http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/ The world according to Kimeen Sun, 11 Jul 2004 06:00:00 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2004. http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/archive/11.html Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:14:14 GMT Listening to: Float on - Modest Mouse Finally! I have finished my paper with even one day to spare! Prepare to be baffled (or at least slightly amused....) Fanning vs. the music moguls Looking into the entertainment industry's battle against illegal file sharing Introduction A few weeks ago it turned out the building I’m living in was one of the largest hubs of illegal activity in the world. Having introduced ‘almost lightning speed’ Internet in the student flats of it’s Tuindorp West complex, housing corporation SSHU found itself the target of a large scale... (more) http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/comments?id=11 http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/archive/10.html Thu, 27 May 2004 18:15:42 GMT Listening to: The passenger - Iggy Pop Useful stuff Due to an enormous work load from other courses I'm taking at the moment I only found time to look for relevant articles and such for my final paper today. I did stumble upon some very interesting things while surfing the Net - or googling as it is called nowadays. As stated before (Thursday May 6th) I want to concentrate on the possibilities that condoning (music) file sharing provide to consumers and the music industry. In particular, I want to investigate how the music industry can create goodwill by allowing people to up- and... (more) http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/comments?id=10 http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/archive/9.html Tue, 25 May 2004 07:50:13 GMT Listening to: Steve Lamacq on Radio One What is P2P...And what isn’t? – Clay Shirky (2000) The P2P Report – Emelie Rutherford (2000) After reading these articles I felt I understood less of what P2P is then before Shirky tried to explain it. Consequently, I don’t have any critical questions accompanied by my own answers, just two questions I would like to be answered. What are DNS systems exactly? Shirky writes: ‘(…) Intel’s “server peer-to-peer” is not P2P, because servers have always been peers. Their fixed IP adrdresses and permanent connections present... (more) http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/comments?id=9 http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/archive/8.html Tue, 18 May 2004 09:26:01 GMT Listening to: BBC Radio One From consumers to Users: Shifting the Deeper Structures of Regulation Toward Sustainable Commons and User Access - Y. Benkler (2000) Even though I applaud the optimistic viewpoint that Benkler obviously wants to share with his reader I wonder if there shouldn’t be some sort of regulatory body. Surely there are also sides to the Internet that shouldn’t get out of hand or even be completely banned: child pornography, etc. Q Are we utterly subject to the will of large ICT-corporations such as AOL? A Even though laws have become stricter I’m sure... (more) http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/comments?id=8 http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/archive/7.html Tue, 11 May 2004 08:45:01 GMT Listening to: The sound of Utrecht waking up What is organisational culture? - L. Küng-Shanklemanc (2000) Q On page 15 Küng-Shanklemanc explains Schein's model of cultural inheritance within a company: “The group behaves in a certain way based on the founder’s beliefs and values, and either succeeds or fails; (…) If it succeeds, and this process repeats itself, the founder’s beliefs, values and assumptions come to be validated in the shared experiences of the group.” Will the group always follow the set of beliefs and values held by the founder? A To me this seems... (more) http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/comments?id=7 http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/archive/6.html Thu, 06 May 2004 17:14:17 GMT Listening to: Chariots rise - Lizzie West With the advent of the Internet came numerous possibilities for us - the common user - to utilise powerful technologies. One such option is the downloading of sound files. Although as of late this has mostly been in the news as a negative aspect of said network, there are also some positive sides to it as well. Personally I feel this has been overshadowed by large media conglomerates suing private persons left and right. Perhaps it is time to make the big corporations see that music file sharing can be used to their advantage. As a case study... (more) http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/comments?id=6 http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/archive/5.html Mon, 03 May 2004 15:24:51 GMT Listening to: Did Galileo pray? - Ellis Paul Geographies of the information society - M. Dodge & R. Kitchin (2001) Q According to Dodge en Kitchin with the advent of cyberspace we hardly share any historical conciousness with the people who are geographically close to us. Isn't this a little harsh? A Here I have to refer to Queen's Day again (and with any luck upcoming Independence Day). The multitude of people who feel the need to share these national holidays with the people that live close by is a sure sign that the social connection we feel with others – even virtual... (more) http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/comments?id=5 http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/archive/4.html Mon, 03 May 2004 13:46:11 GMT Listening to: Morning after - Howie Day The Communicative Affordances of Technological Artefacts - I. Hutchby (2001) Q Hutchby says in his article that he tries not to 'assume that an era of "technologized interaction" is already upon us. However, this is a very interesting question to ask ourselves. Are we already living in a world that is shaped by technologized communications? A Obviously this is true; it's virtually impossible for inhabitant of Western society to function properly in this community without the use of communication technologies. Still we shouldn't jump the... (more) http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/comments?id=4 http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/archive/3.html Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:52:19 GMT Listening to: Michael - Franz Ferdinand Economic perspectives - H. Vogel (2001) First I want to start off by saying that I found it rather difficult to ascertain the importance of this text in comparison with the overall course especially because I never took economy in high school and many of the terms used in the text are completely foreign to me. However, I did try to formulate some sort of critique on Vogel's article. Q Doesn't Vogel overlook a very important aspect which determines the way in which people balance work and leisure time? A I am of the opinion that... (more) http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/comments?id=3 http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/archive/2.html Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:21:30 GMT Listening to: Pink bullets - The Shins Interactive audiences? - Henry Jenkins Q Do the new possibilities offered by media such as the Internet give its consumers more freedom or is this simply an illusion? A We're dealing here with a subject extensively covered by Fiske and Adorno. Adorno claims that media consumers are always going to be dominated by the media. He sees it as impossible to escape the grip and influence the media have on our lives and actions. Fiske is less pessimistic. He acknowledges the influence or power the media can have over its consumers but at the same time... (more) http://rg1timmermans.blogdrive.com/comments?id=2