You can also find me blogging at the electronic music blog eclectro.nl and journalism blog onlinejournalismblog.com.
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Since this afternoon HKU TV is online. The online television- and mediachannel for all studentwork produced by HKU students.
Update: and offline again
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!
Last night Plaid was performing in Tivoli. A song based performance with intelligent electronica and beautiful visuals
Videoblog: all Medialandschap video by Wilbert
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Last week we launched the new Volkskrant website. The basic structure is improved, there are experiments with smart presentation tricks and video is embedded into the frontpage. The overall impression of the page moved from a traditional newspaper website to a news website powered by the well connected and organized infrastructure of a newspaper organization. With the adjusted setup of the organization behind the website the news will be faster, more complete, more interactive and more often exclusive. Most of the website improvement is in readability, accessibility and structure.
Eclectro Last.fm Lovewall (interactive bluetooth installation) from Wilbert Baan on Vimeo. Yesterday we had the first Eclectro party. As written in the last post I was working on a bluetooth/last.fm application. And it worked :) The Eclectro Last.fm lovewall is an interactive installation that uses bluetooth to scan for mobile phones. Visitors are asked to change the [...]
Based on Twitterpoll by Erik Borra I made this visualization. The animation is created form filtering tweets on content. If someone says he or she voted for Obama or McCain this information is stored and turned into numbers. This creates an election poll based on tweets. You can say Twitter is pretty much in favor of [...]
This blog post was written for, and published on the Online Journalism Blog. The last year has seen social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn updating the design of the homepage to turn it more into a notification page: the homepage as a place where you can see what your friends are doing. Your virtual center of [...]
Painting: Jan van de Heyden - inventor of the fire hose - Fire Amsterdam Town Hall 1690 (translated link) Two major financial losses have we seen in the last two months. Not because of the credit crunch, but because everything in this digital world is connected. On the web new information is true until proven false. This [...]
For an interaction designer not using the potential of a medium is horrible. There is this new medium with new a paradigm, new possibilities and you are using it the same way as the old medium. Let’s call it a transition period. McLuhan called it marching backwards into the future. The value of the transition For [...]
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