Monthly Archives: November 2005

Public broadcasting under fire

By admin | Published: November 22, 2005

Yesterday the parliament debated on the new plans for public broadcasting in het Netherlands (2008) A lot of the parties favoured a commercial free public broadcasting system. The responsible state secretary Medy van der Laan however is not in favour of a commercial free public broadcasting system. Now the revenues from commercials for Public Broadcasters [...]

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Utrecht students show crossmedia talent!

By admin | Published: November 10, 2005

This afternoon Jorgen van der Sloot and I functioned as a jury to new media students in Utrecht. Nine weeks of hard work had to be pitched in 10 minutes:
http://crossmediaforum.web-log.nl/log/4060642
In every project there where pearls, like the personal assistant with an attitude in “get dressed”, the promo of E-force and mixing of real life [...]

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Sell your virtual villa and make a real buckl!!

By admin | Published: November 10, 2005

A gamer who spent £13,700 on an island that exists only in a computer game has recouped his investment, according to the game developers.
He made money by selling land to build virtual homes as well as taxing other gamers to hunt or mine on the island.Project Entropia offers gamers the chance to buy and sell [...]

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Digital Think

By admin | Published: November 10, 2005

The mediacenter has come up with a new bundle of work from ‘digital thinkers’. Here’s what they say about it:
‘This is the dawn of the connected epoch in human civilization. We are living, you and I, in the first seconds of a society reshaped by empowered individuals connected by digital networks, of lives shaped by [...]

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