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    <title>Crossmedialab Blog</title>

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    <dc:creator>hello at crossmedialab dot nl</dc:creator>

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 		<title>Exhibitionist Strangers with Tourette Syndrome</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/75/exhibitionist-strangers-with-tourette-syndrome</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/75/exhibitionist-strangers-with-tourette-syndrome</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Erik Hekman</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>I am not a big fan of online cooperative gaming on the Xbox 360. It is not that I dislike these types of games on the contrary; I like the thrill of working together and competing against a non-familiar non-artificial player. However in order to cooperate one has to communicate. And this is the part where I mostly mute the conversations rendering all opportunities to cooperate.</p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/75/exhibitionist-strangers-with-tourette-syndrome#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:52:21 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>Coffee and battle</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/74/coffee-and-battle</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/74/coffee-and-battle</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Harry Smals</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>The <a title="bemoved" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY1uDPO_3ps&amp;feature=player_embedded">BeMoved</a> coffee-machine is a great idea! This apparatus does not only dispense coffee but also supplies you with information from internet, it helps you to know your colleagues better and it makes it possible to lose calories instead of gaining them. Imagine: a cup of coffee with minus 5 calories! It is an advanced coffee-machine, with a touch-screen and a camera. The result is quite similar to a <a title="multi touch table" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP5y7yp06n0&amp;feature=related">multi-touch table</a>, but you can’t put your cup on top of it, it serves your coffee. The next step could be that you drink your coffee with your colleagues in India and Brazil; plus share photo’s and synchronize agenda’s etc.&#160;</p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/74/coffee-and-battle#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:47:44 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>&#39;Immersion&#39;</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/73/immersion</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/73/immersion</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Dick Swart</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>Not so long ago when I did some research about Alternate Reality Gaming, I found out that there are a lot of misconceptions concerning Immersion. Without starting definition debate #2197 about what Immersion is and what not, I think it is safe to say that it is basically the intensiveness of a person to ‘be’ in a fictitious realm and the ability to lock out his own realm of reality. A big problem is of course that it can be difficult to determine what is the real realm in which you actually live and what the fictitious realm is in which you have immersed. I think it was 庄子 who said: ‘Am I a man dreaming he is a butterfly or am I a butterfly dreaming he is a man’. The answer is unfortunately all too easy: The most boring realm in which you keep ending up after switching from realm to realm is most likely the one you actually live, pay taxes, loose kidneys and finally die in order to go to the biggest fictional realm ever conceived by human called heaven and/or hell. </p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/73/immersion#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:28:24 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>Pandora’s Neocracy #3, The future of mobile communication</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/72/pandoras-neocracy-3-the-future-of-mobile-communication</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/72/pandoras-neocracy-3-the-future-of-mobile-communication</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Kees Winkel</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>Communicating, interacting and participating by means of mobile apparatus is booming; social networking, banking, navigating, watching (delayed) television. The mobile communication trend seamlessly fits in the development in which more than one media is available and used (crossmedia) to provide in the (information) needs of civilians and consumers. It also has an impact on the social and commercial development.</p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/72/pandoras-neocracy-3-the-future-of-mobile-communication#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:51:23 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>Mediabattle</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/71/mediabattle</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/71/mediabattle</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Matthijs Rotte</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>Last week students of the Universities of applied sciences Utrecht and Enschede took part in a media battle. The concept of the battle was quite simple; Five companies presented a real life case before the students which they had to find a solution to. The companies presented them with cases varying from funeral services to branding of a region. All this in only two and a half days time whilst working in teams of three or four. The challenge was on.</p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/71/mediabattle#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:18:18 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>Back to the future?</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/70/back-to-the-future</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/70/back-to-the-future</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Yvonne Buma</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>Not so long ago all you heard when you asked which communication method should be used to get the result you wanted from your communication efforts, was internet related methods. “I’ll send them an email. ’’Oh, you need a website.”  “Use Twitter.” Etc. etc. But there are all kinds of signals that old-fashioned methods are making a comeback. </p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/70/back-to-the-future#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:03:03 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>Those good old fax machines</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/69/those-good-old-fax-machines</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/69/those-good-old-fax-machines</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Niniane Veldhoen</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>This week I took another trip down memory lane. I was cleaning out some boxes at the attic and came across a bunch of old faxes. It drove me right back to when I was about fifteen years old.  Me and my girlfriends used to spend evenings faxing to a group of friends living on the other side of the country. My dad always used to wonder why the fax machine was out of paper, again...</p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/69/those-good-old-fax-machines#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:44:44 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>Brand Building in the 21st century</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/68/brand-building-in-the-21st-century</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/68/brand-building-in-the-21st-century</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Harry Smals</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>A brand is an association network in people’s brains.  It’s not just a logo and a name stitched on a shirt or burned on a tea casket. The shape and colour of the logo mean something to people. They associate the sound of the brand-name with positive or negative experiences. People attribute their experiences to the brand, as well as the stories from other people’s experiences. Whether brand managers like it or not and whether the stories are true or not.&#160;</p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/68/brand-building-in-the-21st-century#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:59:11 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>Loose the iPad! Get me an iProxy</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/67/loose-the-ipad-get-me-an-iproxy</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/67/loose-the-ipad-get-me-an-iproxy</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Harry van Vliet</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>Daily life is becoming more and more complex despite the increasing use of ‘intelligent’ applications and services. The latest being the iPad. Of course ‘intelligent’ is a term whose meaning is quite relative, as Negroponte has already subtly pointed out: “A dog can recognize you from your gait more than one hundred yards away, whereas a computer does not even know you are there. Almost any pet can tell when you are angry, but a computer does not have a clue. Even puppies know when they have done wrong; computers don’t.”</p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/67/loose-the-ipad-get-me-an-iproxy#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:06:17 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>“NO CHOICE TV”</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/66/no-choice-tv</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/66/no-choice-tv</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Dick Swart</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>I don’t think that a lot of people will agree with me but for me; having around 200 TV stations and a decent remote control is a mixed blessing. Of course I’m very happy that I have this enormous amount of choice. I can’t get enough from MGM, SCIFI, Discovery, History Channel, Holland doc Etcetera but I also have to admit that I rarely finish a program to the end. Usually I wander of from the program I like and end somewhere else. This is mostly instigated by the curse called commercials but not so long ago I realized that it’s not only avoiding commercial breaks, but also an unconscious and pathetic need to zap around. My thumb just doesn’t like to miss things, This so called WWILA (Where Was I Looking At?) is annoying afterwards. I feel stupid that I haven’t finished a documentary or movie although it was really worthwhile to watch it. It makes me feel a gluttonous entertainment junky who just happens to be hooked on imagery. </p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/66/no-choice-tv#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:57:51 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>This is cool!</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/65/this-is-cool</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/65/this-is-cool</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Yvonne Buma</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>Have you noticed the <a title="Content Media Playbook " href="http://www.junta42.com/media/30678/junta42-playbook.pdf">Content Marketing Playbook</a>, 42 ways to connect with customers? I discovered it on <a title="Junta42" href="http://www.junta42.com/">Junta42</a>. There is more fun stuff there by the way. But this is really cool. You want to know which media you might best use to spread your content and don't have the time or energy to really study all the different types of (social) media and what there pitfalls mights be? Take a look at this small booklet. You can download it for free, so why not. </p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/65/this-is-cool#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:43:55 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>How big is your idea, and does size matter?</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/64/how-big-is-your-idea-and-does-size-matter</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/64/how-big-is-your-idea-and-does-size-matter</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Jelke de Boer</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>To be able to survive in a global market we need innovation. We need a creative industry, and most of all we need ideas. Preferably good ideas but just a whole bunch of ideas would do for now. Let’s start by having a look at the word "idea”. What is an idea? And what makes one idea a good one and another one bad? It's mostly circumstantial so there is no easy way to sepa-rate the good from the bad and the ugly. What we can do is look at the scale of an idea. I think we can divide the world of ideas and concepts into three different domains; there’s great inventions, big innovations and small improvements.</p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/64/how-big-is-your-idea-and-does-size-matter#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:54:32 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>Pandora’s Neocracy #2, Hope</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/63/pandoras-neocracy-2-hope</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/63/pandoras-neocracy-2-hope</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Kees Winkel</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>For the first time since many years I have watched our queen’s Christmas speech and listened. (<a href="http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=10445151">http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=10445151</a>). I have never been a real fan of monarchism as a whole but, hey, what the hack, at least we in Holland have someone who’s keeping us together, haven’t we? But now our first lady from her ivory tower told ‘her’ people that we are actually getting less social. We have no more ‘nabuurschap’ (close social companionship, ‘talkoot’ in Finnish, for all that matter). The reason according to HRH is digital media. Can you believe HRH said this? Where did she get that royal wisdom?</p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/63/pandoras-neocracy-2-hope#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:44:55 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>Happy Holidays!</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/62/happy-holidays</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/62/happy-holidays</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Matthijs Rotte</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>Happy Holidays!</p>
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 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/62/happy-holidays#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:29:35 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>There&#39;s something about cell phones..</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/61/theres-something-about-cell-phones</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/61/theres-something-about-cell-phones</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Niniane Veldhoen</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>I remember the good old days. The days without mobile phones. The times where there was just one telephone in each household.. I remember my mam calling me: ‘Nien.. Tineke on the phone for you!!’  And then I would chat with my friend and make an appointment at what time we would meet where.  We would always meet under the big clock and I was always on time.</p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/61/theres-something-about-cell-phones#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:21:40 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>Push or Pull?</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/60/push-or-pull</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/60/push-or-pull</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Yvonne Buma</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>Last week I attented the annual congress of the Customer Media Council. All speakers but one were talking about how we should move from print media to digital media. How we should do it and what the benefits would be. And as you can imagine the benefits would be enormous. If…. we would have a good content strategy. Firms like Albert Heijn  are trying to move totally away from print. </p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/60/push-or-pull#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:52:19 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>A personal history of gadgets</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/59/a-personal-history-of-gadgets</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/59/a-personal-history-of-gadgets</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Dick Swart</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>In 1966, when I was about 6 years old, I was a gadget myself. We had a black and white television and it had just three channels. Netherlands 1 and 2 and we could receive Belgium 1. Every time my father or an older member of the family wanted to change the channel, they asked me to change it for them. And I, thinking that they let me do that because I was so good at it, proudly walked up the television and changed the channel for them. My parents, brothers and sisters (all 10 of them) had a remote control ‘avant la lettre’.</p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/59/a-personal-history-of-gadgets#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:27:14 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>Digital Scarcity</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/58/digital-scarcity</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/58/digital-scarcity</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Erik Hekman</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>I can remember the first website I created when I was 14 years of age. The website title was ‘Erik’s Little Home on The Web’. Come on… I was 14! On this website I gathered Visual Basic scripts, had a section for the Orlando Magic (was huge fan of that team), published music made with FastTracker2 and had a small section for StarTrek. I used animated GIF’s such as a rotating @, had repetitive backgrounds and the  &lt; blink &gt; tag was no stranger to me.</p>]]></description>
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 		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:47:31 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>Is social media making us less social?</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/57/is-social-media-making-us-less-social</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/57/is-social-media-making-us-less-social</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Matthijs Rotte</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p><p>A famous Dutch comedian once said:,, When we invented the calculator, we got worse at calculating. Could it be that because of communication technology we got worse at communicating?”. Making things easier often means we get worse at thing, we need to practice. Our brains need the exercise to tackle more difficult problems later on. For Example: if you wanted to say something to your auntie, that lives on the other side of the ocean, you’d send a letter. You would think long and hard on what and how to say it. Your brain gets to exercise. You’re being creative. You’re message would hold meaning. Some of this is because the medium used is the letter, which enables you to think before you communicate. And because of the slower pace of life people had time to think about their message. If you’d go to a bar the messages of people would therefore be more thought over. Because people would be used to think before sending their message, at least a fraction longer then now. In making it easier to send your message to someone else and the demand of modern society to react fast, the message becomes less thought through. Communication has gotten more volatile. We see it every day. Combine this with the anonymity of the internet and you’ve got a cacophony of un-thought-through messages. Every moron with an opinion can be part of an intelligent discussion. And smoothly the norm is transformed to; <em>Say anything, anytime, anywhere, anyhow</em>. So the quality of communication has gotten less.</p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/57/is-social-media-making-us-less-social#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:14:31 +0100</pubDate>
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 		<title>Pandora&#39;s Neocracy #1</title>
 		<link>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/56/pandoras-neocracy-1</link>
 		 <guid>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/56/pandoras-neocracy-1</guid>
		 <dc:creator>Kees Winkel</dc:creator>

 		<description><![CDATA[<p>Let’s not argue over the fact whether Pandora had a box or a jar. According to my source her original container was called pithos. Whatever may be the ultimate truth, as we may learn from Greek mythology, Pandora gave us ills, toils and sickness. And hope. Zeus ordered his friend Hephaestus to create a woman – Pandora – to punish mankind after Prometheus stole the secret of fire. As the story goes, Pandora had been given a large jar [pithos] and i<em>nstruction by Zeus to keep it closed, but she had also</em> <em>been given the gift of curiosity, and ultimately opened it. When she opened it, all of the evils, ills, diseases, and burdensome labor that mankind had not known previously, escaped from the jar, but it is said, that at the very bottom of her box, there lay hope</em>, good old hope. Apparently, once Pandora understood what had been in her pithos, she quickly closed it.</p>]]></description>
 		<comments>http://crossmedialab.nl/blog/post/56/pandoras-neocracy-1#comments</comments>
 		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:06:06 +0100</pubDate>
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