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O’Reilly at PICNIC 2012: Give-and-Take on the Internet

SHARING CULTURE VERSUS CAPITALISM Since its beginning the internet has been designed as a sharing platform for information exchange without the regular borders of time and space. Free from all the constraints of the offline world information could...

By Richard Zimerman on 10/05/12 1

Video art-a different view of new media

Most of you will be probably familiar with the term of video art, the new emerging movement of art that fascinates people of different background, age and interests worldwide. However, a brief-though concise definition,as given in Wikipedia is...

By Eva Anagnostaki on 09/08/12 2

Thanks For Sharing; Gratitude to Social Recommendation and Cool Friends

“Knowledge sharing and creation is at the heart of innovation in all fields – science, art and business – and innovation is the driving force for wealth creation... Information can be transferred in great torrents, without any understanding or...

By Autumn Hand on 11/01/11 0

App review: Repudo

Repudo, the fysical location bound message service, explained and reviewed. The app proves to be easy to use, original and playful, but still comes with some minor issues...

By Joep Hegger on 10/08/11 1

Book review: ‘Designing Culture: the technological imagination at work’ by Anne Balsamo

In this book, ‘Designing culture: the technological imagination at work’, Anne Balsamo, Professor of interactive media at the University of Southern California, calls for a new approach to technological innovation arguing that culture must be taken into account when...

By Philip Breek on 09/19/11 0

Book Review: What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly

“Space: the final frontier – to boldly go where no man has gone before.” This may be the answer Kelly was looking for when he set out to answer his own question, the title of his book and thesis. ...

By Christopher Mead on 09/18/11 3

AR CV OTW!?

The Augmented Reality Curriculum Vitae, in short AR CV, has been developed in a business collaboration between CWJobs.co.uk and Symbian co-founder David Wood.

By Agathe Wiedemair on 10/28/10 0

The Era Of The Digital – a lineage

The Daily We ‘The principal threat to the Richmond Daily News, and indeed to all newspapers small and large, was not competition from other newspapers but radical changes in the overall ecosystem of information.’ As Clay Shirky explains the...

By Fenneke Mink on 10/18/10 2

The Future of Hacking

Data theft, child pornography, spying on governments and spreading destructive computer viruses. When thinking of the term 'hacking', we usually think of internet crime, computer breakdowns and some geeks sitting in front of their laptop looking for a fresh...

By Caroline Goralczyk on 10/15/10 0

Wikipedia – an Impression About the First Entry

On Saturday, 2nd october, I become an official member of Wikipedia community. Namely, I posted my first entry. The article is about the Multimedia City, a project I wrote about in my first blog post on Masters of Media...

By Michal Kielbasa on 10/03/10 0

How do you like them Apples?

Apple is back from the dead. How does Apple try to get on top of Microsoft? How do they take this advertising war and how are they promoting...

By Frank Molenaar on 09/12/10 5

A Rise of a Polish Silicon Valley?

The project, titled “Multimedia City,” began operations in the Nowy Sącz national center of innovation and focused on multimedia and information systems. The Multimedia City's strategic goal is to become one of the tenth most innovative centers in the...

By Michal Kielbasa on 09/11/10 0

Creating documentaries to engage the viewer: Prison Valley- a webdoc.

In November, 2009, Philippe Brault and David Dufresne, journalists for Arte.tv were onstage at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam to present the online platform and the first 30 minutes of edited footage of their upcoming project: Prison...

By Stefania Bercu on 09/11/10 5

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

Mixing Realities

Today my RSS feed list provided me with an interesting link that directed me to the coverage of the latest Diesel fasion show. It is not that I am particularly interested in Diesel clothing, on the contrary, but I...

By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 09/24/07 2

dr Leo Kannerhouse

This Thursday I will be visiting the Dr Leo Kanner house in the Netherlands. In this house there is a special multimedia theatre were people can experience the world through the eyes of a person with autism. The headquarters...

By Heleen van der Klink on 02/12/07 0

Diversionary Therapy Technology- a game that helps Australian burns sufferers

In this project children with serious burns get diverted during the treatment of their injuries. This project has won the Australian national award for collaboration. From their website: “ACID is working with the Royal Children’s Hospital Brisbane to develop...

By Heleen van der Klink on 01/06/07 0

Crash Course On Computer Design

En 1998, l’iMac d’Apple met de la couleur dans le monde gris de l’informatique. ARTE F (10) L’iMac En 1998, l’iMac d’Apple met de la couleur dans le monde gris de l’informatique. Ovoïde, translucide et coloré : à sa...

By Jan Simons on 12/17/06 0

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – day 5

The Innovation Lab 2006 winner of the 10.000 euro price for further development is Blendid. Chairman of the jury, Frank Alsema, presented the price to David Kousemaker and Tim Olden, with their project ‘Sound World: Audio-Augmented Experiences’. This Innovation...

By Esther Weltevrede on 11/25/06 3

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – day 4

Day 4 is the last day before the big pitch on Friday. Frank Boyd introduces the day with a session on what to think about in the presentation. Today is about pitching. Pitching is about inner preparation, outer preparation,...

By Esther Weltevrede on 11/25/06 0

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – day 3

During day 3 and 4 the teams work on their own project. The experts visit the teams during the day to give personal feedback. On day 3 a special guest accompanies the expert group: chairman of the jury Frank...

By Esther Weltevrede on 11/25/06 0

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – day 2

Day 2 is about users. More specifically today is about understanding and applying user centered design methods. Tracy Currer is leading today’s session. Tracy Currer is an interaction design consultant and is an experienced guide in innovative processes. The...

By Esther Weltevrede on 11/24/06 0

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – day 1

Day 1 is introduction day. What projects are participating in Innovation Lab? Who are the teams? Why are they participating? What are the goals of the projects? And how are they going to achieve these goals? Expert in innovative...

By Esther Weltevrede on 11/22/06 0

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – introduction

This week the Innovation Lab workshop ‘Broadband/HD’ takes place. Media Guild initiated this workshop week for ICTRegie in collaboration with EuroLAB and Unexpected Media. The focus is on generation and development of innovative cross-platform applications for optimum use of...

By Esther Weltevrede on 11/21/06 0