One of my main interests, besides new media, is the world of intelligence. Spies, long leather jackets, newspaper with spy holes, espionage, cold war, totally my cup of tea. Since the United States Intelligence Community (IC) came up in 2006 with Intellipedia it got my interest right away. Only one problem; you can’t access it.
What is Intellipedia
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Yesterday evening Steve Ballmer visited NOVA College Tour. Steve Ballmer is CEO of Microsoft and is well known of his flamboyant appearances at conferences.
In this interview with 500 students of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam he talks about his concurrents Apple and Google and how he wants to challenge them. About the sanction of…
Sept. 30, 2008. White man about 20 years of age, wearing a blue shirt, yellow vest, safety goggle and a respirator mask. An ordinary road-worker going to work you might think. No you’re wrong, this is the story of a genius robber who used Craiglist to recruit a dozen of people to act as decoys while he robbed an…
My background is not only media studies/theories but I’m also enrolled in the Bachelor program of Law at the University of Amsterdam. This post is about my critique on the interaction between privacy and user on Ning.com.
For class we had to do an assignment about the social networking site (SNS) Ning.com. Register, play and write about it.…
This short article is a response to sarahnats’ article “What is Causing the Decline in Wikipedia Participation”? You can see this short article as a further extension of her argumentation structure and my own experience of adding information to the Wikipedia community.
Sarahnats argues that the rise and power of the editorial management on the site is…
Show off your favorite videos to the world.
Take videos of your dogs, cats, and other pets.
Blog the videos you take with your digital camera or cell phone.
Securely and privately show your videos to your friends and family
around the world. …and much, much more!
(About Us page of YouTube, 2005)
YouTube. One…