http://wordpress.justlol.net If we understand the evolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves. Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:21:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This post is the fifth of a five part series on 'using the web for documentaries', addressing the following points: the embeddedness of society in the internet, the political in the web, the politics of engines, the politics of tools, and the web as an anticipatory medium. So tools ... http://wordpress.justlol.net/2008/12/the-web-as-an-anticipatory-medium/ This post is the fourth of a five part series on 'using the web for documentaries', addressing the following points: the embeddedness of society in the internet, the political in the web, the politics of engines, the politics of tools, and the web as an anticipatory medium. The previous ... http://wordpress.justlol.net/2008/12/the-politics-of-tools/ This post is the third of a five part series on 'using the web for documentaries', addressing the following points: the embeddedness of society in the internet, the political in the web, the politics of engines, the politics of tools, and the web as an anticipatory medium. Now that ... http://wordpress.justlol.net/2008/12/the-politics-of-engines/ This post is the second of a five part series on 'using the web for documentaries', addressing the following points: the embeddedness of society in the internet, the political in the web, the politics of engines, the politics of tools, and the web as an anticipatory medium. Let us ... http://wordpress.justlol.net/2008/12/the-political-in-the-web/ This post is the first of a five part series on 'using the web for documentaries', addressing the following points: the embeddedness of society in the internet, the political in the web, the politics of engines, the politics of tools, and the web as an anticipatory medium. To start ... http://wordpress.justlol.net/2008/12/the-embeddedness-of-the-society-in-the-internet/ I was invited to give a lecture on the use of the web for documentaries in the framework of Mediamatic’s AnyMedia Documentary workshop, which forms part of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam’s doclab program. Following you can find my presentation of Saturday 23 November in written form. Let me ... http://wordpress.justlol.net/2008/12/using-the-web-for-documentaries/ This afternoon at the Walled Garden conference, the Digital Methods Initiative and I made a funky little website. The concept WALLED GARDEN addresses issues of identity, mobile communities and networks by focussing on the tendency towards online gated and closed communities. How does this affect the (in)accessibility of information ... http://wordpress.justlol.net/2008/11/leakygardennetdataleakageweb20/ Except form being a coach at the Picnic08 Mediamatic social RFID hackerscamp, I and a couple of others made the vBird. vBird is a social bird which likes to fly, but cannot; it needs people to help it fly. The vBird project wished to build upon the successful ... http://wordpress.justlol.net/2008/11/vbird/ In response, and as an addition, to Wilbert Baans' storytelling with public databases, I made a little twitter scraper. It indexed all twits for the query http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22i+voted%22+%2B+McCain+OR+Obama+-twitvote, up till a month ago. From November the 4th till November the 5th the script scrapes new twits for this query ... http://wordpress.justlol.net/2008/11/twitter-votes/ The misspelling generator has been updated to now also generate misspellings for google news, images, blogsearch, and video. It already did the regular web search. It now also does full l33t speak :) For more information about the misspelling generator see my previous blog post and misspelling-generator.org. The misspelling ... http://wordpress.justlol.net/2008/10/misspelling-generator-v10/