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Second Life as ‘YASNS’

Second Life as ‘YASNS’

Danah Boyd is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her research focuses on how American youth use networked publics...
By Maggie Badermadjian on 10/05/08 2
Reassembling Social Networks

Reassembling Social Networks

Currently the massive public adoption of social software has changed our habitat and has created shifts in our behaviour. While we know how to behave in unmediated publics (for example we know what is expected from us when we...
By Inge Ploum on 10/05/08 1

Cybernetics in the Lowlands

Although the place to be for technological dreams is, or was, Silicon Valley in the United States, the Lowlands have their own valley: Eindhoven. In the seventies and the eighties a museum called the Evoluon exposed modern technology that...
By Arno de Natris on 10/04/08 Comments Off on Cybernetics in the Lowlands

Social Networking Sites and the Missing Half

Dana Boyd describes “social networking sites” as “web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3)...
By Ben White on 10/04/08 2

Is Couchsurfing.com an Actual SNS?

In her research paper "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship", Danah Boyd makes explicit what the features of a social network are and what their purpose is. I decided to check if these features are present in the...
By Dorris de Heij on 10/04/08 2

The Building Blocks of Information Visualization

Thursday Christian Behrens and Yuri Engelhardt did a workshop on the Universiteit van Amsterdam on the building blocks of information visualization. Christian Behrens created out of his master thesis on designing pattern taxonomy for the field of data visualization and information design,...
By Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff on 10/03/08 Comments Off on The Building Blocks of Information Visualization

Hyves: Social Network Site?

Social networksite Hyves is declared ‘website of the year’ by internet users in The Netherlands. About fifty percent of the Dutch own a profile on this fast growing social network site. But what is Hyves and how to study...
By Arno de Natris on 10/02/08 131
Superpowerpointcinema

Superpowerpointcinema

Conference SuperPowerPointCinema a project by Re;visie, All Media ism. Het Nederlands Film Festival keynote speakers Bruce Sterling (science fiction writer, blogger) Eboman (DJ, kunstenaar) Anne Helmond (Docent UvA & Blogger) Moderator: Koert van Mensvoort Koert van Mensvoort gives the...
By Tjerk Timan on 10/01/08 6
Wikipedia’s Datasource Google

Wikipedia’s Datasource Google

Today Erinc Salor gave an excellent presentation called Redefining Encyclopaedia’s, about his research on Britannica, the history of encyclopaedia’s and its relation to Wikipedia. He feels there is too much speculation going on at the current moment. Most critical post and...
By Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff on 09/29/08 3

PICNIC ’08 – Itay Talgam Interview

This is an excerpt of an interview with Israeli conductor Itay Talgam done by Markus Huendgen during Picnic ‘08. Talgam illustrates how conducting an orchestra can be a metaphor for the collaboration of people in general.
By marie-anne soyez on 09/29/08 4

Patrick Lichty’s manifesto, The 50-Year Computer

The Slow Computer Movement is born:
I have a proposition to make – when I am ready for my first mind/body transplant in 2058, at age 95, I want to be using the same computer I am today.
By Michael Stevenson on 09/29/08 Comments Off on Patrick Lichty’s manifesto, The 50-Year Computer
Google Meets Mark

Google Meets Mark

Mark Kamau speaking on behalf of Nairobits (project initiated by Butterfly Works)

The most rewarding speech during the 'Surprising Africa' special at PICNIC came (according...

By Wouter Dijkstra on 09/29/08 Comments Off on Google Meets Mark

MapTheGap 3rd place!

The Masters of Media blog would like to congratulate Laura van der Vlies and Edial Dekker for their 3rd place at the PICNIC’08 Vodafone Mobile Clicks competition and the 10.000 euros in price money. After a hard selection process...
By Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff on 09/29/08 1

PICNIC 08 – Locative Lab on Education

What: Locative Lab on Education and GPS-based programme 7scenes Organised by: Waag Society When: 24 Sept 08 14:00 - 18:00 Where: PICNIC Club (Gashouder)
By Sarah van der Land on 09/29/08 Comments Off on PICNIC 08 – Locative Lab on Education

Picnic 2008 report: Surprising Africa

Citizen journalism in Africa ‘Bring the world to Africa and bring Africa to the world.’ (Gisel Hiscock, talking at Surprising Africa) Hiscock, one of speakers at the Surprising Africa conference, held a lecture about Google’s interest in giving information-access...
By Guido van Diepen on 09/29/08 2
Mediamatic at PICNIC 08

Mediamatic at PICNIC 08

Mediamatic is a project partner of PICNIC. Excellent coders, designers and physical computers participate in this heavy duty camp to explore recent technologies, RFID, interaction design and social processes. The goal of the Camp is to realize multiple interactive...
By Cornelia Scripca on 09/29/08 6

PICNIC 08 – Outside of the Lectures and the Dome, a Critical Note

Inside the E-art dome were some interesting lectures too and ways of art meeting new technologies. Too bad we could not see all in there but outside were also activities we joined in after the lecture on nature versus...
By Hannah Biemold on 09/28/08 Comments Off on PICNIC 08 – Outside of the Lectures and the Dome, a Critical Note

Come Have a Corporate PICNIC!

Collaboration...If there's one word I would suggest to compress PICNIC'08 into, this would be it. To be perfectly honest, the whole concept has gotten a bit hollow after three days of this greenly, grassy, commy conference. A small impression...
By Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff on 09/28/08 1
PICNIC 08 – Nike’s Michael Tchao and “Connecting Shoes”

PICNIC 08 – Nike’s Michael Tchao and “Connecting Shoes”

Michael Tchao is the General Manager of Nike Techlab, a sports technology innovation group within Nike. Today at Picnic he presented Nike+ to show a few examples of how social and commercial networks interact. You may have heard of...
By Chris Castiglione on 09/28/08 3

Little Big Planet Not So Web 2.0?

During the First Look event, held last saturday in Amsterdam, Sony Computer Entertainment’s Bernard Groeneveld presented Little Big Planet, already presented in this post. Sony presented this “Make-your-own”-game as the gaming industry’s answer to Web 2.0 applications like Youtube.
By Stefan Keerssemeeckers on 09/28/08 2
PICNIC 08 – De Variegata Setup

PICNIC 08 – De Variegata Setup

When I was walking through the Picnic event area where the only free access tent (the E-Art Dome) was situated, there was nothing going there yet. So I walked through this big white tent and saw, between all the...
By Dorris de Heij on 09/28/08 Comments Off on PICNIC 08 – De Variegata Setup
Why is Africa Surprising You? Surprising Africa @ Picnic ’08

Why is Africa Surprising You? Surprising Africa @ Picnic ’08

Picnic is Amsterdam’s new media event of the year. This is one of the few times when people come together to discuss developments, innovations and changes in the industry on this scale. As a result, this is also one...
By Ben White on 09/28/08 2

Wikipedia’s Criterion: Google

Creating a hoax on Wikipedia isn’t that difficult. Just write it down and save it. But it won’t take long before the Wiki-officials will delete it. This afternoon, I created a fake ‘legend’ and wrote a Wiki about it. Four hours...
By Arno de Natris on 09/27/08 7
Pushing the HOT100 Button @ PICNIC

Pushing the HOT100 Button @ PICNIC

In 2007 the Virtueel Platform started the HOT100. The HOT100 is a group of the most promising and successful new media talents in the Netherlands. It gives...
By Inge Ploum on 09/27/08 4