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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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Dug up in the YouTube archives, James Brown live
James Brown - Sex Machine
The beta of the Volkskrant / VK.tv videoplayer is live to start a load test. The player has some minor bugs and one more visible bug. Asynchrone Javascript doesn’t seem to load in the right order resulting in a blank page.
The player now supports full-screen and the menu is split from the player. This will make the player more stable on slower computers and connections.
The player categories are gone, or even better extended into an unlimited amount by using tags. For example all pop video’s.
Because the database is rich, but small (600- items) we included live search to make sure you can tweak the results continues. Give it a try.
I didn’t post a video clip in a while. Here is a French one, with the first round of the French elections coming up in a few days.
Le Peuple de l’Herbe - Theme
EcoIron designed a Low Wattage Palette that is an alternative to black. I guess hypernarrative-white is not really a sustainable option. Should Greenpeace re-design?
“On average, this palette uses only about 3 or 4 watts more than a completely black screen. White is included as an accent color.”
As found on Bigbeats, 75 minutes of Ripperton for all your minimal summer nights.
[audio:http://ra.residentadvisor.net/audio/RA050_070326_Ripperton-residentadvisor.net.mp3]
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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