Carolien van der Vorst

One Laptop Per Child in the Netherlands

On saturday the 15th of December, the first meeting of the Dutch OLPC grassroots group took place. There were lots of interesting ideas and plans. One of them is trying to get XO’s to the Netherlands in order to...

By Carolien van der Vorst on 12/19/07 2

Collaboration on Slashdot

“Sometimes, the complex human-machine constructions are intentional. Often they are the emergent result of aggregating a large number of individual interactions. And occasionally they are both.” Online cooperation has become one of the fastest developping areas of...

By Carolien van der Vorst on 11/22/07 Comments Off

Wikiscanner

In order to get some experience using a new media tool, I experimented with the Wikiscanner a bit. Ofcourse I had to see the changes made by Mabel Wisse Smit for myself. I figured it would be a bit...

By Carolien van der Vorst on 11/05/07 Comments Off

Nietzsche & Web 2.0

The current web 2.0 and the participatory culture are seen as the next big thing. Still, even after the participatory culture has proven to be able to build great things, Wikipedia amongst others, not everybody seems convinced of its...

By Carolien van der Vorst on 10/08/07 Comments Off

Blog analysis: Slashdot

Slashdot is regarded as a highly innovative website. It has been very popular for many years and is currently holding the 33rd position in Technorati’s top 100 of popular blogs. The site has been around since 1997 and is...

By Carolien van der Vorst on 09/30/07 3

We the Media – Dan Gilmor

In his book ‘We the Media: Grassroots journalism by the People’, Dan Gilmor describes the development in the so called grassroots journalism. Gilmors goal is: “to persuade you that the collision of journalism and technology is having major consequences...

By Carolien van der Vorst on 09/17/07 Comments Off