Just returned from Adobe Live. Was great to meet up with some (former) students I haven’t seen for a while. Always great to see sessions by Aral Balkan. Today he presented two sessions. The most important for me was “the letter to ceo” session(older »
Next week Adobe Live in “de Rai” in Amsterdam. We are taking the train at 8.02 in Leeuwarden Interesting speakers for us developers: Aral Balkan Joey Lott Mike Downey Waldo Smeets Entrance is free! I’m planning to go on 30th of may. »
The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication features a special theme section on the social and cultural implications of search engines. Topics: The Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Search Engines: An Introduction Eszter Hargittai »
Last lecture we had a short discussion on the effects of smart filter. I cited Cass R. Sunstein on this: “See only what you want to see, hear only what you want to hear, read only what you want to read. In cyberspace, we already have the ability to filter »
The slides of today: (Embedded slides: Flash, no longer available.) Some examples we discussed: Long tail of music production/ distribution: Liam Finn on myspace Liam Finn Google adsense The Frisian snuff horror movie I discussed is still in pre-production »
Excellent example of some aspects of the Long tail: Democratisation of production and distribution The power of Word of mouth via blogs to promote artists Or maybe it’s a shameless plug for the fantastic new artist Liam Finn »