Literanita is a literary evening at De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam where writers and poets present their work. The theme of the third edition was politics with the Dutch elections coming up in a week.

Hugo Logtenberg

Tomas Ross

Robert Junius

Arjen Lubach

More photos on Flickr.

With members of the Digital Methods Initiative we participated in Hack de Overheid where we created a mockup of Tikkr. Tikkr displays the pulse of media spaces and the pace of issues across different media spaces. Our concept won the third prize, woohoo! Notes and slides from our presentation are located below the photos. All pictures from Hack de Overheid are located on Flickr.

Tikkr

The web may be seen as having different media spaces or spheres which have a different pace and where authority is established differently. For example, an issue may be discussed on Twitter and not in the news. On top of that, an issue may “jump” from one media space to another. Until now there has not been a visual overview of where an issue is discussed on the web, its pace, or pulse, and how it may syndicate to other spheres. Tikkr provides the pace of different spheres where an issue is discussed and provides us with a media pulse.

It is aimed at (data-driven) journalists and political parties. Sources are important for journalists and on the web we can find new authorative sources (what the web considers to be authorative, namely: retweets on Twitter, likes in Facebook). There are no pre-defined authorative sources, there is an emerging authority of sources. For political parties it allows you to track your issue, locate where it is and where it is not!

What is the pulse of media spaces: when and where do issues arise? What is the relation of sources across spaces? We can locate hot and cold issues: An issue is published in the news, picked up by Twitter, the dying of an issue > the ticker stops ticking. Where do issues originate and where do they travel? Where is the primary source? Cross reference of sources: Where does an issue resonate most?

Slides

The Next Web PayPal X Startup Rally

Organizer Patrick Laive

Werner Vogels

Presenters Hermione Way and Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

The Next Web Bullsh*t Bingo

Tim Ferriss from the 4 Hour Workweek

@wilg Wilgengebroed

Ernst-Jan Pfauth

Fashiolista

Fashiolista

Fashiolista

Organizer Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

*THE END* Drawings by Wilgengebroed

All pictures from the Next Web Conference 2010 on Flickr.

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Photo by Anne Helmond

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I’m currently in New Jersey, writing for my PhD and yesterday was an exceptionally sunny spring Sunday. We visited the Grounds for Sculpture in Trenton, NJ which was absolutely beautiful! Sun, spring, blossom, I loved it. I highly recommend a visit if you’re near Princeton or Trenton, NJ.

More pictures on Flickr.

Wikipedia CPoV Conference

Geert Lovink

Patrick Lichty (USA)

Johanna Niesyto (DE) and Mayo Fuster Morell (IT)

Ramón Reichert (AU)

Stuart Geiger (USA)

Q&A

More Wikipedia CPoV Conference photos on Flickr.

Femke Halsema

Last night @FemkeHalsema, leader of GroenLinks parliamentary party, hosted a Twitter party for her followers. Five hundred people attended #twist in Pakhuis de Zwijger. The idea of the party came from Queen Beatrix’ annual speech in which she repeatedly stated that online communication forms are bad for our offline relations, that they lead to weaker social ties and promote anonymous hate activity. In his speech, columnist and blogger Bert Brussen, mocked the Queen for sending a telegraph STOP to our Olympic medal winners STOP

The theme of the evening was ‘A Free Web’ and also marked the launch of the GroenLinks campaign Wanted for downloading against criminalizing downloading. An evening in pictures:

Femke Halsema

Bert Brussen

@The_Ed

@Rutger_zelf @tomroes Geenstijl.tv

@alidestorm @globalistaa

@lalalalinder

Femke Halsema

Thank you, Femke Halsema!

All my pictures from #twist on Flickr.