Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
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
Two-day public program on RFID and things to come. 19 & 20 OCTOBER 2007 DE BALIE AMSTERDAM http://www.debalie.nl/recallingrfid It’s in travel documents, building passes, pet animals, clothing stores, libraries, public pools, theme parks and prisons… and yet only a few of us know what RFID is. RFID (radio frequency identification) uses radio waves to identify… Read more Recalling RFID: 19 & 20 October @ de Balie, Amsterdam
Thursday and Friday the European Bloggers (Un)Conference was held at the PICNIC conference and festival. Cory Doctorow attended for an hour to answer questions from the audience about Boing Boing. A lot of these questions concerned the business model and commercial side of the famous blog. Boing Boing is often mistaken for a magazine but… Read more PICNIC07 – Cory Doctorow Q&A at the European Bloggers (Un)Conference
Pablos Holman was so kind to present our Photobooth in his talk about “Implementing Science Fiction.” Here is the YouTube video (sorry for the poor quality, it was filmed with my phone.)
Timo Arnall, Einar Sneve Martinussen and Jørn Knutsen and I built an RFID Photo Booth at the Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp. We think it looks absolutely beautiful and we can’t wait for people to actually use it. If you are visiting the PICNIC festival check it out in the Extraction Hall East… Read more PICNIC07 RFID Photo Booth
Test picture for our RFID Photo Installation with Mediamatic founder Willem van Velthoven. Picnic bags iTea I am covering the Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp @ Picnic 07 and the PICNIC conference in my Flickr stream.