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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!
An interactive animation about the oneliners used in the political debates prior to the 2004 US elections. Viewers can make up there own political debate by clicking on the different candidates and get a random quote.
The animation on the Volkskrant website.
An interactive map to explain the funeral ceremony and the political discussion about the burial ground for the body of Arafat.
The animation on the Volkskrant website.
An early stage photo from the Dynasty research, how to translate the concept into a visual concept. An old grape grower in his new job.
This photo shows my individual concept for the Dynasty project. On the photos there will be old grape growers who were forced to stop due to economic reasons. The photos will show them at their new work, holding up a memory of those glorious days.
A live animated scoreboard to be used during the 2004 US election day / night. The scoreboard uses xml for live updating and changes the colour of the state to republican or democratic.
The animation on the Volkskrant website.
This image shows the most popular tags connected to the articles I have read today The coming weeks we will be further updating the EN.nl news website. The last weeks we have added interesting things on the database level and back-end of the system. Now it is time to bring some of those ideas to the [...]
I like location based services. I’m not sure what to do with it, but I’m sure it will invade/expose our privacy more than social websites already do and I think it will add something new and more to mobile devices that computers can’t. The problem with LBS is that the technology is distributed. Every device and [...]
This week AP urged/forced bloggers to use ‘guidelines‘ set by AP when quoting articles. As you might expect this instantly burned all AP’s credits in the blogosphere. Why? Why? Why would AP be afraid about people copying parts of their articles and linking back? Haven’t we passed this station with newspapers before? I think there might be a [...]
Everyday I commute to work. I can choose to go by car which gives me freedom, loud music, open windows, traffic jams and parking problems. Or I can go by train which gives me time to read books, make this blog post, do some work, have my neighbor sit annoyingly on my lap and hate [...]
The web is becoming a more live medium, the medium itself isn’t changing it is how we publish to it. I think the ‘live web’ is the most exiting development since the rise of social networks. You write a Twitter notification on your mobile phone, post a picture to the web or stream a live [...]
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