Tag Archives: blogosphere

E = Media Combinations2: The survival of the fittest

Every old medium was once new. And when something gets old we’ve got to search for a way to give it its old glance back. The printed book was once a new medium. It was revolutionary, groundbreaking. But today the book is just a commodity. It is still used very often, but for how long? Terry Flew wrote in his

Book Review: Bloghelden

The Dutch blogosphere took off only fifteen years ago, but has experienced more than one will do in an entire lifetime. Frank Meeuwsen, who was there when the first Dutch blogs were born, decided this was the right time to look back on its history and write down the first ten years in a book.

He first of all…

This is not a book

A fair part of the Internet activity is spend by surfing and reading the private findings of others about the cool stuff in live. Random strangers with a talent of writing tell us by blogging little stories of their daily lives what to watch, read and share online. In his book Zero Comments Geert Lovink writes among other…

Apple bombs blogosphere with an airstrike

For the next few days Apple will rule the blogosphere and all of that had to do with the keynote presentation Steve Jobs gave at the MacWorld 2008 conference. It started yesterday and will probably continue throughout the rest of this week with massive coverage on various blogs and websites. This post looks at the needless struggle to acquire the same information seconds before the other blogs do.

Swarm of Angels & Four Eyed Monsters

images.jpeg Filmmakers are in general quite conservative. Their love for high quality image, 16 mm, 35 mm, big screenings and Hollywood attraction is usually overshadowing the curiosity for developments in the area of new media. This is a shame, especially because new media techniques involve a whole new way of filmmaking, avoiding top-down approach of production and enhances freedom of…

blog.google.com: Internet finally subsumed by Blogs

It is well known that Google, which depends on every link it indexes to recommend search results, has a certain ‘vulnerability’ that blogs expose. Bloggers are professional-amateur-pointers. They publish frequently, they link a lot, and then they syndicate others’ links. Affectionately put, they give link love. But does Google love them back? (Note the URL in the screenshot below)

Blogvergelijking [in het nederlands]

Juist omdat er zoveel verschillende soorten blogs zijn, met ook verschillende onderwerpen, vormen en doelen, hier een vergelijking tussen 5 blogs. [in het nederlands geschreven omdat het [bijna]alleen maar Nederlandse blogs zijn. ] De achterliggende vraag hierbij is of het onderwerp van een blog verschil maakt in de keuze van uiterlijk en indeling. Er is enkel gekeken naar de visuele…

Review: Blog! How the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture – David Kline and Dan Burstein

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Blog!

David Kline and Dan Burstein points out that the blogosphere will transform many areas of politics, business, media and culture. In their book ‘Blog! How the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture’ they have…

Review: Blogosphere The New Political Arena by Michael Keren

blogosphereBlogosphere can be seen as a new and important element of the new public sphere. On a blog people are able to not only comment on public affairs or read about what they find interesting. On a blog they actually have the possibility to create and manipulate their own, either real or fictive, identity and share it with the world.…

We the Media – Dan Gilmor

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In his book ‘We the Media: Grassroots journalism by the People’, Dan Gilmor describes the development in the so called grassroots journalism. Gilmors goal is:

“[…]to persuade you that the collision of journalism and technology is having major consequences for three constituencies: journalists, newsmakers, and the audience.”

The book can roughly be divided into three parts. First Gilmor gives…