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Maarten Hoogvliet

I am a MA student of the Media and Culture master New Media at the University of Amsterdam and I have a BA degree in Communication and Multimedia Design at the HRO in Rotterdam, formerly a part of the Willem de Kooning Academy of Art. Next to doing my masters I am a graphic designer/illustrator.

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Automated Ontology Structure In Folksonomy

My master thesis is finished! I’ve made it available for download for everyone interested in hybrid folksonomy/ontology Web organization. Download Automated Ontology Structure in Folksonomy (.pdf,  3100 kb) Abstract The purpose of this research is to evaluate automated folksonomy...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 09/05/10 1
Information Visualization & Charting The Beatles

Information Visualization & Charting The Beatles

Since I am a huge Beatles fan and I’m currently enrolled in the Information Visualization course I want to give this project some attention; Charting The Beatles, lead by graphic designer Michael Deal. This projects attempts visual analysis of...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 05/24/10 1
Interactive information visualization for disaster/crisis awareness

Interactive information visualization for disaster/crisis awareness

Natural disasters always have threatened man’s existence. However, as the report ‘New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts’ by the United Nations cites; “the number of humanitarian crises has been rising in recent years. Moreover, disasters strike more frequently, and...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 05/04/10 Comments Off on Interactive information visualization for disaster/crisis awareness

Professional networking sites and social-economic status comparison

“Dan was apparent fifty plus, a little paunchy and stubbled. He had raccoon-mask bags under his eyes and he slumped listlessly. As I approached, I pinged his Whuffie and was startled to see that it had dropped to nearly...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 01/23/10 12

RFID & wireless surveillance in the Internet of Things

In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. It consists of millions of embedded electronic measuring devices. These will probe and monitor our bodies, even our dreams.” A RFID chip consists of...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 10/29/09 1

Classification, culture & the Flickr.com tag

Web 2.0 tagging systems like Flickr’s categorize the website’s content bottom-up. The classification is powered by users applying their common sense and intuition; wisdom-of-the-crowd, resulting in a folk taxonomy of everything that is to be found in the Flickr...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 10/15/09 1

Blogging, Twittering, SMS & Chat improving general writing skills

It is often heard that new media is killing our (especially teenager’s) writing skills. Writing on the Internet take bold forms, which are often assumed to influence the general use of language. Examples are acronyms (used in chat, sms,...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 10/07/09 Comments Off on Blogging, Twittering, SMS & Chat improving general writing skills

Online and Offline Social Networks Evolving/Defriending

Continuing on Kimberley’s post on social network defriending, I’d like to stress some other points relating to social network defriending and its possible context. The Dunbar Number Research by Sociologist Robert Dunbar shows that, at a random moment in...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 09/30/09 Comments Off on Online and Offline Social Networks Evolving/Defriending

The Wiki Beehive

Generally Wikipedia is praised for it’s collective driven overload of information. “Britannica’s biggest errors are of omission, not commission. It’s shallow in some categories and out of date in many others. And then there are the millions of entries...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 09/21/09 Comments Off on The Wiki Beehive

Book review of “Against The Machine – Being Human In The Age Of The Electronic Mob” by Lee Siegel

Lee Siegel was born in New York in 1957 and has Bachelor, Master and Master of Philosophy degrees from Columbia University. While working as a staff writer at The New Republic, an American magazine on politics and the arts,...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 09/17/09 Comments Off on Book review of “Against The Machine – Being Human In The Age Of The Electronic Mob” by Lee Siegel