Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
I have tons of blogs and sites that I read on a daily basis. So a few years ago I started using Feedreader, a nice free RSS-reader, but I am not totally satisfied with it. It doesn’t allow any control over how often it updates my feeds, some posts are not displayed right and it… Read more Review: Feedreader, Google Reader, Bloglines, Thunderbird RSS Reader
After I added all my papers and pictures again I decided to make a backup. For some odd reason something went wrong during the backup. Don’t ask my how, why or when. Suddenly my site didn’t show up at all. Nothing. After resetting reading permissions on my server things seemed to be working again but… Read more WordPress problems #2
Yesterday I noticed that some of my pictures were gone. Everything seemed to be alright on the front page, but there were no pictures in the post pages. I think this happened after I installed the WPG2 plug in which “seamlessly” integrates Gallery2 into WordPress. Wether WPG2 is “responsible” or not my whole WordPress upload… Read more WordPress problems #1
Google is still maintaining it’s strong number one position in the search engine landscape. Microsoft is trying to get back by launching it’s new Live Search service, but are they strong enough to overthrow the almighty Google? This is one of the questions I asked myself for my BA thesis. And of course there are… Read more Open-search kick-off workshop
The Masters of Media are blogging (semi) live from the MyCreativity conference:
Staalplaat with Bas van Koolwijk at the Sensoralia festival 2006 in Brancaleone in Rome. I had a great weekend in Rome with Eliane Roest who curated the Dutch audiovisual showcase for the festival. I helped her out technically by making the DVD. More photos on Flickr.