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PICNIC 08 – The Future of Business Creation

PICNIC 08 – The Future of Business Creation

Werner Vogels: CTO amazon The future of business creation Yesterday at 16.15, the last lecture of a three day picnic was given. Dr.Werner Vogels, now CTO of Amazon.com, took the mic and started talking on how to start a...
PICNIC 08 – Secrets and Lies

PICNIC 08 – Secrets and Lies

Genevieve Bell: on Secrets and Lies After the Clay Shirky speech there is no time for questions because it is time for Genevieve Bell, an anthropologist working for Intel (apology accepted), to talk about secrets and lies. She wants...
PICNIC 08 – Introduction

PICNIC 08 – Introduction

This is the first post in a series where the Masters will blog some lectures given at the Picnic 08 conference which is held the next three days at the Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam.
PROblogger: book review

PROblogger: book review

PROblogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income INTRODUCION For some time now I’ve been interested in the eBook phenomenon for a couple of reasons: the business model that lies beneath it (how to make money by...
Video Vortex: opening session Friday January 18

Video Vortex: opening session Friday January 18

Introduction Yesterday the workshop, this morning the start of the two-day “Video Vortex – responses to YouTube”, an international conference organized by the Institute of Network Cultures at PostCS11, Amsterdam. A good crowd fills the hall at the 11th...

Here comes another bubble…2.0

America’s housing market is having troubles, oil is getting ridiculously pricy, and good american patriots would rather have euros than their beloved greenback. The impending doom of the internet business market, just like in 2000, is making a buzz...

Discipline & Dance: Foucault on pointe shoes

Ballet & Discipline have always been inseparable, but this link now gets a new meaning. PANOPTICON is an interdisciplinary performance for three dancers, a musician and video, inspired by Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: the birth of the prison....

Taking Computer Games Seriously

THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT Julian Kücklich University of Ulster: Beyond Narratology OR Taking Computer Games Seriously Chair: René Glas Thursday, November 16, 2006 16:00 – 18:00 P.C. Hoofthuis, room...

Participatory Culture – literature

We’ve talked about Participatory Culture in class with Richard Rogers. To get some idea of what this is, here’s some recommended reading:

Warriors of the Net

In addition to Alexander R. Galloway – Protocol, chapter I: Physical Media, here’s a nice animation: Warriors of the Net
Locative Media & the ´Groninger´ Police

Locative Media & the ´Groninger´ Police

At this moment 30 policemen of Korps Groningen are being trained in the use of a handheld computer which gives the user all kinds of information on the site he surveils. The I-Pac, as the device is called, will...