile (itself also blocked), and seem to be supporting…

Armenian Bloggers Confirm Top Websites Blocked in Iran

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 17 June 2009, 4:16 pm | 5 comments | tags: , ,

During the Internet training workshop held at the Caucasus Institute, Yerevan, led by Prof. Richard Rogers of the University of Amsterdam, sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Cloob, MySpace, Twitter and the BBC were are confirmed to be blocked in Iran today. They report that:

It appears that the entire sites are inaccessible, according to research carried out at

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Institute of Network Cultures’ Winter Camp

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 08 March 2009, 12:06 pm

This week was Winter Camp week, an event organized by the Institute of Network Cultures (INC). The event brought together different networks that had been around for at least two years, to see what happens at this stage of settling down, when they are no longer fresh and new. Often the activity

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Mark Meadows discussing The Authority Of Robots

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 18 November 2008, 4:17 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

Monday the 24th of November, Mark Meadows will be visiting the University of Amsterdam for a discussion on ‘The Authority Of Robots: How Automated Systems Are Automating Us’. The discussion will be held at the Media Studies building on the Turfdraagsterpad 9 in room 0.13 and will be moderated by Geert Lovink and Edward Shanken.

Metareporter.nl Launched: a First Look…

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 11 November 2008, 12:00 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

How, why, where and when do traditional press write about new media and how can we critically look at those articles? This week a great new blog called metareporter has launched, made just to answer those questions. The blog is the result of a project of the 3rd year New Media students of the University of Amsterdam who…

The Wikipedia Entry: Birth of a Digital Entity

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 10 November 2008, 7:30 pm | 2 comments | tags: , ,

I would like to continue a story I’ve started more then a month ago, my story of the Wikipedia entry. It was not long ago after my beloved Wikipedia entry was removed from the face of the interface that I contemplated some new tactics. While the first time my efforts where focused on a quick-win Wikipedia entry, this…

Hello Twitter! “I have forgotten my umbrella”

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 14 October 2008, 3:35 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , ,

A good chance that while browsing through the endless database of Twitter one could come across a line like this: “I have forgotten my umbrella”…in fact you will. The expression of mundane or day to day activities and thoughts like these is where Twitter was specifically designed for. No “accidental” constraints of characters like SMS, no abbreviated snippets like Google Search or RSS feeds, but the intentional constraining of character input and direct publishing of brief statements, thoughts, morals or otherwise short articulations of textual brainfarts into a grand network of other publications, in other words, the post-modern version of the aphorism…the microblog.

Educating the Educators?

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 05 October 2008, 5:29 pm | tags: ,
Social Networking Sites are increasingly becoming places where people articulate themselves, both aware and unaware sharing personal information to a huge society of internet users. Especially the exposure of young people online has been subject to anxieties and fears by educators, politicians and parents. The fears generally stem from a shift from the private into the public or as Richard

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The Building Blocks of Information Visualization

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 03 October 2008, 12:46 am | tags: , , , ,

Thursday Christian Behrens and Yuri Engelhardt did a workshop on the Universiteit van Amsterdam on the building blocks of information visualization. Christian Behrens created out of his master thesis on designing pattern taxonomy for the field of data visualization and information design, a website which is a pattern browser that lets the user interactively search for pattern components that fit best…