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My Second Life: The Video Diaries of Molotov Alva

SubmarineChannel presents the first documentary, entirely shot online within Second Life: Several documentaries have been made about Second Life, but now there’s a film that actually takes place insíde this popular virtual world. In the film ‘My Second Life’...
By Heleen on 03/15/07 2

Plans in European Commission to require publication of subsidized research

Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner for information society and media, has released a document (a “communication”) in which the European Commission reveals its plans to require scientists to publish the results of subsidized research. For those who believe in...
By Heleen on 02/25/07 Comments Off on Plans in European Commission to require publication of subsidized research

Blogger sued for copyright infringement

The Telegraaf (Dutch newspaper) reported in their issue of yesterday that Perez Hilton (real name Mario Lavandeira) is being sued for 7.5 million dollars by 7 photo agencies. This blogger searches the internet for photo’s of celebrities and then...
By Heleen on 02/12/07 Comments Off on Blogger sued for copyright infringement

The Oracle Machine: PRESENTATION Saturday January 20, 20.00 hrs / De Balie, Amsterdam

A N N O U N C E M E N T The Oracle Machine An installation for the façade of De Balie in Amsterdam. “This is what we write, this is what we read; this is how we...
By Heleen on 01/15/07 Comments Off on The Oracle Machine: PRESENTATION Saturday January 20, 20.00 hrs / De Balie, Amsterdam

Diversionary Therapy Technology- a game that helps Australian burns sufferers

In this project children with serious burns get diverted during the treatment of their injuries. This project has won the Australian national award for collaboration. From their website: “ACID is working with the Royal Children’s Hospital Brisbane to develop...
By Heleen on 01/06/07 Comments Off on Diversionary Therapy Technology- a game that helps Australian burns sufferers

Smart Clothes: the hug shirt

The Hug Shirt has been nominated as one of the best Inventions of 2006 by Time Magazine! How does it work? The Hug Shirt is a Bluetooth accessory for Java enabled mobile phones. Hug shirts don’t have any assigned...
By Heleen on 12/30/06 Comments Off on Smart Clothes: the hug shirt

Guide de la Netpolitique (Libération, 12-20-2005)

In 2007 the French will elect a new president. The French newspaper Libération offers a practical guide to net politics.
By Jan Simons on 12/22/06 Comments Off on Guide de la Netpolitique (Libération, 12-20-2005)

Person of the Year 2006: You!

Person of the Year: You Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world. By Lev Grossman The “Great Man” theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that “the history...
By Jan Simons on 12/18/06 1
MyCreativity: Made in Europe Part II: Dispatches from the City

MyCreativity: Made in Europe Part II: Dispatches from the City

The closing session of MyCreativity continued the previous session on dispatches from the city: Examples of the Creative Industry -or insert preffered term here- from around Europe. The first session covered Vienna, Dublin, Barcelona and Basel. In this second...
By Twan Eikelenboom on 11/20/06 2

MyCreativity, Fifth Session (Creative Labour and Precarious Creativity) Part Two

Creative labour as the basis for a critique of creative industries policy- David Hesmondhalgh At this presentation Hesmondhalgh would to like think about how an analysis of creative labour might contribute to critique. Therefore he suggests three critical approaches...
By Heleen on 11/19/06 Comments Off on MyCreativity, Fifth Session (Creative Labour and Precarious Creativity) Part Two
Anti-aggression CCTVs: Minority Report in Groningen

Anti-aggression CCTVs: Minority Report in Groningen

The city of Groningen has installed CCTVs with sound sensors that respond to aggressive voice raising. The police can thus anticipate fights, physical abuse, riots and other threats to public order and intervene before anything serious will have happened....
By Jan Simons on 11/16/06 1

Second Life: musicians, business, politicians, John de Mol and the essence of life

Second Life is a virtual world that exists on the servers of Linden Lab, nothing is real except the value of real money. Players can open an account and chat with other avatars. The avatars start out naked after...
By Roman Tol on 11/06/06 7

Users let their guard down on social network websites, such as MySpace

When I was at the netcraft website, I was redirected to another interesting article (from the washington post). The WP reports that internet users are very suspicious when they receive spam e-mails, but they let their guard down when...
By Heleen on 11/03/06 1

More than a 100 million registered domain names, according to Netcraft

According to Netcraft the internet has more than a 100 million websites. This news was brought to my attention by the newsbar in my gmail account, which let me to the Tweakers net website where google apparently found the...
By Heleen on 11/03/06 Comments Off on More than a 100 million registered domain names, according to Netcraft
Jan Pronk has to leave Sudan after remarks on his weblog

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