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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.

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Wikipedia’s Datasource Google

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 29 September 2008, 8:55 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , ,
Today Erinc Salor gave an excellent presentation called Redefining Encyclopaedia’s, about his research on Britannica, the history of encyclopaedia’s and its relation to Wikipedia. He feels there is too much speculation going on at the current moment. Most critical post and articles are based on assumption and not actual reseach or experience. He

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MapTheGap 3rd place!

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 29 September 2008, 11:28 am | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

The Masters of Media blog would like to congratulate Laura van der Vlies and Edial Dekker for their 3rd place at the PICNIC’08 Vodafone Mobile Clicks competition and the 10.000 euros in price money. After a hard selection process of 4 phases and more then 50 initial entries, this friday…

Come Have a Corporate PICNIC!

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 28 September 2008, 8:29 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

Collaboration…If there’s one word I would suggest to compress PICNIC’08 into, this would be it. To be perfectly honest, the whole concept has gotten a bit hollow after three days of this greenly, grassy, commy conference. A small impression of my corporate PICNIC experience…

‘FuckFlickr’ by the ‘Free Art and Technology Lab’

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 22 September 2008, 1:03 am | 1 comment | tags:

 

An interesting application on the web, made as an alternative to Flickr, Yahoo’s web 2.0 app for sharing images on the web is FuckFlickr. According to its own description its ‘open-source image gallery software that won’t narc you out. We created it as an alternative to hosting your photos on…

Book Review: “Software Studies: a Lexicon”

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 15 September 2008, 11:06 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

In June this year MIT Press released ‘Software Studies: a lexicon’, edited by Matthew Fuller and consisting of 38 contributors (couting by texts) ranging from ‘computer scientists, artists, designers, cultural theorists, programmers, and others from a range of disciplines each take on a key topic in the understanding of software and the work that surrounds it’.

The book starts of…