Masters of Media - Part 130

173 million euro for preservation of audiovisual archives

The following article was published at Dutch newspaper NRC. The article reveals that the Dutch government is going to invest 173 million euro in order to preserve the Dutch audiovisual heritage. This money will be used to preserve 285,000...

By Heleen on 09/22/06 0

FLESHING OUT

If anyone was interested in further investigating the subject of the article of Lev Manovich ( ‘The Poetics of Augmented Space: Learning from Prada’ (2002)) that we have read for our last class of “Nieuwe Media Theorieen“, they may...

By Heleen on 09/22/06 3

Web 2.0 review: Carbonmade

http://mastersofmedia.carbonmade.com/ Introduction Carbonmade is a Web application which allows you to create and host an online portfolio. Creating a portfolio can be a lot of work and take up all your time. Carbonmade offers a service which allows you...

By Anne Helmond on 09/22/06 7

ANP

LOL :) I don’t think we made it to the front page of any important newspaper, but I found the picture of us getting a tan in between classes on the ANP-website :) http://www.anp-photo.com/search.pp?page=11&ShowPicture=3775254&pos=108 “AMSTERDAM – Studenten ‘nieuwe media’...

By Eva Kol on 09/22/06 4

Allan Kaprow “Happenings” in the New York scene

Jeff’s short presentation on Kaprow’s “Happenings” Allan Kaprow

By Jeff van Schie on 09/21/06 0

Chitika

http://chitika.com/mm_overview.php

By Jeff van Schie on 09/21/06 0

Locative Media

What is Locative Media? presentation by Esther Weltevrede & Jasper Moes Here is some extra info on Waag Society’s definition of Locative Media, as can be found on the their website: PsychogeographyPsychogeography kijkt naar de specifieke effecten, die een...

By Esther Weltevrede on 09/21/06 0

(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 0

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 0

Presentation Manovich

Manovich about the shift from Virtual Reality to Augmented Reality: manovichar.pdf

By Anne Helmond on 09/20/06 0

Free co-operation TNT post

The Kim website of the Network department of TNT post. In the end of winter 2005 three colleagues from the networking/infrastructure department of TNT post decided to build a site to make their daily work easier and more efficient....

By Pepijn Uitterhoeve on 09/20/06 0

Bugs

Onderzoek doen naar Nieuwe Media verschijnselen wordt veelal moeilijk gemaakt door allerlei bugs. Hierbij een analoge variant waarmee ik vandaag in aanraking kwam:

By Anne Helmond on 09/19/06 0

An example of online market collaboration

powerpoint

By Eva Kol on 09/18/06 0

(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 0

Can machines think?

The following text discusses Turing and living computers. The text is in Dutch: Vroeger toen ik op de basisschool zat werd mij gevraagd een oplossing te geven op één van de vele varianten van het volgende raadsel: Stel je...

By Roman Tol on 09/13/06 0

Discussion Article Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart – From Augmenting Human Intellect: A conceptual framework Engelbart tries to solve the problem that the complexity of problems is growing exponentially. Therefore people need an artefact to be able to continue to solve these complex problems....

By Heleen on 09/13/06 0

Thinspiration

While watching Hart van Nederland (I’m sorry, I know I shouldn’t…;-) I saw a news item on girls who motivate each other to practice a pro-anorexia lifestyle. At first i thought it was one of those blown up techno fear stories, but to my...

By Jeff van Schie on 09/11/06 3

Modblogging

When surfing the web for a blogculture to study, I coincidentally arrived in the miraculous world of modblogging. Check out the following website on the subject: http://modblog.bmezine.com/2006/04/page/6/ There appears to be a fairly big group of people that gets...

By Eva Kol on 09/11/06 0

Political Blogs/ Blogs about children with behavioral problems

Summary of this post in English: In this post I give an outline of a research of blogs I would like to undertake. I would like to see how many Dutch politicians have a blog. Then I would like...

By Heleen on 09/10/06 0

9/11 Conspiracy blogculture

Concise conspiracy guide to the web Films ‘Loose change’ – www.loosechange911.com ‘Martial Law’ – http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6517776133137328105&q=alex+jones ‘Everybody’s got to learn sometime’ – http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8372366181300641663 Sites on conspiracy www.ditkannietwaarzijn.nl www.vkmag.com/zapruder/C50 www.daanspeak.com/1/911.html www.911review.org www.911blogger.com www.cooperativeresearch.org/project.jsp?project=911_project www.rense.com/general66/dirt.htm www.pentagonresearch.com www.911truth.org www.st911.org Sites that go against...

By Roman Tol on 09/10/06 0

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 0

Discuss Article: Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse – Geert Lovink

On page three, paragraph three Lovink states that ‘blogs were the actual catalysts that realized democratization’. But wasn’t Usenet an early catalyst? Or is Usenet dismissed because it has never reached critical mass? He also states on page three,...

By Anne Helmond on 09/05/06 2