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Pim van Bree

As a student of the MA New Media my emphasis lies on making the connection between new media and cultural implications. Together with my BA in media management and digital imagineering, and with a profession as web developer, I try to focus on three sides of New Media: the commercial relevance, cultural and critical analysis, and on the actual development and programming of online implementation. Regardless, I am also a sucker for film and series.
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The Internet Is Taking My Pictures

The Internet Is Taking My Pictures

Unlike Google Maps, Russia’s Yandex Карты is much more tourist friendly in that it does not blur your face away when you have been caught on camera! Yandex does not seem to uphold an evenly strict privacy policy as...
By Pim van Bree on 06/06/11 1
Online Piracy, The Ancient Art Of Digital Publishing

Online Piracy, The Ancient Art Of Digital Publishing

Digital piracy is a common aspect on the web, and Internet users are sometimes or even often part of it because an act of piracy is easily done. There are several sharing activities where piracy is involved such as...
By Pim van Bree on 10/31/10 4
Puzzling Infinity

Puzzling Infinity

In memory of this month deceased Benoît Mandelbrot – mathematician, godfather of fractals and the most well-known fractal the Mandelbrot set – I would like to pay respects to the Mandelbrot, in 3D! The phenomenon of fractals itself is...
By Pim van Bree on 10/31/10 Comments Off on Puzzling Infinity

The Threefold Digital Divide

The Digital Divide The common gap in internet accessibility is mainly based on socioeconomic status, determined by skills and resources. The digital divide has often emerged along the familiar fault lines of social inequality: class, ethnicity, gender, age, and...
By Pim van Bree on 10/20/10 1

You Are All Missing Out On Elementary Stuff People

6.060.000 results reports Google on the query “back door”. Another common two word object such as “kitchen table” has 4.470.000 results. I would say a back door is pretty elementary, and pretty much everyone uses it in their daily...
By Pim van Bree on 10/08/10 Comments Off on You Are All Missing Out On Elementary Stuff People

Californian Ideology 2.0, A First Farewell

Where the internet and greater new technologies before have military origin, nowadays technologies and implementation are developed and financed by private companies and organizations. Even the backbone of the internet has become privatized, as part of its protocol, DNS,...
By Pim van Bree on 10/05/10 1

Book Review: “What You See Is What You Feel” by Koert van Mensvoort

A fellow MoM’er already wrote a good review on the PhD thesis What You See Is What You Feel by Koert van Mensvoort. Read the MoM review here and download the full book here. I would like to give...
By Pim van Bree on 09/20/10 Comments Off on Book Review: “What You See Is What You Feel” by Koert van Mensvoort

Svetlana wants to meet

This summer I was sitting with a friend on a nice terrace in the city center of L’viv, Urkraine (I marked it on Google Maps, for your interest). The terrace was overlooking the city’s promenade where the local folk...
By Pim van Bree on 09/15/10 1