Tag Archives: open search

Report on the Forum on Quaero

Erik Borra | 04 October 2007, 5:34 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

As part of Open-Search, I was invited to participate in the Forum on Quaero at the Jan van Eyck Acadamie in Maastricht, September 29 and 30, 2007. The purpose of the forum was to question and investigate the European intentions to build a search engine and, broader, to investigate the cultural, political, and philosophical issues related to information search and access.…

911truth.org dissappears from google

Erik Borra | 28 September 2007, 11:35 am | 16 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Update: 911truth.org reappeared in Google’s search returns on October 7. No explanation has been put forward yet, but this second coming has been nicely documented and visualized on the Issue Dramaturg [added 10/10/07 by Michael].

About a year ago Richard Rogers, Marieke van Dijk, and I made the Issue Dramaturg, a tool to display a site’s Google rank per query. Today, whilst…

New Network Theory – Siva Vaidhyanathan

Michael Stevenson | 28 June 2007, 12:08 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

New Network TheorySiva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System and currently associate professor at NYU, is here to talk about the Googlization of Everything.

Siva’s starting point is that Google is part of our lives, and we talk about in a way that resembles the way…

Masters of Media at Versgeperst

Anne Helmond | 31 May 2007, 11:26 am | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

Twan did a great job presenting our blog at the first edition of Vers Geperst at Club 11 in Amsterdam. A New Media student from Utrecht from the audience contacted us afterwards to talk about the blog and New Media. Other great presentations included Michael Stevenson – the Whatever Button and Erik Borra – Open Search.

View all pictures from the event.

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Second Open-Search Workshop

Anne Helmond | 18 April 2007, 6:27 pm | tags: ,

For your info:

What: Second Open-Search Workshop
When: Saturday April 28, 2007, 13.00h CET, 11.00h GMT, 06.00h EST, 4.00h EET, 01.00h HST, 04.00h MSTDuration: official program will be 4 hours
Where (physical): CREA, room 204, Turfdraagsterpad 17, 1012 XT Amsterdam (route: http://www.crea.uva.nl/contact/zoomplattegrond.html)
Where (virtual): http://www.open-search.net/Opensearch/SecondWorkshop
Cost: free attendance, free drinks
More info: http://www.open-search.net/Opensearch/SecondWorkshop

If you can hold a keyboard, you should be at this workshop!

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