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  • Roman Tol
  • Url: http://www.boekenbuzz.nl
  • Posts: 41
  • About the user: Roman has published articles for Royal Holloway London University, Nai - The Mobile City Conference and the Institute of Network Cultures (INC). Roman produced the educative animation portal: www.holy.nl and the commercially successful reading portal: www.boekenbuzz.nl (for Reader's Digest)

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Illegal software allowed to be used for just cause?

Roman Tol | 30 May 2007, 4:08 pm | 9 comments | tags: , ,

On March 3rd 2005 Joseph Catterson, a British 44 year old man, was arrested in England because it was suspected he possessed child pornography on his computer. Previous to his arrest Catterson had removed all 1500 pornographic photographs and deleted the search history from his computer. Yet, the police were still able to trace the illegal pornography. Consequently last…

OffTopic: The Shining

Roman Tol | 22 March 2007, 3:56 pm | 1 comment | tags: ,

I’ve seen Stanley Kubricks film adaptation of Stephen Kings thriller ‘The Shining’ many times… I even read the book when I was younger… which I didn’t like too much, however, as it turns out I really missed to grasp the essence of the story; I thought it was about insanity caused by isolation… well, just check this clip:shining.jpg

Gambling in Call-Games??? I don’t think so….

Roman Tol | 19 March 2007, 3:21 pm | tags: , , ,

Currently the Dutch television format Call-Games is under investigation with regards to fraudious practices, illegal gambling, and misleading of viewers. In Belgium the same program is used to interact with its public for the same fraudious and misleading reasons; to empty their pockets… however, I’m not so sure about the ‘gamble factor’.

See this video montage:

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Multimedia Learning: a video by Eva Kol & Roman Tol

Roman Tol | 07 March 2007, 12:46 pm | 5 comments | tags: ,

Part 1

Part 2

In this presentation Eva Kol and Roman Tol argue that multimedia presentations, that is presentations with the use of external visual tools, are an excellent instrument for stimulating educative progress.

UvA New Media Research Lectures

Roman Tol | 12 February 2007, 11:44 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

We are pleased to announce:

“Mobile Affect, Mediality and Abu Ghraib”

Richard Grusin

Thursday, 22 February
15-17u.

Turfdraagsterpad 9, Room 0.04

Chinese censorship applied to bloggers

Roman Tol | 11 January 2007, 8:41 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

Today the Chinese state media announced that its government is not satisfied with the growing popularity of blogging in China and wants to force users to register with their genuine name.

This way bloggers can be penalized when they don’t conform to the strict censorship laws.

The Chinese government currently blocks hundreds of websites that contain political sensitive material. Also…

Roman Tol | 03 January 2007, 2:26 am | 4 comments

I recently came across the site Blue Ball Machine. Because I think the artist (Eathbounder) in contrast to his own view did a wonderful job (he calls the image SomethingAwfull), I highly recommend checking it out.

Podcast: Discussing Henry Jenkins’ “Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers”

Roman Tol | 24 December 2006, 6:42 pm | 6 comments | tags: , , , ,

In this Podcast I will be giving a last minute Christmas gift recommendation.

TUNE IN HERE

Discussing Internet politics: Galloway’s Protocol.

Roman Tol | 22 November 2006, 5:14 pm | 2 comments | tags: ,

Galloway’s Protocol addresses how control exists after decentralization, that is, in specific places where decentralization is done and gone and distribution has set in as the dominant network diagram. Galloway suggests protocol is an answer for that.

In part I of the book Galloway states that the protocols that underlie the Internet are not politically neutral. They regulate physical media,…

MyCreativity: Alternative Business and Organisation Models

Roman Tol | 21 November 2006, 5:09 am | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

The topic of discussion at MyCreativity was to propose a new system of copyright that withstands the 21st century, respects the domains of knowledge and creativity, and provides artist with a worthy financial compensation. Joost Smiers has clearly thought about this thoroughly. His lecture was the most detailed and covered some important issues. In this blog post I will translate…