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E = Media Combinations2: The survival of the fittest

Every old medium was once new. And when something gets old we’ve got to search for a way to give it its old glance back. The printed book was once a new medium. It was revolutionary, groundbreaking. But today...

By Chris Hoogeveen on 10/13/10 3

Book Review: Bloghelden

The Dutch blogosphere took off only fifteen years ago, but has experienced more than one will do in an entire lifetime. Frank Meeuwsen, who was there when the first Dutch blogs were born, decided this was the right time...

By Joris Pekel on 09/20/10 2

This is not a book

A fair part of the Internet activity is spend by surfing and reading the private findings of others about the cool stuff in live. Random strangers with a talent of writing tell us by blogging little stories of their...

By Fenneke Mink on 09/09/10 1

Apple bombs blogosphere with an airstrike

For the next few days Apple will rule the blogosphere and all of that had to do with the keynote presentation Steve Jobs gave at the MacWorld 2008 conference. It started yesterday and will...

By Maarten van Sprang on 01/16/08 1

Swarm of Angels & Four Eyed Monsters

Filmmakers are in general quite conservative. Their love for high quality image, 16 mm, 35 mm, big screenings and Hollywood attraction is usually overshadowing the curiosity for developments in the area of new media. This is a shame, especially...

By Paulien Dresscher on 11/01/07 1

blog.google.com: Internet finally subsumed by Blogs

It is well known that Google, which depends on every link it indexes to recommend search results, has a certain 'vulnerability' that blogs expose. Bloggers are professional-amateur-pointers. They publish frequently, they link a lot, and then they syndicate...

By Michael Stevenson on 10/18/07 3

Blogvergelijking [in het nederlands]

Juist omdat er zoveel verschillende soorten blogs zijn, met ook verschillende onderwerpen, vormen en doelen, hier een vergelijking tussen 5 blogs. alleen maar Nederlandse blogs zijn. ] De achterliggende vraag hierbij is of...

By Laura van der Vlies on 09/23/07 Comments Off

Review: Blog! How the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture – David Kline and Dan Burstein

David Kline and Dan Burstein points out that the blogosphere will transform many areas of politics, business, media and culture. In their book ‘Blog! How the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture’ they have interviewed...

By Bram Nijhof on 09/17/07 11

Review: Blogosphere The New Political Arena by Michael Keren

Blogosphere can be seen as a new and important element of the new public sphere. On a blog people are able to not only comment on public affairs or read about what they find interesting. On a blog they...

By Rikus Wegman on 09/17/07 Comments Off

We the Media – Dan Gilmor

In his book ‘We the Media: Grassroots journalism by the People’, Dan Gilmor describes the development in the so called grassroots journalism. Gilmors goal is: “to persuade you that the collision of journalism and technology is having major consequences...

By Carolien van der Vorst on 09/17/07 Comments Off

Reflections on Uses of Blogs

Cross-posted at Politics of Many Minds From the perspective of Politics of Many Minds, and doing research into the ‘natively digital’ more general, the book Uses of Blogs provided me some interesting thoughts on investigating blogging and the blogosphere....

By Esther Weltevrede on 09/16/07 4