Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
It’s been three days since BLOG08 finished so I had some time to wrap up unfinished postings and reflect on the event. First of all I would like to thank journalism.co.uk who enabled me to attend the conference. As you can read on my badge the tagline of BLOG08 was “rockstars of the web” and… Read more BLOG08: The after thoughts
Founder of 1938media.com and the…, puppets. Loren Feldman is one of the loudest videobloggers I have ever seen and heard. His talk starts with an energetic tirade against the recent Wired article that claims blogs are dead which I also responded to. In his opinion blogs aren’t dead because: The most important thing in your… Read more BLOG08: Loren Feldman on the fear of being alone in this digital world
Boris van der Ham, Member of the Dutch House of Representatives Boris van der Ham has been voted the most web savvy of the Dutch House of Representatives and thus apologizes for presenting from paper. The main thread of his story is why a politician would go on the web and start a blog. The… Read more BLOG08: Blogging and politics
Not your average panel with Tim Overdiek, Deputy Editor in Chief at NOS news, Clo Willaerts, marketing manager Sanoma Magazines Belgium, Paul Bradshaw from the Online Journalism Blog and Piet Bakker, professor at the Hogeschool Utrecht. The journalism/blogging panel aims to answer questions gathered via de Nieuwe Reporter, one of the largest Dutch journalism blogs.… Read more BLOG08: Journalism versus/ hearth blogging
Keynote by Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO Mashable Pete starts with his main mantra to “build something you love” which not only applies to forming a blog but to any successful company. He uses the Waybackmachine as a resource to show screenshots from Mashable’s history and talks about its development over the years. People spend… Read more BLOG08: How to build a blog empire
Tomorrow I will be attending BLOG08, a Dutch blog conference held in Amsterdam. As a blog researcher this is a conference I cannot miss. Due to my background I am particularly interested in the “non-commercial” panels such as Blogging and politics and Journalism versus/ hearth blogging and less interested in How to build a blog… Read more Preparing for BLOG08