Recently Second Life has been suffering from “destructive, malicious activity”. Read the blogpost about it here at the Second Life blog: Security and Second Life. If they want to make a model of the real world, there should be tough Scarfaces and criminals right? Your world, your imagination right? Or maybe not?
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My presentation on Marshall McLuhan’s The Galaxy Reconfigured from his 1962 book The Gutenberg Galaxy. As an introduction, here is a quote from a great interview with him from Playboy Magazine in 1969. The whole interview can be found here: www.digitallantern.net/mcluhan/mcluhanplayboy.htm
PLAYBOY: You seem to be contending that practically every aspect of modern life is a direct
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In the Masters of Media class we’ve been trying out Writely.com for a couple of assignments in the past weeks. Not so long ago the online word processor was acquired by Google. The idea is very promising: “Share documents instantly & collaborate in realtime.” So we decided to take it for a test-drive, but…
We The Media (2004) is the book that launched Dan Gillmor’s career as an authority on journalism and blogging. In his first book Gillmor, once a former professional musician, lets us take a peek at the past, present and future of the two.
Starting off Gillmor sets the tone by reminding us of the roots of blogging. He traces it…
Not many people can say they have been a space tourist, and blogged their experiences at the same time. In the previous weeks the news has been full of Anousheh Ansari, the first female space tourist who spent 20 million dollars on a trip to space. If you want to know how the space travel was as a personal…
Wikipedia as band promotion? Maybe, it sure makes your band better searchable on the internet. I added an entry to the Dutch Wikipedia about the band I play in, check out the entry at Wikipedia NL.
Of course Wikipedia is no Myspace in terms of bandpromotion and marketing, but an addition of your band with pure factual information…
One of the many upcoming Web 2.0 applications is Remember the Milk (RtM), an online personal agenda with the very appealing option to add the locations of your appointments to the map. And yes… it is Beta.
Since this coming weekend is going to be very busy, I decided to enter all my weekend appointments in RtM to…
An important aspect of bandpromotion in the musicscene, if the not the most important, is networking. Searching contacts, maintaining them, find more contacts, maintain again, etcetera. Together with some other bands I worked on the online promotion for the back2school event in Arnheim, Netherlands. In this case study I will elaborate Myspace as an addition to networking in the…
Powerpoint for a presentation on Ivan Sutherland’s “Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System” (Powerpoint in Dutch)
A powerpoint presentation on the cooperate use of social software/Web2.0 for the promotion of events. Think about the usage of blogs/Myspace for the promotion of events. With quotes by Howard Rheingold (Free cooperation) and Geert Lovink (Zero Comments). (Powerpoint partly in Dutch)
Download: Powerpoint Cooperatie Evenement Promotie
