Berghain: Adventures in Techno
Over the past few weeks I have situated myself in Berlin on a mandate to take in and absorb all that is the music culture here. On a mission to discover the heartbeat of the European music industry, I...
Theory on Demand: an interview with editor Margreet Riphagen
Margreet Riphagen is the Institute of Network Culture‘s project manager and the editor of the Theory on Demand book series. Here she explains TOD project’s background and how it operates as action-oriented research – and also proof the exploding...
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...
Srebrenica and the Dutch Wikipedia
With the case against Ratko Mladic underway, the collective blind spot developed by the Dutch for the massacre of Srebrenica is again taking central stage in news coverage. The argument for a supposed blind spot may be backed up...
The Online Love Search: attention cheaters!
Make life living , start an affair today! Attention cheaters, adultery has been legitimized..online that is. There are websites for most things imaginable and that includes online dating sites encouraging extra marital affairs. These are sites created to bring...
The lessons that “teaching” taught me: Following the campaign for the development of the Greek-language Wikipedia, Part II
The truth is that one needs all the support that can get when is called to present an online encyclopedia in front of the so – called Net Gen or Generation Y. I wouldn’t dare to count myself a...
The Online Love Search: Nigerian-Romance-Scam
Hi And i thank you for this service. I got cault in a scam. i had a good friend that was aware of this site. but i aready tracked the money threw western union that was suposed to go...
Shanzhai Factory Life
One of the things that I really wanted to do in Shenzhen aside from sightseeing was to visit a factory where they produce electronics. Quickly I found out that factories in general are not too eager on letting in...
Sciencemappr: Some dataset related implications
In my previous blogpost I posed some questions concerning the visualization project I am currently working on. The purpose of the project is to visualize global scientific interest for human rights issues and the emergence and disappearance of scientific...
The Online Love Search: cash, credit or no love?
“Register now and find the man of your heart’s desire within less than half an hour” or “ Everyone deserves a loving other half, take our personality test and find your match ” or “ Looking for the right...
Data Visualization and News
In my last writing “Data Visualization and Political Election” I have portrayed the historical significance of data visualization analyzing political elections. Political elections has a huge historical significance which involves sociological context, cultural context or even economical context as Bernhard...
History of electro, metal and jazz through visualization
This idea of mapping music visualizations as a means of discovery is something that I have previously touched on. In looking at examples of music visualizations that have bore applications, something that I find particularly interesting is that some...
Scientific Visualization: how to let the brain understand that it sees itself?
Abstract: Scientific visualizations are part of the branch of data visualization. They primarily show 3D models of natural phenomena. Scientific visualizations are under-represented compared to information visualization (the other part of data visualization). Time to take a closer look...
Politwittic
Politics in the age of new media have different characteristics than the politics before the year 2000. Since its launch, the World Wide Web revealed itself as a powerful tool to reach a large part of the (wealthy) population....
Visualizing Academic Interest
The internet has been heralded and praised for bringing democracy. It is stated since the advent of the internet that knowledge is no longer bound to limitations, as it goes freely over the web disseminating to all possible directions....
The Unbound Book Conference: bloggers needed May 19-21!
We’re seeking bloggers for the Unbound Book Conference (http://eboekenstad.nl/unbound/), a timely international forum on the future of the book and reading and publishing in the digital age. Dates Thursday, May 19 @ Hogeschool van Amsterdam Friday, May 20 @...
The Online Love Search: A self assessment
eDarling -The new way of meeting a partner, that really suits you On their frontpage, eDarling.se suggestively guarantees its visitors a suitable match. So how does an online dating site such as eDarling set out to get to know...
Music visualizations as a means for discovery
The basic idea behind information visualization (InfoVis) is that it takes an otherwise stagnant data set of facts and numbers and transforms into an imagery filled with visual patterns and elements. While this idea is certainly not new it...
Online Love Search: New Identity
You might recognize the feeling of a brief immediate panic, one where your hands fail to remain dry, your mouth goes depleted and you experience slight nausea, recently it happened to me. I had just committed my first ever...
The Online Love Search: A legitimate profile picture
So following the 48hrs of eagerly anticipating to see my profile picture set up on my new eDarling.se profile, which should ‘guarantee me up to an 80 percent greater chance in meeting a potential partner’ I have been sent...
The Search Engine That Talks Back to You
With the mission of defining 'the future of information consumption', the founders of Qwiki, a self-proclaimed multimedia alternative to the text-based search provided by Google state to have launched the 'next big thing': a narrative search-tool based on the...
Free and Open: Unfolding the politics
Lets talk about the supposedly free and open Web again, not ‘again’ in the sense that it has been discussed too much or too abundantly but in the sense that maybe new and other frameworks have to be introduced...
Risky Business: How Microsoft Turns the Threat of Contagion into a Profit
Computer viruses have posed a threat to the Windows operating system and its users since its earliest versions. The security update, often integrated in the infamous service packs, is the never-ending temporal solution for those that want to minimize...