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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!
“What happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages?”
www.tashian.com/multibabel
Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication
Through Shared Metadata
http://www.adammathes.com/
A serie of five Westland related photos for a permanent exposition in a museum in the Westland.
“The photos show five portraits of the last generation grape-growers who used to cultivate grapes for a profession. In their hands they are holding memories from the glorious days of the Westland grape industry.
Faster and cheaper ways of transportation and improved cooling techniques made cultivating grapes in the Dutch Westland a very costly and labour intensive alternative on a global and local market. Causing the disappearance of the very specific knowledge of cultivating grapes.”
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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