Tag Archives: world wide web

Blogger sued for copyright infringement

Heleen van der Klink | 12 February 2007, 3:41 pm | tags: , , , ,

The Telegraaf (Dutch newspaper) reported in their issue of yesterday that Perez Hilton (real name Mario Lavandeira) is being sued for 7.5 million dollars by 7 photo agencies. This blogger searches the internet for photo’s of celebrities and then places them on his own blog. The blog of Perez focusses on gossip about celebrities, one could say he scoops the…

Wikipedia Battle Log: Neologisms, Minorities and US Centric Views

Twan Eikelenboom | 06 February 2007, 7:00 pm | 19 comments | tags: , , , ,

Bomb (yes taken from Wikipedia, no not a neologism)In a couple of the previous posts on MoM we announced that we were adding the term ‘Shocklog’ to the English Wikipedia. Why? Well, the term is used often in the field of Media Studies and genre specific blogs need to have a name. But since last week our entry has been removed (again). Wikipedia doesn’t allow neologisms and because…

Person of the Year 2006: You!

Jan Simons | 18 December 2006, 11:46 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

Person of the Year: You

Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.

By Lev Grossman

The “Great Man” theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that “the history of the world is but the biography of great men.” He believed that it is the few, the…

interesting locative media websites

Heleen van der Klink | 05 December 2006, 11:42 am | tags: , , , ,

I have found a couple of interesting locative media websites/ articles/ blogs:

These involve geotracing:

Location based mobile phone games (pervasive gaming):

Article about botfighters, a mobile (location based) multi user game (/pervasive game):

Mobile pacman game:

Blogs:

Mark Poster- “Digitally Local Communications: technologies and space”

Heleen van der Klink | 18 November 2006, 7:06 pm | tags: , ,

photo of mark poster Mark Poster is a professor of history at the History department of the University of California. His special academic interests are: European Intellectual and Cultural History; Critical Theory; Media Studies. Last year we have read one of his articles “Foucault and databases” for another one of our classes.

For our new media theories class we’re reading literature about locative media…

Users let their guard down on social network websites, such as MySpace

Heleen van der Klink | 03 November 2006, 4:03 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

When I was at the netcraft website, I was redirected to another interesting article (from the washington post). The WP reports that internet users are very suspicious when they receive spam e-mails, but they let their guard down when they visit a social network website like

More than a 100 million registered domain names, according to Netcraft

Heleen van der Klink | 03 November 2006, 3:15 pm | tags: ,

According to Netcraft the internet has more than a 100 million websites. This news was brought to my attention by the newsbar in my gmail account, which let me to the Tweakers net website where google apparently found the news. I then googled (!) Netcraft and found the same news article there!

Plato’s Republic: The decline of the state and the history of the World Wide Web

Twan Eikelenboom | 18 October 2006, 9:29 pm | 2 comments | tags: , ,

PlatoWhile reading through Plato’s conversation with Socrates in his classic writings of the Republic, I noticed an almost utopian allegory in Book VIII in which they discuss the decline of the state. The decline discussed by the ancient Greek philosophers resembles the history of the web untill now very precisely. I will give you my view of how I see…