Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Mashable just pointed my attention to the release of a new WordPress plugin which is particularly interesting regarding my thesis. I am currently writing about the increasing relationship between blog software and the engines. Yahoo! just launched a new plugin for WordPress that pulls in related content to your post. As I skimmed briefly through… Read more Yahoo! Powered Shortcuts for WordPress
Flickr just started offering statistics to it’s pro users, that’s me! I couldn’t be happier. Flickr really loves me! I just loved their announcement with all the oldskool “under construction” graphics. To honor the good old days, I made an animated gif from the announcement. I am a stat addict and check my blog statistics… Read more NEW! Flickr Stats! Under Construction. And the Horror of Referrer Spam
I wrote a guest contribution for about:blank, a Dutch blog on blogging that has been around since 2002. The post is about my personal blogging experiences and the Blog as an Evolving Object (In Dutch). Enjoy!
Last night I went to the Blip Festival at the Tank in New York. It was a great evening filled with chipmusic, 8bitlovers, geeky do-it-yourself-addicts and an abundant amount of Gameboys. I also met two great new media critics and fellow bloggers from kenspeckle & deeplinking. 8GB performing at the Blip Festival I wrote a… Read more Photos Blip Festival 2007 @ The Tank, New York City
It’s been over six months since I celebrated my first thousand bookmarks on del.icio.us. Time flies when you are having fun because I didn’t even notice I crossed the 2,000 bookmarks two days ago. But I cordially invite you to my belated “2,000 del.icio.us bookmarks” party! The center of attention today is nr. 2000: #… Read more Celebrating two thousand del.icio.us bookmarks
What does Wikipedia without text and only links look like? Why don’t we recycle the content of our trashcan? Are you dreaming of a startup sound karaoke? Last night the graphical design students of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam presented us a number of projects that deal with the Graphical User Interface. The projects arose… Read more GUI Play by Gerrit Rietveld Academy @ Studio 80, Amsterdam