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Anne Helmond

New Media Research Blog

Happy Holidays to you (including Google bots)December 24 2008

Dear readers, subscribers, Google bots, friends, family, and colleagues

A merry Christmas and a happy new year!

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The web has its Sabat tooDecember 20 2008

It’s Sabat, so ordering online at a Jewish store is closed and will continue in 5 hours and 53 minutes. The web has its Sabat too.

Online shopping has often been regarded as being free from the restrictions of the physical store regarding opening times and location. However, these two (Jewish) stores close their online ordering on Sabat, reinforcing the physical constraints onto the web. Of course, it’s a very conscious choice, as they could also choose to allow online ordering and notify the customer that their order will be processed after Sabat.

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Stifo@Sandberg - The Moving Movie IndustryOctober 28 2008

Where: Theater van ’t Woord
Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam
Oosterdokskade 143
1011 DL Amsterdam

Time: 9.30 hours – 17.00 hours

Entrance: Free

Reservations via conference@sandberg.nl
(obligated due to limited amount of seats)

Program:
09.30 – Registration & coffee
09.50 – Welcome by Mieke Gerritzen & Hans Maarten van den Brink

10.00 – Bruce Sterling (USA ) - Science fiction writer Keynote
10.40 – Julian Bleecker (USA) - Near Future Laboratory Mobile Means Mobile

11.20 – Short coffee break

11.30 – Jan-Bart van Beek (NL) – Guerrilla Games 1 Million Manhours : Making Killzone 2
12.10 – Steffen Pauws (NL) - Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven How TV Watching Will Become An Experience

12.50 – Lunch break

13.30 – Matt Hanson (UK) – Film Futurist Swarm of Angels
14.10 – Ton Roosendaal (NL) – Blender Free and Open Content media production with Open Source, presentation of a successful case study
14.50 – Floris Kaayk (NL) - Film director / artist Metalosis Maligna

15.05 – Short coffee break

15.15 – Luna Maurer / Roel Wouters (NL) - Designers Jubilator

BLOG08: The after thoughtsOctober 27 2008

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 many rockstars of the blogosphere had been invited to speak at this first Dutch conference on blogging. However, blogging is also the domain of the average web user, who does not feel or act like a rockstar online. On top of that the blogosphere is very diverse and I think some perspectives were not represented. I missed a solid (academic) critique on blogging such as Geert Lovink’s essay Blogging, the nihilist impulse. I could have done without GabeMac’s “performance” on videoblogging which I summariz

BLOG08: Loren Feldman on the fear of being alone in this digital worldOctober 27 2008

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 digital life is your personal blog. Not Facebook, not any of the studentgroups you belong to, any of that. None of that matters. The most important thing is your blog. Because that’s who you are. That’s where you have the most control. Your blog is your slice of digital heaven and nobody can fuck with you there. On Facebook and all these other places you are just a common machine. That’s all you are. Facebook doesn’t care about you, Google doesn’t care about you, frankly, I don’t care about you. Who cares about you? You care about you. And that’s why you should put all your energy into your blog.

(write-up by about:blank