Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Tonight the Dutch Bloggies Awards 2008 will take place in the Hague. I am a jury member of this edition of the Dutch blog awards and saw hundreds of known and unknown Dutch blogs. I stumbled upon a few unknown beauties (which I will share with you later due to impartiality issues) and was pleased… Read more Dutch Bloggies 2008 Live Stream
In our Introduction to New Media classes at the University of Amsterdam we’ve been deconstructing two music recommendation systems: Mog.com and Last.fm. We focussed on the similarity and difference in the characteristics and the underlying algorithms and of the systems. Last.fm was by far the most favorite website and application amongs the students because of… Read more Last.fm Takes Personal Music Recommendation to Festivals
Yesterday I attended the Amsterdam Flickr Meetup at the NDSM Wharf. An amazing amount of people from all over the world showed up and we spent a great day in Amsterdam North. I started using Flickr less than a year ago but it only took me a few days to take over two hundred pictures… Read more Photos Amsterdam Flickr Meetup 16th February 2008
Photos made for the Institute of Network Cultures. These pictures may not be used without explicit permission. Complete Video Vortex photo set at Flickr. 18 -19 January 2008 International Conference PostCS 11, Oosterdokskade 3-5, Amsterdam The Video Vortex conference is organized by the Institute of Network Cultures, in collaboration with Argos Brussels and the Netherlands… Read more Photos Video Vortex
Voicst at Noorderslag 2008 Voicst at Noorderslag 2008 I went to the Noorderslag festival this weekend for VPRO 3VOOR12. Favorite shows: Nobody Beats the Drum, Voicst, Hospital Bombers & Aux Raus. All pictures at Flickr.
I spent New Years in Vilnius, Lithuania and had a great time, see photos. We attended a party in Club Gravity, an old bomb shelter, where Apparat was performing.