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Using map projections in data visualizations

Using map projections in data visualizations

In an era of internet users actively creating their own content, easily accessible tools are available for the public to create their own data visualizations. Applications like Many Eyes or Tableau Public give statistic enthusiasts the appropriate possibilities to...
By Yeun Au on 03/24/12 54
Google’s Newrosis: How the issue language pre-determines the content of Google search results

Google’s Newrosis: How the issue language pre-determines the content of Google search results

Newroz is a traditional Iranian new year holiday celebrated by Kurdish people between March 18 and 21. During this year's celebrations, unnecessary police violence resulted in the death of a politician in Turkey. However, since Turkey lifted the ban...
By Demet Dagdelen on 03/21/12 Comments Off on Google’s Newrosis: How the issue language pre-determines the content of Google search results

David Berry Thinks Software

David Berry, the second speaker of the Software Matters session at the Unlike Us #2 conference, took the audience on an informative journey into the ever-increasing scale and importance of...
By Catalina Iorga on 03/18/12 Comments Off on David Berry Thinks Software
Participatory Media Art

Participatory Media Art

This is a report of the session on participatory art held on February 28, 2012 from 9 to 11 AM in Amsterdam. The session was organised as part of a course called Critical Media Art, itself part of the...
By Renoud Netjes on 03/05/12 4
Art is a Time Machine and Sonic Acts XIV is Travelling Time

Art is a Time Machine and Sonic Acts XIV is Travelling Time

Pictures by Sophie de Krom We have experienced a mix of spectacular, timeless and technical sounds, dynamic pictures, relaxing smells and impressive colors. A combination we could hardly imagine before we had visit Sonic Acts. When we arrived at...
By Anne Laurine Stadermann on 03/01/12 Comments Off on Art is a Time Machine and Sonic Acts XIV is Travelling Time

Mark Changizi – “Cultural selection as the new blind watchmaker” at “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there”

In his presentation at MOTI‘s “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there” theoretical neurobiologist Mark Changizi elaborated on the research method he applies to investigate the field of why it is that the human...
By Sjoerd Tuinema on 12/21/11 1

Marcelo Somers: Advertising works when it can scale

The Syndicate is a new breed of an ad network. Among its members are Khoi Vinh, former NYTimes.com design director, Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper, and Horace Dediu, mobile computing analyst.
By Andrian Georgiev on 12/09/11 Comments Off on Marcelo Somers: Advertising works when it can scale

How Chinese Weibo has Changed China

Weibo is the chinese name for “Micro blog”, which was born two years ago, but now has already reached millions of users. Because of the strict censorship in China, the birth of weibo is the same as the birth of...
By Siying Yang on 11/21/11 1

Wikimedia Conference 2011: Cultural Heritage, Commons and lots of Data. Pt. 2

This is part 2 of my report on the Wikimedia conference 2011. The first part can be found here Teun Lucassen – Wikipedia is reliable Almost all the sessions in the cultural heritage track were presentations about...
By Joris Pekel on 11/08/11 Comments Off on Wikimedia Conference 2011: Cultural Heritage, Commons and lots of Data. Pt. 2

Wikimedia Conference 2011: Cultural Heritage, Commons and lots of Data. Pt. 1

On Saturday 5 November, the Wikimedia foundation held a conference in Utrecht. I took the opportunity to go there and write this report about it. Because of the size I decided to split it in two parts. The first...
By Joris Pekel on 11/08/11 3
WappZapp; the revolution of interactive real-time television

WappZapp; the revolution of interactive real-time television

The computational era we currently live in overwhelms us with the latest gadgetry, fidgets and means of communications. It is a tidal wave of new media micro-evolutions which we engulf ourselves in every day. Its innovational force moves so...
By Jeroen Rijskamp on 11/06/11 2
Interview with Lex Slaghuis, organizer of Hack de Overheid

Interview with Lex Slaghuis, organizer of Hack de Overheid

What is Hack de Overheid (hack the government)? Hack de Overheid is an event where hackers, government officials and journalists come together to work with government data. Hack de Overheid thinks that at this moment there are a lot...
By Wouter Timmermans on 11/03/11 2
Is your boyfriend cheating on you? There’s an app for that too

Is your boyfriend cheating on you? There’s an app for that too

With new smart phones and GPS tracking, it’s possible to find and locate the position of other smart phones and the human body that goes with it. But is this legal? Does privacy still exist? Japanese women apparently don’t...
By Wouter Timmermans on 11/03/11 62

Meanwhile in Hungary

When the new media law for Hungary was passed on 21st of December 2010, many people were outraged at how much of a setback it was for press freedom in Hungary. A Facebook page named “One million people for...
By Demet Dagdelen on 11/02/11 Comments Off on Meanwhile in Hungary
Four considerations to Microsoft’s Productivity Future Vision video

Four considerations to Microsoft’s Productivity Future Vision video

Robot butlers, flying cars, invisibility cloaks, super powers, nutrition through pills, teleportation, time travelling; we all know these future predictions from the movies and comic books. Some developments seem plausible, others improbable. They play roles in our daydreams and...
By Stijnie Thuijs on 11/01/11 Comments Off on Four considerations to Microsoft’s Productivity Future Vision video
Facebook 126 : 10 NING. Lessons learnt

Facebook 126 : 10 NING. Lessons learnt

When creating an online community on NING platform for newcomers in Amsterdam as part of our Masters of Media project, me and my colleagues had very ambitious plans about attracting vast amount of users to join Yoursterdam community. However...
By Mzia Kupunia on 11/01/11 Comments Off on Facebook 126 : 10 NING. Lessons learnt
Twisting perspective: Sagmeister

Twisting perspective: Sagmeister

Sagmeister was born in1962, he is an Austrian designer. He studied at the University of Applied Art Vienna and the Pratt Institute in New York where he had a full scholarship. He always was passionate for designing covers for...
By Mario Gesteira on 11/01/11 Comments Off on Twisting perspective: Sagmeister
Death of the projectionist and the rise of McCinema

Death of the projectionist and the rise of McCinema

Since I can remember I’ve been in love with film, I’ve worked in video stores and watched so many films that I can’t even remember how many I’ve watched. Since a year I’ve been working at one of the...
By Wouter Timmermans on 11/01/11 Comments Off on Death of the projectionist and the rise of McCinema

Collective intelligence: an interview with Pierre Levy

In a previous post I discussed and, hopefully, debunked some common assumptions on the next phase of the World Wide Web, or web 3.0. The general assumption is that in the 2.0 era the user was at the centre, the...
By Eelke Hermens on 11/01/11 10

iPad for dinner?

The iPad is an all purpose tool. It is ideal to surf on the Internet, play games or other entertainment purposes. However, Apple’s Tablet PC is also capturing more and more restaurants all over the world as an interactive...
By Jesse Oyegbesan on 10/31/11 1
Net Worth: Calculate your worth on Facebook

Net Worth: Calculate your worth on Facebook

My project begun with a question: What is the worth of a single Facebook user? Or: How much money does Facebook make of all the culmination of all interactions on the platform by a single user. To do this,...
By Eelke Hermens on 10/31/11 1
The new media designer, an interview with Robert Crain.

The new media designer, an interview with Robert Crain.

Can you tell me something about your professional background? About twenty years ago, I started studying audiovisual design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, with an elective on graphic design. In my first years, I was working...
By Renoud Netjes on 10/31/11 Comments Off on The new media designer, an interview with Robert Crain.
The only Polish ‘Obamalogist’ explains social media “dos and dont’s”

The only Polish ‘Obamalogist’ explains social media “dos and dont’s”

I have decided to make an intervirew with Magdalena Górnicka (FB, Twitter): social media manager at Publicon – a well know PR Agency in Wroclaw, the only Polish ‘Obamalogist’, co-organizer of Polish editions of Social Media Day conference. She...
By Natalia Miszczak on 10/30/11 Comments Off on The only Polish ‘Obamalogist’ explains social media “dos and dont’s”

What makes a good review online?

Some observations from the paper "Being Heard in Review Communities: Communication Tactics and Review Prominence".
By Andrian Georgiev on 10/30/11 Comments Off on What makes a good review online?