Twan Eikelenboom

Research blogging do’s and don’ts

I’ve been thinking a bit what to publish about my research on my weblog, and went to search for other examples of research blogs to give me some guidelines. I stumbled upon this website jilltxt.net/txt/researchblogs.html by Jill Walker who...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/25/06 4

Jan Pronk has to leave Sudan after remarks on his weblog

UN envoy for Sudan Jan Pronk has to leave Sudan because of a weblog post about the Sudanese army. The post in question can be read here: www.janpronk.nl/index120.html. Pronk states that the army has lost a lot of soldiers...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/22/06 3

Is e-mail really for old people? And happy 35th birthday e-mail!

How to keep up as schools in a world where even e-mail is outdated and social networking is the new big thing? Some schools say that the answer is setting up a MySpace page. Can it be that education...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/21/06 4

Plato’s Republic: The decline of the state and the history of the World Wide Web

While reading through Plato’s conversation with Socrates in his classic writings of the Republic, I noticed an almost utopian allegory in Book VIII in which they discuss the decline of the state. The decline discussed by the ancient Greek...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/18/06 2

Yahoo! Timecapsule: What would you like to say to the future?

Yahoo! launched a new subpage called Timecapsule at timecapsule.yahoo.com. Although not very popular in the Netherlands, a timecapsule can be put in the ground with some stuff you think are important to you at that time, you dig it...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/13/06 3

Shocklog: Introducing the term to the world

To our surprise the term shocklog, a wellknown term in the Netherlands, was nowhere to be found on the rest of the World Wide Web. We wanted that to change, so we -The Masters of Media- coined the term...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/12/06 57

Second Life criminals: “Hey, it’s a job!”

Recently Second Life has been suffering from “destructive, malicious activity”. Read the blogpost about it here at the Second Life blog: Security and Second Life. If they want to make a model of the real world, there should be...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/11/06 3

Presentation: Marshall McLuhan – The Galaxy Reconfigured

My presentation on Marshall McLuhan’s The Galaxy Reconfigured from his 1962 book The Gutenberg Galaxy. As an introduction, here is a quote from a great interview with him from Playboy Magazine in 1969. The whole interview can be found...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/11/06 Comments Off

Writely frustrations… and ideas

In the Masters of Media class we’ve been trying out Writely.com for a couple of assignments in the past weeks. Not so long ago the online word processor was acquired by Google. The idea is very promising: “Share documents...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/10/06 14

Book Review: Dan Gillmor – We The Media

We The Media (2004) is the book that launched Dan Gillmor’s career as an authority on journalism and blogging. In his first book Gillmor, once a former professional musician, lets us take a peek at the past, present and...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/04/06 2

A document in time: Anousheh Ansari’s Space Blog

Not many people can say they have been a space tourist, and blogged their experiences at the same time. In the previous weeks the news has been full of Anousheh Ansari, the first female space tourist who spent 20...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/04/06 5

Wikipedia: Bands, VR and Cyberspace

Wikipedia as band promotion? Maybe, it sure makes your band better searchable on the internet. I added an entry to the Dutch Wikipedia about the band I play in, check out the entry at Wikipedia NL. Of course Wikipedia...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 09/27/06 Comments Off

Remember the Milk: Don’t forget to add your tasks

One of the many upcoming Web 2.0 applications is Remember the Milk (RtM), an online personal agenda with the very appealing option to add the locations of your appointments to the map. And yes… it is Beta. Since this...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 09/22/06 3

(Free) Promotion 2: MySpace band networks

An important aspect of bandpromotion in the musicscene, if the not the most important, is networking. Searching contacts, maintaining them, find more contacts, maintain again, etcetera. Together with some other bands I worked on the online promotion for the...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 09/20/06 Comments Off

Presentation: Ivan Sutherland – Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System

Powerpoint for a presentation on Ivan Sutherland’s “Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System” (Powerpoint in Dutch) Download powerpoint Sutherland

By Twan Eikelenboom on 09/20/06 Comments Off

(Free) Promotion: Using social software for event promotion

A powerpoint presentation on the cooperate use of social software/Web2.0 for the promotion of events. Think about the usage of blogs/Myspace for the promotion of events. With quotes by Howard Rheingold (Free cooperation) and Geert Lovink (Zero Comments). (Powerpoint...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 09/17/06 Comments Off

Dutch Christian SGP Blog Culture vs Madonna

Although blogs do provide coverage of the struggle of the SGP youth (the most conversative Dutch Christian party), this seems to be a one-sided debate. The news is clearly stated on the (static) website of the SGP youth (except...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 09/07/06 Comments Off