Noorderslag – Spinvis
I went to the Noorderslag festival this weekend for VPRO 3VOOR12. Spinvis won the Popprijs AND the famous beer shower.
Tag clouds as a research object
Tag clouds are a nice way to visualize the content tags of a website. Flickr started this trend when they displayed a “All-time most popular tags” tag cloud on their front page. The size of the tags in the tag cloud is usually relative (more frequently used tags are displayed in a larger font). In… Read more Tag clouds as a research object
Coparck – CD Presentation
Last night Coparck did a showcase for their new album The 3rd Album at Club 3voor12. I photographed the show for NLpop. More pictures on Flickr and read NLpop’s review here.
New Year in Ségur le Château, France
New Year in Ségur le Château, France, more pictures on Flickr.
The networked book: GAM3R 7H30RY & Code Version 2.0
Writing a book online and facilitating a discussion around it seems to be very popular these days. McKenzie Wark is working on GAM3R 7H30RY which will be published by Harvard University Press in April 2007, and it will contain contributions from readers of his site. Readers are discussing and participating in the writing process and… Read more The networked book: GAM3R 7H30RY & Code Version 2.0
Protocol – Alexander Galloway
The subtitle of Protocol is `How Control Exists After Decentralization´ which is the question Galloway sets out to answer in his book. Previously the issue of control has been dealt with extensively by Foucault and Deleuze. Foucault addressed the central control in sovereign societies of the classical era followed by the decentralized control of the… Read more Protocol – Alexander Galloway