A special collection of videos of this weeks #PICNIC09 (www.picnicnetwork.com) generated by the attendees and collected via twitter by dutch trendwatcher Vincent Everts. Enjoy! Here is his overview !! Also check Picnic09 on Vimeo, YouTube and Blip.tv
Tagged picnic presentations on [...]
Next week the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam hosts PICNIC ‘09, Europes trendsetting festival with three inspiring days of ideas, fun and sensory stimulation in media, technology, entertainment, art and science.
Of the Smartmobs team Mark A.M. Kramer of Mobilizy GmbH in Salzburg and trendwatcher Gerrit Visser will attend and aim [...]
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display until Sept 09 at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In [...]
We are all part of the “delete generation”. Every second of every minute of every day people around the world are deleting their history, their thoughts and arguments, which these days are invariably presented in a digital environment. Penny Carnaby states that “our understanding of the impact of this kind [...]
On June 22 at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands doctor Lilia Efimova defended her thesis on blogging practices of knowledge workers. For her dissertation Lilia studied early adopters of weblogs to provide insights relevant to introducing blogging in knowledge-intensive environments.
Efimova’s findings suggest that ‘while in some cases [...]
According to todays Press Announcement in the Netherlands Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality though the camera of your mobile phone.
Layar, which was first launched in June 2009 in The [...]
Manuel Castells deals in his book Communication Power with the question where power lies in the network society. In this paper, Christian Fuchs discusses important issues that this book addresses, and connects them, where possible, to his own works and reflections.
The book is discussed along [...]
SmartMobs readers may like to watch on blip.tv this special Supernova Interview with Andrew Rasiej on ‘How Tech has changed Politics’.
[...]Foreign Policy August 6 2009 ‘”Authoritarian regimes should fear Twitter”
Combined with other tools - e-mail, social networking, and blogs — Twitter can certainly be helpful in spreading news about upcoming flashmobs and protests. The demonstrations following Moldova’s disputed election earlier this year were a perfect example, where a [...]
Via lifeline_forum@googlegroups.com July 13, 2009
Brief Proposal Mobile Literacy UNESCO
Dear all,
Let me inform you about our literacy programme with mobile phones.
We are implementing this programme with Bunyad and Mobilink (Mobile carrier).
The idea is simple. By sending many interesting SMS in Urdu to learners everyday, we try to [...]
&IntoConnection is a movement that wants to build a brighter future through connecting people worldwide.
On the 21st of June 2009 &IntoConnection presents the outcome of a worldwide research into connection in the form of a book, in 14 main cities of the researched countries: Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Buenos [...]
In the first 36 hours until 19 June A.M., over 90,000 people showed support for the people who fight for democracy at Iran, and changed via the website ‘Help Iran Election’ their Twitter avatar to have green overlay (the official color of the movement).
On June 22 2009, 16:15
Location: Utrecht University
Promotion and PhD defense of L. Efimova on her dissertation with the title: Passion at work Blogging practices of knowledge workers.
The PhD dissertation is online (downloadable pdf) and in print.
Slidepresentation with highlights from the dissertation. Also read Bernie [...]
RT @santoshmaharshi Minute by minute India elections 2009 results http://bit.ly/b8YSK
RT @shankargan it is interesting to see BBC’s live coverage mashed up with user comments and tweets [bit.ly] indian media, listen [says Shankar Ganesh, a 17 Year Old Blogger and Freelance Writer from India]
RT [...]
Evgeny Morozov posts on Neteffect.The New ForeignPolicy.com April 25 5.56 P.M.:
“Despite all the recent Twitter-enthusiasm about this platform’s unique power to alert millions of people in decentralized and previously unavailable ways, there are quite a few reasons to be concerned about Twitter’s role in facilitating an unnecessary global panic [...]
TechCrunch Europe’s Mike Butcher conducted a short video interview at Next Web 2009 in Amsterdam with entrepreneur and author Andrew Keen. Keen predicts the end of Web 2.0 and the dawn of a new age of individualism, driven primarily by Twitter.
Patrick Meier announced that the Ushahidi platform has been deployed at VoteReport.in [blog] to crowdsource the monitoring of Indiaas upcoming elections. [Press Release] [@votereportindia on Twitter] [Votereportindia's PbWiki] [FAQ]
Patrick is a Doctoral Fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian' [...]
‘Status updates on sites such as Facebook, Yammer, Twitter and Friendfeed are a new form of communication, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard’. [wikipedia] [tweetsearch]
“We are all in the process of creating e-mail 2.0,” David Sacks, founder of business social network Yammer said. Tens of millions [...]
Paper prepared for presentation at the International Studies Association annual meeting in New York, February 15–18, 2009
‘The Blog vs Big Brother: Information and Communication Technologies and Human Rights, 1980–2005′
by: Lucía Liste Muñoz (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) & Indra de Soysa, Professor of Political Science, Norwegian University of Science [...]
Patrick Meier of Tufts University shares with Smartmobs readers his dissertation ‘The Impact of the Information Revolution on Authoritarian Rule and Social Resistance: From Information Revolution to iRevolution?‘
Patrick writes Smartmobs: The question driving my dissertation research is whether digital resistance poses a threat to authoritarian rule? In other [...]
Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende was not amused when he found out that foreign minister Maxime Verhagen posted a twitpic a week before directly from the cabinet meeting in the Trêvesroom.
[by way of Nu.nl/internet]
Balkenende said he “appreciated the minister of foreign affairs interest in trying [...]
Prince Willem Alexander of the Netherlands blogs his visit to the Antarctic continent. (photo gallery) The dutch Prince and his wife Princess Maxima are guests of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in Rothera Research Station. They will be informed about the effects of the changing climate [...]
The real pioneers of Twitter are are creating a style guide for Twitter and other services for the short form. This will be a compendium of styles and tips to help you become more effective in writing for such a small space.
Follow their work in progress at 140 Characters
Patrick Meier of Tufts University at Medford, MA wrote Smartmobs:
My colleague Joshua Goldstein and I are teaching a new full-semester undergraduate course on Digital Democracy. The course is being offered as part of Tufts University’s interdisciplinary Media and Communication Studies Program.
A copy of the syllabus (subject to [...]
The report ‘Democratic culture. Opening up the arts to everyone’ by Demos Associate John Holden looks at what ‘culture’ means today, and challenges audiences, critics and cultural professionals to change their attitudes in order to allow greater access and participation.
John Holden starts with a classic quote of [...]
As one of the Top 100 tech-startups in the world Red Herring awarded the dutch internet startup Nimbuzz with the prestigious Global 100 award.
Nimbuzz Mobile lets you call, chat, message, and send files on the go, for free. It combines all your [...]
By its very nature, communications infrastructure is general. It can be used to plan both legal and illegal activities, and it’s generally impossible to tell which is which.
Last year, a US army intelligence report worried that terrorists could plan their attacks using Twitter, and there are unconfirmed reports [...]
TweetMinster is a public service in the UK that makes it easier to connect the public with politics using Twitter. TweetMinster allows to track UK politics in real time, and to find and follow Members of Parliament (or invite them to use Twitter if they’re not already doing so) [...]
DCortesi wrote up on Christmas day ‘08 ‘My First Follow’ a little tool that shows you who your first follow was on Twitter. Already this little creation is spread among twitterers like wildfire.
Damon Cortesi aka @dacort who earlier created TweetStats and DMDeleter instructs:
“There are [...]
Interview on Blogs.newsobserver with organizer (via Facebook) of University of North Carolina flashmob rave in the undergraduate library.
[thank you Thomas for submitting]
“BN: Well, the description for the event was about a page long, the directions to everybody. In essence it was just this: At 11:55 p.m. on Tuesday [...]
The Dutch IT company Getronics treated daily commuters at Utrecht Central Station on October 14 on a real flashmob mini musical.
The flashmob was performed by a group of musical students from the city of Tilburg. Enjoy their performing art !!!
[thanx to Gerben for letting us know]
The flashmob was [...]
It’s quite a weekend ‘Freedom Not Fear 2008′ calls 11. October 2008 for an international action day in as many European capital cities as possible and elsewhere around the world to demonstrate against what they label as ‘the total retention of telecommunication data and other instruments of surveillance‘.
Also [...]
Via Twitter Alper points to the Free Culture Conference today by Students for Free Culture and Free Culture Berkeley. In the Netherlands in the Hague a sortlike event takes place.
Free Culture is a movement focused on creativity and innovation, communication and free expression, public access [...]
October 11 is National Coming Out Day. Promoting a voice to text messaging service speech technology company SpinVox(R) assumes that “people won’t just be taking their gay pride to the streets — they will be taking it to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and countless other social networks. And [...]
The following is a very informative excerpt by Masters of Media from the University of Amsterdam of the Surprising Africa event at Picnic 08.
Bring the world to Africa and bring Africa to the world.’ (Gisel Hiscock, talking at Surprising Africa)
Hiscock, one of speakers at [...]
Erik Hersman talked at Picnic 08 on ‘Surprising Africa - what we can learn from Africa’ about the way they use Mobile Phones. Here is the slideshow of Erik’s presentation.
The truth about Africa is that there are some very interesting, and surprising, developments [...]
‘How will PICNIC 2008‘ affect the lives of visitors? That’s the question on top of an interview with Monique van Dusseldorp, Programme Director of PICNIC. Monique answers: “I hope PICNIC will provide participants the opportunity to make real connections. I hope people will find new energy, get inspired [...]
In February this year, a man was convicted of murder partly on evidence relating to his texting style.
[by way of Stuart Houghton's Pocketpicks]
After David Hodgson killed his girlfriend - nineteen year old Jenny Nicholl - he attempted to make it seem as though she was still alive [...]
The PICNIC Green Challenge preliminary jury selected from among 235 entrants, all of whom sent in detailed plans for inventions that would combat climate change. One finalist is from Switzerland; the other three are from the United States. The PICNIC Green Challenge is the international creative competition of the [...]
O3b Networks, with support from Google, Liberty Global and HSBC, to deploy world’s first high-speed, low-cost satellite system to transform communications access for billions worldwide.
Original Press Release O3b Networks September 9
O3b Networks Ltd. announced it will begin deployment of a new global communications infrastructure to provide high-speed, low-cost [...]
Justin Oberman posted on techPresident the personal Democracy Forum about the usage of mobile phones in this year’s election and writes us: “Even though it doesnt mention Smartmob in the article that is essentially what it is talking about”
The difference between mobile’s original political roots and what we are [...]
MoMoment: Amsterdam MoMo #7 - Rudy de Waele
posted by Sam Warnaars, filed under MoMoments
more about Rudy DeWaele, founder at MobileMonday Madrid
In this insightful 23 minute keynote Rudy de Waele gives 15 tips to create value for mobile. He shares his view on the various drivers [...]
Blogged here last week that I started ‘bliin-ning my life’ and promised to keep you posted about the experiences.
From the hands on experience I pretty much endorse the Bliin concept. This despite the trouble that a bug on Windows Mobile 6 (build 18120 and later) gave initially [...]
Jim Witkin wrote on Triplepundit a very interesting story about social ecology as one of the five pillars of sustainability. Jim refers to work of Walter Stahel — one of the founders of the sustainability movement.
[by way of Christian Kreutz Bookmarks on Delicio.us]
Many of the initiatives [...]
Recently I found Bliin a social networking service using satellite positioning data, mobile phones and the internet. Using Bliin marks my first 2.0 experience with GPS satellite positioning systems and that’s quite a thrill for a nomadic worker.
“Bliin enables users to be live all the time, anywhere in [...]
Social networks and video-sharing sites don’t always bring people closer together.
“NATION shall speak peace unto nation.” Eighty years ago, Britain’s state broadcasters adopted that motto to signal their hope that modern communications would establish new bonds of friendship between people divided by culture, political boundaries and distance.
For those who still [...]
DutchCowboy Maarten Lens-FitzGerald announced via Twitter that Google engineer Jyri Engströms Nodal Point key note video of is on the SPRX blog
In 40 minutes Jyri Engström builds upon his ideas of social objects and social peripheral vision. He adds the idea of nodal points.
Jyri is co-founder [...]
Sarah Perez published on ReadWriteWeb an interesting post about how SRI’s iLink technology changes the future of Social Media in the Military.
iLink, a social network analytics technology from SRI International has recently been integrated into three online communities used by the military: Platoon Leader, Company Command, and [...]
“Sous-veillance” will see video sharing sites such as YouTube used by citizens to shine a spotlight on things such as deadly hygiene lapses in hospital wards and uncollected rubbish, according to the European Information Society Group (Eurim).
The vision of the “public monitoring the state” and shaming them into action using [...]
On Mashable (twitterer/blogger) Steven Hodson argues that ‘Twitter is Not a Micro-Blogging Tool’. In Steven’s view Twitter “is no different than another service that we have had for a very long time on the Web and it’s called Internet Messenger or Gtalk or any number of messenger [...]
Choconancy pointed us to this ‘Digiactive introduction to Facebook Activism’ by Dan Schultz Lead Researcher of DigiActive ‘A world of digital activists’.
The social basis of activism explains why Facebook, an increasingly popular social networking site, is a natural companion for tech-savvy organizers. Because of the [...]
Matt Jones and David Frohlich of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) developed a StoryBank for sharing stories across the digital divide…
(via Vodafone receiver)
The basic research objectives involved are:
1. To explore the value of novel forms of audiovisual stories for sharing local information in [...]
There seems to be a lot of potential in the use of mobile phones for ‘communication for development’
ICARDA KSinR Project uses mobile phones for knowledge sharing. Nadia Manning-Thomas posted on the KS Blog about a Pilot Project run by The International Centre for Agricultural Research in the [...]
Alex Steffen of Worldchanging shares in a recent article some thoughts on Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Better Future.
Worldchanging was founded on the idea that real solutions already exist for building the future we want. it’s just a matter of grabbing hold and getting moving.
Alex [...]
Syed Mohammad Ali of the Pakistanian Daily Times writes: “Unless the prevailing range of gender-related hurdles in availing the opportunities being provided by communication technologies, it is likely that women may become further marginalised from the economic, social, and political mainstream of their countries”
Numerous studies have pointed towards [...]
“Ubiquity and sustainability could turbocharge each other“, with these words Alex Steffen starts another thought provoking column on Worldchanging.
“The Net and the public square, as Castells wrote, are symbiants. That symbiosis makes informatics — the understanding of how people use technology to interact with information — a critical field [...]
Marshall Kirkpatrick reports on the ReadWriteWeb that the Iranian parliament is set to debate a draft bill that would add a number of crimes to the list of those that can result in execution, among them “establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy.” Apostasy means the abandonment [...]
The Independent reports that a new study has found that using a cell phone 2 or 3 times a day while pregnant is potentially harmful to future child development. The risk level is on par with that of alchohol and tobacco.
The research ? at the universities of California, Los [...]
Tobias Kemper writes us that his startup Nimbuzz launched today ‘a new FREE all-in-one solution on the mobile, PC and Web for calling, conference calling, instant messaging, group chat and chat rooms, and photo and file sending across multiple IM communities, including Skype, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo!, AIM, Jabber [...]
In order to reassure people and to squelch false rumors, the Chinese government is using SMS text messaging (translated) to mobile phones as well as internet postings to inform people that the areas where they live are not in the seismic zone. Over a million such messages were sent in [...]
A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County in Chinas southwestern Sichuan Province Monday afternoon. Details were given in an early report from Xinhua on Thaindian News and China View.
The Online Journalisme Blog of Paul Bradshaw keeps the world posted on [...]
More than 300 people ran riot and destroyed the award-winning Millenium Square garden in Leeds UK after they responded to a campaign for a mass water fight on social networking website Facebook.
Videos and pictures of people destroying the garden have been posted on the Facebook site and footage has [...]
Shorthand for locative journalism, LoJo is the name of a project launched by a team of Northwestern University graduate students to study the intersection of journalism and emerging location-based technologies.
These students are developing a multi-platform project that depicts how Chicago might change (economically, environmentally and socially) if it [...]
Hi Gerrit,
We appreciate you seeing the light in terms of what we are trying to accomplish here at Naymz.
The transparency, and lack-there-of, of the social web is growing in importance. More and more people are turning to Google and social networks to do background checks on others. Anybody can claim [...]
To keep track of the buzz on Naymz links are collected on this new linkpage naymz.start4all.com
calderstrategies.com about mobile campaigns for social change:
Mobile advocacy efforts are just beginning around the world. What are we learning from these emergent campaigns what works and what does not in using mobile phones to advance a cause or an issue?
Over 84 percent of Americans have cell phones, according to [...]
Martin May of Brightkite writes Smartmobs: Just wanted to give you the heads-up on our location-based social networking service, Brightkite, which we launched into private beta last week.
Brightkite is a location-based social network that enables people to take their online profiles with them into the real-world and make [...]
Since two weeks I am trying this new social network service called Naymz and find it has some added value compared to other networks. Listening however to what the community twitters about the assumed benefits I seem a bit lonely in my praise. Lonely or not in [...]
Thomas Vander Wal gives in this presentation an overview of the complexity in real social network relationships and visualization to help understand the key points that matter - people and interests. Here is a write-up of his view.
From April 20 till April 27 2008 two wellknown dutch internet entrepreneurs (Boris and Ernst-Jan) visit San Francisco to meet start-ups, party and, oh yeah, visit O’ Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo (blog). They will post on Boris Flickr account as many photos as they can during [...]
Everynote Blog: “Say you’re using Evernote to plan a trip. You’ve been clipping webpages of hotels and restaurants, typing itineraries, snapping photos of your travel documents (just in case). Now, you want to give all of your travel buddies access to this information. Evernote lets you do that”.
Evernote allows [...]
The masses of people surrounding the Pope’s visit to the US these days remind me of the contrast with 1985 when Pope John Paul II visited the Netherlands. It was during lunchhour in the city of the Hague that I took this snapshot when the Holy Father was on his [...]
Seen via Jurjen Veldhuizen’s Mobile Telecommunication and Gadgets blog. Read more on Engadget.com
We’ve seen quite a few prototype fuel-cell powered mobile devices, but Samsung’s upping the ante by predicting that we’ll all be running our phones on water by 2010. The company says it’s developed a method [...]
The mobile messaging market, like many others, is in a perpetual state of change, with phenomenal growth that has taken directions few could have predicted. Mobile Monday Madrid on April 21, 2008 will dive into the wonders of Mobile Messaging 2.0.
They invited Jan-Joost Kraal, VP of Mobile of [...]
Hey there! MAMK is using Twitter.
Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people using the web, your phone, or IM.
Name Mark A.M. Kramer
Location Salzburg, Austria
Web http://www.mamk.net
Bio Nomadic Research Fellow exploring the outer fringes of mobility and mobile [...]
OpenTech 2008 is a low-cost, one-day grassroots conference on Saturday 5 July 2008, London, UK with a wide range of sessions covering digital technology, society and the environment. Presented by UKUUG in association with mySociety + Open Rights Group
[thanx Mark! for pointing to the geeKyoto intiative via [...]
Business innovation consultant Eric Brun summed up the key arguments of the speakers of The Next Web Conference in a two-minute a video.
Eric gives a great overview of the speakers who attented there and shares some interesting insights. If you want to know more, browse to the live [...]
Arrested. Thats what 29 year old James Karl Buck sent from his phone out to the world via Twitter the other day. It seems Buck was snapping photos of a demonstration, and police collected him up and put him in jail.
When Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate journalism [...]
‘Innovation Nation’ (March 2008) is White Paper of the department of Innovation, Universities & Skills of the British government to create an Innovation Nation as a challenge for business, public services, third sector organisations, towns and cities, universities and colleges.
The message of this whitepaper is that innovation will be [...]
Demos Atlas of Ideas is mapping changes in the global geography of science and innovation - pinpointing where innovation is coming from and where it is heading.
So far the work has focused on China, India and South Korea, but Phase 2.0 sees Demos extend this work to include an [...]
Prepare to see less of your office, more of your family. Read how wireless communication is changing the way people work, live, love and relate to places.
Apr 10th 2008 From The Economist A special report by Andreas Kluth, Bay Area technology correspondent, about the social effects [...]
Non-human virtual identities have an increasing impact on our society. A virtual identity is not just an online identity of a person, but a new technical and social phenomenon. What if software agents, powered by artificial intelligence, start acting on your behalf in a digital marketplace? What are the legal [...]
Reuters reports: At least four Indonesian firms providing Internet services have blocked access to the YouTube Web site for carrying the Dutch lawmaker’s film that accuses the Koran of inciting violence, an information ministry official said.
At the time of this announcement the telecommunication firms PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom), [...]
Here is a report on Scoble’s keynote presentation at The NextWeb Conference. Robert Scoble talked about the user experience of social networks. The following is registered by Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief of The Next Web Blog.
“In the beginning of the nineties, everybody had the same experience on every [...]
The startup presentation on the NextWeb that really made me tick was Bemba’s. Bemba Media is a new social media company based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founders Aaron Peters and Arne Dibbits are on a mission to offer people the most easy and fun way [...]
During the NextWeb conference attendants and web followers of the videostream could interact direct on The Next Web unofficial official BackChannel, powered by Twitter and provided by RoelandP !!
Roeland (left on this pic) says about this service: ‘A backchannel is a place where visitors come together in [...]
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief of The Next Web Blog, closely related to the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam:
You can follow on April 3 & 4 the conference by downloading Silverlight to see the live video stream. So you might still miss the networking part, but you [...]
Forbes April 3: Indonesia will start blocking YouTube at the end of this week if Geert Wilders anti-Islamic film Fitna that has sparked protests in Indonesia is not removed from the file-sharing site, the government said on Thursday.
The information ministry has written to Internet service providers telling them to [...]
Professor Mr. Ellian of legal philosophy at Leiden University in the Wallstreet Journal:
“The issue isn’t really Mr. Wilders’s movie, or whether it incites hatred (..) It’s whether we are capable of defending our values against the intolerance of radical Muslims”.
“Some people wanted “Fitna” banned before seeing it. [...]
Is this in honor of april fools day? According to a press announcement by the dutch newsagency ANP now there’s a way for the Dutch to show the world that they disagree with the message of Fitna, the anti-Qoran film of Geert Wilders. Thats the apparent function of this [...]
Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders has posted a controversial film critical of Islam’s holy book, the Koran, on the internet.
The opening scenes show a copy of the Koran, followed by footage of the attacks on the US on 11 September 2001.
The 15-minute film was posted on video-sharing website [...]
New IDC Study Forecasts Explosive Growth Of The Digital Universe; Spotlights Worldwide Phenomenon Of Digital Shadow
For First Time the Digital Shadow Amount of Digital Information Being Generated About People Surpasses the Amount They Create Themselves; Digital Universe Bigger Than Estimated Due to Explosion of Digital Cameras, Digital [...]
Arnaud Leene pointed via Twitter to the ‘perfect twitter tool’ Quotably, saying “Looks interesting” ….. and with his reputation as Internet Hooverer, microblogging expert, when Arnaud says, looks interesting, i better take that serious. [thank you Arnaud! thanx also for twittering about Friendfeed’s threading !! ]
how [...]
Apparently, Max Kiesler has proposed to Emily Chang over Twitter (took him fifteen years, sheesh). And she said yes! [See Emily’s Data Stream]
by way of Mashable
For months now, the Netherlands has been in the grip of the anti-Qur’an film announced by politician Geert Wilders [wikipedia]. What exactly is going on in the Netherlands? And why doesn’t the Dutch government ban the film?
Radio Netherlands Worldwide has produced its own short film about the [...]
