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  • Pim van Bree
  • Url: http://pimvanbree.com
  • Posts: 8
  • About the user: As a student of the MA New Media my emphasis is on cultural implications. Together with my previous education in online marketing and with a job as web developer and programmer I try to focus on three sides of New Media: the commercial application, cultural and critical analysis, and on the actual development and programming of online implementation. I have a BA in Media Management with the specialization Online Marketing. I completed the BA with an internship and one year work experience at digital marketing agency Tribal DDB as a strategist. Regardles, I am also a sucker for television series and film. Visit pimvanbree.com (en) or pimvanbree.nl (nl) to get in touch and get an overview of my activities on the web, or go directly to ghanso.com to view my blog.

Author Archive

The Internet Is Taking My Pictures

Pim van Bree | 06 June 2011, 3:57 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Unlike Google Maps, Russia’s Yandex Карты is much more tourist friendly in that it does not blur your face away when you have been caught on camera! Yandex does not seem to uphold an evenly strict privacy policy as Google is imposed to do. A big help, as it assists me in taking touristic…

Online Piracy, The Ancient Art Of Digital Publishing

Pim van Bree | 31 October 2010, 11:43 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , ,

Digital piracy is a common aspect on the web, and Internet users are sometimes or even often part of it because an act of piracy is easily done. There are several sharing activities where piracy is involved such as peer-to-peer sharing, usenet groups, and emailing your favourite song to a friend. These acts of data sharing are mostly low-level and…

Puzzling Infinity

Pim van Bree | 31 October 2010, 11:40 pm | tags: , , ,

In memory of this month deceased Benoît Mandelbrot – mathematician, godfather of fractals and the most well-known fractal the Mandelbrot set – I would like to pay respects to the Mandelbrot, in 3D! The phenomenon of fractals itself is already mind bending, a geometric shape with unlimited detail and recursion as in the Droste effect. But in 3D the…

The Threefold Digital Divide

Pim van Bree | 20 October 2010, 11:52 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

The Digital Divide
The common gap in internet accessibility is mainly based on socioeconomic status, determined by skills and resources. The digital divide has often emerged along the familiar fault lines of social inequality: class, ethnicity, gender, age, and geographic location. Therefore, people from all socioeconomic backgrounds have to be taught or familiarize the skills needed to effectuate the potential…

You Are All Missing Out On Elementary Stuff People

Pim van Bree | 08 October 2010, 4:44 pm | tags: ,

6.060.000 results reports Google on the query “back door”. Another common two word object such as “kitchen table” has 4.470.000 results. I would say a back door is pretty elementary, and pretty much everyone uses it in their daily routine, it is therefore quite horrific to find out that “back door” did not have its own wiki page! Therefore I…

Californian Ideology 2.0, A First Farewell

Pim van Bree | 05 October 2010, 3:59 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

Where the internet and greater new technologies before have military origin, nowadays technologies and implementation are developed and financed by private companies and organizations. Even the backbone of the internet has become privatized, as part of its protocol, DNS, is now largely accessed by going through private parties such as Verisign, the administer of .com and .net TLDs.…

Book Review: “What You See Is What You Feel” by Koert van Mensvoort

Pim van Bree | 20 September 2010, 3:33 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

A fellow MoM’er already wrote a good review on the PhD thesis What You See Is What You Feel by Koert van Mensvoort. Read the MoM review here and download the full book here. I would like to give an extension to this review with my own thoughts.

Although the thesis is done at the Technical University…

Svetlana wants to meet

Pim van Bree | 15 September 2010, 8:41 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

This summer I was sitting with a friend on a nice terrace in the city center of L’viv, Urkraine (I marked it on Google Maps, for your interest). The terrace was overlooking the city’s promenade where the local folk – i.e. the well-known Ukrainian girls – were gallivanting, hoping to catch an eye, or for others to get…