Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
On Monday 18 May 2009 in Amsterdam Virtueel Platform organized Archive 2020, an international event on the archiving of born digital cultural content. Born digital content describes digital materials that originated in the digital realm, and have no print or analog counterpart. (see full project description) Virtueel Platform bought second hand diskette disks at Marktplaats… Read more Archive 2020: Introduction by Annet Dekker
Students from the MA New Media (UvA), MA Information Science (UvA) and MA Editorial Design (MaHKU) presented their interactive visualization projects at Crea. The Visualizing our World of Data program contained eight presentations (not all of them are described here), many of which were based on Flickr. One of the requirements of the assignment was… Read more MA students present projects ‘Visualizing our World of Data’
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
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