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The Limitations of Protocol

October 31, 2011 – 3:11 pm

Internet is often praised for allowing people to speak up and publish freely, rather than opinions are suppressed by higher powers. On the one hand, everyone has the ability to start a blog and publish whatever they like. On the other hand, not all publishing platforms are that free as some think internet is. Every user has to agree with…

By Erik van Mastrigt | Also posted in politics, surveillance | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Blogging and IKEA

September 12, 2010 – 8:31 pm

Knowing I have the opportunity to express my feelings in a blog, makes me feel content. Yes, this may seem as the perfect outlet for my thoughts. They only need some organization. Normally I would buy boxes, at the IKEA, for organization. How wonderful would it be to have your mind organized, clean and labeled. But what’s…

By Mareline Heijman | Also posted in Assignments, Blogs | Tagged , | Comments (0)

McLuhan in Annie Hall

September 11, 2010 – 4:35 pm

In light of this weeks readings, here’s a clip of McLuhan’s short cameo in Annie Hall. Whenever his writing might seem to be a bit too…self-indulgent, it’s good to remember the man had a sense of humor.

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By Onur Yilmaz | Also posted in Assignments | Tagged | Comments (0)

Manuel Castells: Who has the networking power?

October 16, 2009 – 1:02 am

I have placed Web 2.0 and social networking platforms as ‘media objects’ within a framework of Manuel Castells in the context of the network society. What interests me in particular is the tension Castells described, between mass communication and self mass-communication – or between corporate / mainstream power and emerging counter-power / creative audience on the Web.

The two…

By Radmila Radojevic | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Clouded Software or Software in the Clouds

October 15, 2009 – 11:29 pm

The Cloud is all in one; storage of data, software as a service, Web 2.0, and so much more. It is the network of computers that distribute processing power, applications, and large systems among many machines (we already use some cloud-based applications like YouTube or Amazon’s cloud). It is bigger than the sum of its pieces.

By Jan Bajec | Also posted in Assignments, learning from hardware | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Diagrams of the false

October 13, 2009 – 4:00 pm

Personas is a student’s project developed in the MIT Media Lab that shows people how Internet sees them. Using a language processing, computer creates a data profile of your online identity, when entering your name. The program attempts to characterize the person from a massive corpus of data, so most of the times, the personal profile generated not corresponds…

By Susana Zaragoza | Also posted in Electronic writing, Media Theory, information visualization | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

The Potential Power of Twitter’s Search Engine

October 12, 2009 – 8:53 am

Last week, I wrote about Twitter from the perspective of psychologist Barry Schwartz and what he calls the Paradox of Choice. “With so many options to choose from, people find it difficult to choose at all.”  From this perspective I argued against Twitter’s RSS Feed-like interface where more outbound links equals better.   From this approach, I looked at…

By Sarah Moore | Also posted in Assignments | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Review: Beter Internet… Yeah Right!!

September 15, 2008 – 1:58 am

This is a critical review on the book “Beter Internet” which is the fourth in a series of books on the social changes that the internet brings about. This relatively small book contains four interviews on the theme Web 2.0 with Michiel Schwarz, Bernt Hugenholtz, Abram de Swaan and Paul Schnabel.

By Kai Henriquez | Also posted in Assignments, book review, web 2.0 | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Video Vortex: opening session Friday January 18

January 19, 2008 – 12:46 am

Introduction

Yesterday the workshop, this morning the start of the two-day “Video Vortex – responses to YouTube”, an international conference organized by the Institute of Network Cultures at PostCS11, Amsterdam. A good crowd fills the hall at the 11th floor of the ex- Dutch postal service building, all waiting for the first session to kick off. When everyone has…

By Jasper Moes | Also posted in Events, Free Cooperation, VideoVortex, web 2.0 | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (8)

Making the Spinplant Relevant: more from Friedrich Nietzsche

October 9, 2007 – 11:36 pm

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About a week ago there was a small-scale furor on this blog and a Nettime-NL thread surrounding the spinplant. Laura (one of the very creative members of this blog) wrote a Wikipedia entry on the fictional plant, complete with a taxonomic category and a high-resolution photo. The…

By Michael Stevenson | Also posted in Assignments, Friedrich Nietzsche, wikipedia | Tagged , , , | Comments (26)