Masters of Media

Google and Blogger, please stop localizing me!

While writing a piece about the Ubiscribe event on my own blog I went to Blogger’s website. Blogger automatically localizes me based on my IP-address and welcomes me in my own language. Google does the same thing when I...

By Anne Helmond on 04/16/07 16

Making connections at Slashdot

This is just a nice coincidence that deserves sharing. The top post at Slashdot right now explains that The Tamil Tigers Liberation Front has moved up from routine sea piracy to a space-based one They have been...

By Michael Stevenson on 04/13/07 Comments Off

Text chatting versus Face to Face talking

I’m getting rather tired of people ranting on about the inferiority of text-based conversation such as MSN, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo! messenger, G-talk and IRC. The prevailing opinion seems to be that face to face communication is hands down superior to online...

By Pepijn Uitterhoeve on 04/11/07 8

Twingly: Mapping the Global Blogosphere in Real-Time

I was kind of amazed to see this real-time visualization of the a selected portion of the blogosphere. It is ‘marketed’ as a screensaver, but has much more potential than just a screenfiller when you’re away from your screen....

By Twan Eikelenboom on 04/05/07 Comments Off

Masters of Media t-shirts

We have officially opened a Masters of Media store at Cafepress. You are welcome to visit us and buy one of our wonderful t-shirts.

By Anne Helmond on 04/04/07 Comments Off

Help a student! And fill out a short questionnaire

Matthijs Rutten has developed a digital survey for his thesis. It itvolves new media and politics, or in particular the manner in which politicians use digital communication tools in order to get as many votes as possible. In this...

By Heleen on 04/04/07 Comments Off

CiteULike – Sharing academic papers

CiteULike is a free service where academics can share, store, and organise academic papers they are reading. You can add papers on the web that interests you with one click button to your personal library. You can share your...

By Esther Weltevrede on 04/01/07 Comments Off

A Report from Google Geo Day ’07

Thursday was the day of the Google Geo Day 2007 in Amsterdam. I made a report on it and put it on my personal blog because the layout of the Masters of Media site didn’t want to cooperate! This...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 03/30/07 6

Google, politics and censorship

So I’m at my mum’s trying to make some progress on writing my thesis, and she complained about one of the sites she likes to visit – UrukNet – being shunned from Google News. I asked her for some...

By Pepijn Uitterhoeve on 03/29/07 6

Twitter, Tumblr and microblogging

The newest hype nowadays seems to be Twitter which allows you to share what you are doing with your friends every single second. Are you going to the mall? Is your cat sneezing? Update your Twitter page on the...

By Anne Helmond on 03/29/07 6

‘Hundred Thousand Billion Poems’ Interactive online version

Just a short tip about Raymond Queneau’s Hundred Thousand Billion Poems. This website lets you create poems by just selecting buttons, it sure saves some time if you don’t want to cut up your book (which is one of...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 03/28/07 4

Publishing your work: A list of journals, e-zines, blogs and mailinglists to consider

The following lists consists of several journals, e-zines, blogs and mailinglists to consider submitting your article/book review to. I have also supplied links to the general instructions for submitting an essay. This list is by no means exhaustive, so...

By Anne Helmond on 03/26/07 3

What is New Media? A wiki initiative

We have all heard the question “What is new media?” and we often wonder about it ourselves on this blog and elsewhere. The What’s New Media blog also deals with this issue and has recently started a wiki with...

By Anne Helmond on 03/23/07 1

OffTopic: The Shining

I’ve seen Stanley Kubricks film adaptation of Stephen Kings thriller ‘The Shining’ many times… I even read the book when I was younger… which I didn’t like too much, however, as it turns out I really missed to grasp...

By Roman Tol on 03/22/07 1

Link Love and Disrupting Technorati

This next thing is an interesting initiative. Make a blogpost and link as many people to disrupt -or maybe you could call it hack- Technorati’s ranking system. Or you could just call it link lovin’ , since everyone sees...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 03/21/07 Comments Off

Gambling in Call-Games??? I don’t think so….

Currently the Dutch television format Call-Games is under investigation with regards to fraudious practices, illegal gambling, and misleading of viewers. In Belgium the same program is used to interact with its public for the same fraudious and misleading reasons;...

By Roman Tol on 03/19/07 Comments Off

Assignment Zero – Investigating Crowdsourcing

Assignment Zero is a collaboratively authored journalism project set up in association with Wired magazine. In what may be the truest of Web fashions, the project will begin by examining itself – or actually, crowdsurfing crowdsourcing, the process it...

By Michael Stevenson on 03/19/07 4

Molotov Alva

Dispatches from Second Life A series of minifilms entirely shot on location in Second Life. The series can be found at www.molotovalva.com. A preview is, of course, available at YouTube. The series is produced by the Dutch new media...

By Jan Simons on 03/17/07 Comments Off

From Aestheticism to Protest – Joseph Delappe

Today Joseph DeLappe, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno and the head of the Digital Media area and Chair of the Department of Art, gave us an overview of his work. One of his current...

By Michael Stevenson on 03/16/07 2

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

Making presentations using Google Earth

Welcome to Pepijn & Twan’s Presentation on Maps and their Cultural Critique, created within the boundaries of Google Earth. In this presentation for the Information Visualization course we experiment how presentations can be given with the use of Google...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 03/14/07 4

Event: UPGRADE! AMSTERDAM: [TAG & TRACK}

When: wed. March 21st 2007 || start 20.30 hrs. / doors: 20.00 hrs. Where: Melkweg, Theater, Lijnbaansgracht 234 A, Amsterdam | free entrance | LIVE webcast: www.fabchannel.com www.melkweg.nl/upgrade ‘Locative media’ are hot: from cell phones to GPS, to other...

By Anne Helmond on 03/14/07 3

Incompatibility in Protocol: E-mail sent from Thunderbird sometimes doesn’t arrive at Hotmail

In a recent post on my personal blog about Linux compatibility, I wasn’t that surprised that some things just don’t work under Linux. In my case I was unable to connect with the UvA network since Cisco did not...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 03/11/07 2

Multimedia Learning: a video by Eva Kol & Roman Tol

Part 1 Part 2 In this presentation Eva Kol and Roman Tol argue that multimedia presentations, that is presentations with the use of external visual tools, are an excellent instrument for stimulating educative progress.

By Roman Tol on 03/07/07 5