Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
When: Thursday 14 May 2009, 15:00-17:45 o’clock Where: CREA Theater, Turfdraagsterpad 17, Amsterdam, http://crea.uva.nl Entrance: free In a unique cooperation of three master programs, students have developed eight interactive visualization projects. Graphic designers from the Utrecht Graduate School of Art and Design, media analysts from the Faculty of Humanities and computer scientists from the Science… Read more Visualizing our World of Data
In 1996 I created one of my first homepages, a tribute website to the Canadian band Eric’s Trip. I was able to claim a beautiful Geocities url: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/3500/ It’s one big piece of pure nostalgia and 1996 web aesthetics: Photoshop flares, optimized for Netscape and hand-coded with HTML Notepad. The Last Update JavaScript stamp reads… Read more Goodbye Geocities: On Archiving Websites
I’ve been thinking about buying an e-book lately. I recently moved houses and, boy, books are heavy! I haven’t bought one yet because none of the available e-books currently meet my criteria: Fast: no flickering when turning pages Editable: make notes with qwerty keyboard or touchscreen writing: as a teacher this is a must have!… Read more The e-book is more than a medium, it’s a platform
I love music, I love free stuff but not everything online can be for free. Please stop whining about Last.fm introducing a paid membership system for listening to radio stations. A membership for one year will only cost you about 1 or 2 CDs. I know you might not know what CDs are but they… Read more Stop Whining. Why I am paying for Last.fm
Music and Bits unconference Jeff Jarvis (What Would Google Do) Andrew Keen Ricardo Baeza-Yates Renato Valdés Olmos (My Name is E) Matt Mullenweg (Automattic/WordPress) More pictures on Flickr: The Next Web 2009 (Set)
I’m blogging at the Next Web Conference over at the Next Web blog. Please check out my posts there: Andrew Keen “Web 2.0 is dead, long live Twitter†Ricardo Baeza-Yates “People don’t want to search†Chris Sacca “Users distinguish success from failure†Klaas Verbeken “Porn as the backbone of technological innovation online†Music and Bits… Read more Blogging at the Next Web Conference