Welcome on my blog, it's my personal space about things I like, projects I do and thoughts I share. Feel free to comment, I enjoy reading your ideas and opinion.
You can also find me blogging at the electronic music blog eclectro.nl and journalism blog onlinejournalismblog.com.
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Hi, hypernarrative is a blog by Wilbert Baan about Art, Media and Technology with a focus on interactive storytelling. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed with Google or Netvibes. I'll post a few messages a week. Thanks for visiting!
photo: Chiy Yu
“Before 2002 I never knew from where my family originated. It turns out my great-grandparents emigrated from a little down called Monastyriska in Ukraine when it wasn’t such a good time to be Jews in Europe.”
College Photographer of the Year, 2002, Gold Medal Winner.
A new cms to power this website, WordPress is the new machine behind the log. Good bye Pivot, we had some lovely years together. The current lay-out shows categories in the right column, all messages will also appear on the front page.
The site is under development, minor bugs should be ignored. There is a small lay-out bug in Internet Explorer on a PC. The page validates xhtml.
Last week I was reading a Wired article (March edition) about how the video rental service Netflix is awarding $1.000.000 to the person or group who can improve its recommendation algorithm by 10%. Todays popular websites use smart algorithms to determine what we want or might like. Google is famous for its mix and so is [...]
At the Next Web conference there was an overall urge for relevancy. You noticed it in presentations and startups. Unfortunately there weren’t many speakers that had exiting answers. In his presentation Robert Scoble made clear that for most new web applications ‘The first experience sucks‘. Why? This is inherent to how these new web applications work. The [...]
Since we started with the concept of EN we had a certain idea of what it would be like. Now we have the first working version the possibilities seem endless, but what is the killer application or function? What is it that gives new options to the things we do with news? In this post I’m [...]
EN.nl (and.nl) is a new project where we are experimenting with new media, users, technology and journalism. This project is an open project where the public process plays an extremely valuable part in designing and shaping the news website. The online news industry really changed over the last years. I think we’re at a point where [...]
Last week I did an experiment with a linear story and loading photos from Flickr. This week I made a second experiment using the same code and adding a map. I will try to tell a second story. About the story This story is about how fast urban areas are growing. These growing areas aren’t in the [...]
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