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...
Maarten van Sprang
Maarten has a Bachelor degree in Communication and Multimedia Design and is working for Humanique as an interaction designer. Right now he is also finishing his thesis on the New Media Master at the University of Amsterdam. He's is very interested in new media (obviously), gaming and music.
http://www.maartenvansprang.nl/wordpress
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... Wii can do so much more with a remote
To start off 2008 I'd like to show you some interesting videos by Johnny Chung Lee, a Ph.D. graduate student on human computer interaction. He uses the remote from the Nintendo Wii to create spectacular user interfaces. Three videoclips...
…All I got was this lousy t-shirt
In this article I dove into the world of internet memes and tried to find a indicator for the viability and liveliness of these phenomena. As I will show I did find... 
The faces of gaming
Besides playing games, one of the greatest pleasures would be watching other people's expressions while playing games. When people are playing games they totally forget to how look... 
Comparing dirt
One of the most popular blog-phenomena can be found in the celebrity gossip corner. In contrast to the paper tabloids these weblogs can be way faster with the latest gossip and are generally more sarcastic. I will bring forth...
Thanks for the add
Myspace started in 2003 as a stage for aspiring bands and musicians, but evolved from a subculture platform to a mainstream profiling and networking giant. I want to have a look at the... 
Collaboration under censorship
In response the problematic situation in Myanmar, social activists, students and Buddhist monks gathered to stand up against the totalitarian regime of the Burmese government. Blogging is the only way to get censorship free news and forms the heart...
Ignis Solus
In this little machinima movie, Valve shows of their new rendering style in the upcoming game Team Fortress 2. The cool thing about it is that it almost looks like a genuine Pixar short. But everything you see is...
Cold war in RIA-land
Web 2.0 gave the old web a brand new face, and with that, it added cultural and technological changes. Cultural change in the form of weblogging and social networking/bookmarking, technological in the form of User Generated Content and Rich...
Nietzsche on hypertext
This week’s assignment made us compare new media issues to Nietzsche quotes. I came across the following quote: This quote immediately triggered the post-modern idea of differance, that all meaning gets postponed and that one will never get to...
Review: The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
This book is a bundle of theories and case studies which Surowiecki uses to convince the reader that a diverse crowd can come up with better answers and solutions than a single group of experts. The cases he brings...