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- FIFI2008 Conference with a lot of Poking (and a little bit of E)December 1
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All the invited business contacts of XS4ALL received a Poken at the registration desk of the FIFI2008 conference. It turned out to be the most interesting object of the day. The main conference theme was internet, society and security and the first session that got my interest was a live demonstration of social engineering by Ruud van Diemen from Fox-IT.Used chewing gum or USB-stick?
At the registration desk Fox-IT randomly handed out ten USB sticks to conference visitor. During the session van Diemen asked the audience who had received a USB stick. He then asked these people if they would like to trade this USB stick for his used piece of chewing gum. They all declined and they all admitted to having plugged the USB stick into their computers to take a look at the contents. This is one of the ways Fox-IT hacks into people’s systems to test the security of their businesses. It is a smart way to tap into peoples curiosity, especially if you camouflage the USB stick as a panda in the case of Poken.Do you Poken?
Poken is a new service that both tries to bridge the gap between social networks and at the same time it is a new type of business card. - Software Takes Command by Lev ManovichNovember 24
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Lev Manovich published a .doc and .pdf of his upcoming book Software Takes Command online. You may download it, send in suggestions and remarks and design your own cover.
Here’s my design for Software Takes Command by Lev Manovich using an image I took while visiting the Software Studies Workshop led by Manovich at UCSD.
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- Happy 20th Birthday Dutch Internet!November 17
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This morning I received the following message from my mother:
@silvertje: Congrats! Take part in the world wide party. Today at 14:28h the www has existed in the Netherlands for twenty years.
I would like to celebrate this special occasion with a sneak preview into an assignment I did in high school on the internet. I wrote this piece on the internet in early 1995 with a classmate and I am planning on scanning the whole document and write a reflective piece on it as it is now already 13 years later.
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A lot has happened since high school. Thirteen years later the fascination is still there and I am now an official so-called “Internet Researcher.” So thank you Internets!
The state of the Internet in the Netherlands anno 1995
More background reading in Dutch on the Trouw newspaper website:
- Bruce Sterling: “The person who comes up with the new buzzword for ‘blog’ should win a Nobel Prize!”November 3
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At the Q&A of the Moving Movie Industrie conference someone from the audience asked me what the difference between a journal and a blog is.
In my MA thesis I moved away from the genre approach of blogging that often sees blogging as a form of keeping a diary or as a form of journalism. Rather, I looked at the blog as native to the web, which has its very specific features. With the introduction of blog software standards and search engines the blog has changed significantly. The default settings in the blog software have turned it into an atonomous unit in the network. The blogosphere is just a small part of this network where search engines, ping services, feed readers and other services play an important role.
The blog has changed so much that it is increasingly becoming harder to define it as both the medium and practice of blogging have changed. This prompts the next question in reference to the Wired article whether blogging is ‘over’. Blogging is not over and blogs are not dead but they have evolved into something that no longer resembles the old logging of the web practice that prompted the original word ‘weblog.’ Blog software is often used for publishing magazines or newspapers and the practice no longer resembles the practice of the personal logging of the web.
Seth Godin also noted in ‘
- Slides and notes from my presentation at Stifo@Sandberg Moving Movie IndustryNovember 3
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Last Friday I gave a lecture on ‘The Perceived Freshness Fetish’ at the Stifo@Sandberg Moving Movie Industry Conference organized by Mieke Gerritzen and moderated by Koert van Mensvoort. In my lecture I focused on the changing notion of authorship in blogging as blogs are more and more becoming autonomous units within the network. This network lives on the premise of constant updates and the blogger is caught in this race to keep content fresh.
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