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Scrapebox: a new perspective on an old SEO tool

Scrapebox is a versatile SEO tool but it’s mainly known for its comment spamming functions. The purpose of this article is to show that this software offers many interesting features that could be applied to academic and market reasearch....

By Andrea Fiorentini on 10/12/13 2

Masters of Media: The Animation

I ran into this animation and couldn’t resist the temptation to share it here. It’s an animated documentary called ‘The Masters of the Media‘. It analyses monopolization in the Media Industry.

By Minke Kampman on 08/19/11 Comments Off

Aphoristic message (overload?) by a CMC world

Communication is as old as humans (or humanoids) itself, from a grunt, a shout to a simple gesture – we have always had the ability to convey messages to others around us – whether we’re correctly understood is a...

By Sander Leegwater on 10/08/09 Comments Off

Twitter used to be my Boyfriend

There is so much going on, on Twitter that it is hard to cover it all after using it for a year. Really, nobody knows the future of Twitter. Even the people who created it have no idea where...

By Hannah Biemold on 09/12/09 1

The art of abusing the possibilities of collaboration

A few days ago I read a remarkable story in the paper about the readers of an infamous and rebelious website/blog called Geenstijl that was able to mess with the election of the best Dutch slogan ever that was...

By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 10/15/07 1

Mauri!

Mauri is “hello!” in I-Kiribati. Why are you telling me this? You probably ask yourself. Well, let me explain… I was just checking out our statistics and the first three countries on the “visitors per country list”were no surprise:...

By Jeff van Schie on 10/19/06 6