Stats

By Kees Winkel on 16 December 2011

Normally, I’m not really that much into statistics but today, as I stumbled upon my old post of 2 January 2011 ‘More than 7 trillion SMS messages will be sent in 2011’, I decide to check if that is actually the case. So, trying to find any information on the issue, I ran into these stats that are pretty nice, at least for me. Please don’t bug me with any remarks on reliability in general and the stats in particular. They are just indicators, not religion.

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“Sokal’s Hoax”

By Dick Swart on 10 December 2011

One of the unanswerable questions in life is whether philosophy is a science or not. To me it is not. Philosophy is like a fitness center. The activities are absolutely pointless but it looks cool and it might help you doing a proper sport (science). The relation between philosophy and science has not always been the same. In ancient times it was believed that philosophy began where science stopped. But that held no water for science only progresses over time and it would put philosophy in the same perilous position as religion. Useless rearguard fights with the inevitable result of unconditional surrender.  It has also been said that philosophy was a mother and her three children were the natural sciences, language sciences and psychology.
The post-modernists claimed that those children had grown up and had become too specialized for mother to understand. As every good mother knows, you should leave their children alone when they are grown up. But post-modernist mommy didn’t do that. In stead she started ‘parroting’ her daughters. She used the vocabulary of her offspring in order to disguise her erratic thoughts and by doing so created a verbal diarrhea that is unparalleled until now. Let me give you an example:

tagged with: social context, sokal, post modernism, philosophy

LinkedIn: rubbing shoulders and outbidding one another

By Dennis Ringersma on 7 December 2011

I thoroughly enjoy LinkedIn. It functions as my CRM, I can keep track on who’s following me and I can connect to interesting people with whom I can make more meaningful connections at a later stage. I also use LinkedIn to show my profile to the world of business. But, lately something about LinkedIn has been nagging me.

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Crossmediale opwinding met Dieuwertje en de rolstoel piet.

By Rogier Brussee on 3 December 2011

tagged with: sinterklaas journaal, sinterklaas, tv, crossmedia

Trends in Mobile according (self-proclaimed) experts

By Kees Winkel on 29 November 2011

So, what are the trends in Mobile? here are an odd fifty experts expressing their wisdom. What do you think? (Source: http://www.slideshare.net/rudydw/mobile-trends-2020)

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I'm less than 5 steps away from Kevin Bacon, now what?

By Frank Meeuwsen on 26 November 2011

This week, researchers at Facebook and the University of Milan published a study which concludes that the degrees of separation between any two people in the world is no longer the famous six degrees of separation. We are actually more connected than ever. The number has been reduced to 4.7. The study, which measured how many friends people have on Facebook, found that the notion of six degrees of separation had been shrinking over the past three years at the same time as the dominant social network bumped up its userbase. The study itself is unique in itself, the researchers used the actual Facebook data, 721 million active users and a staggering 69 billion friendships among them. This is the largest social network study ever released. 

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Freemote Treshold

By Jelke de Boer on 24 November 2011

I’m very excited about the upcoming Freemote festival, a gathering of electronic artists from all over Europe.  Freemote is providing a stage for contemporary creative communities to share ideas and to collaborate. We will be participating in this creative event and our students will take part in the Freemote academy program. And as it’s all about audiovisual and electronic art here’s the festival trailer just to get you into the flow.

tagged with: freemote, motion design, video mapping, creative industry, art

(my) Life is a festival

By Michiel Rovers on 20 November 2011

Sometimes all pieces of the puzzle come together. Last week I got this feeling at Festivak, a congress for festival organizations in RAI Amsterdam. In one afternoon my past, present and future festival experience passed before me eyes. Here is a short summary of my festival life in one afternoon.

tagged with: crowdsourcing, festivals, participation

Online versus real life experiences

By Charlotte van Nus on 16 November 2011

It is a well known fact that the internet has brought with it many changes to the world economy, society and the daily lives of people. As people use the media and applications to define their identities (as I argued in my last blog), these developments and opportunities that accompany them might even be important for people’s perceptions and values. The popularity of internet applications results in their being used regularly to provide services for the general public. Besides that, the interactivity also creates opportunities for consumers to be proactive in gaining new experiences. As a result, the ways people choose to attend, prepare and experience events have changed.

tagged with: museumkompas, festivals, experience

Can you measure quality, experience, satisfaction & loyalty?

By Harry van Vliet on 14 November 2011

To give away the happy ending: yes you can. Was there ever any doubt? Well, yes actually. Quite recently a book was published that discusses the ‘sense and nonsense’ of performance indicators for cultural institutions such as museums (Bunnik & Van Huis, 2011). The book is highly enjoyable as a solid overview of how performance indicators entered the discussion between museums and (municipal) government, and gives some highly welcome advice on how to structure the ‘conversation’. It is also a good starting point for our own investigation in ‘Museumkompas’ into performance indicators of new cross media services for museums. But there are two issues in the book that trigger me to comment on it.

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