Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
I’m off to Brussels, Belgium for the Video Vortex Conference part one “Responses to YouTube”. I will be blogging live from the conference, so stay tuned! Over the past years the moving image has claimed an increasingly prominent place on the internet. Thanks to a wide range of technologies and web applications it has become… Read more Video Vortex, Responses to YouTube : 5 October @ Argos, Brussels, Belgium
As you might have heard Radiohead dropped its major label and put its new album online for download. This is not a new strategy but what is interesting is that they don’t sell their music through iTunes for $0.99 per song or $10-12 per album but through their site only. They are moving the legal… Read more Radiohead and the Ethics and Future of Downloading Music
I’m at the Lowlands festival and the whole 3VOOR12 crew is Twittering night and day. There’s a great Lowlands mashup with the latest Lowlands Twitters, photos, broadcasts and weather forecasts. After not giving into the Twitter mania for months I have finally joined. Maybe I’ll just use it for festivals only, maybe I’ll grow to… Read more Finally Twittering
I have been tagged by the Fuelmyblog crew with the ‘Eight things about me’ meme. Kevin wrote the following “Anne Helmond: We see your face and yet never have any contact until now!” So it is time to show my face and share some random info/facts with you. The rules: We have to post these… Read more Tagged: Eight things about me
I recently received an e-mail from a classmate who found me on Google Scholar when searching for “design for new media.” I often Google myself but I had not Googled myself on Scholar before. A search for “Anne Helmond” returned four results. All the results are papers I have written during my bachelor at the… Read more How to get listed in Google Scholar?
Why do I feel a need to blog daily? There seems to be some kind of consensus or norm in the blogosphere that blogs should be updated daily. Several blogs about blogging recommend posting daily and blog search engine Technorati’s rankings are correlated to a blog its freshness. There is both an internal and an… Read more Essay: The Perceived Freshness Fetish