Else-If-Then

Category: Netherlands

  • On Oude Binneweg

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    On Oude Binneweg Originally uploaded by cuuixsilver I’ve walked up and down this street a couple of times, but haven’t yet had a chance to really explore the shops there–this section has only pedestrian traffic, which I love. Yesterday I at least made it into a cheese shop and it was amazing. The light on…

  • Erasmusbrug

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    Erasmusbrug Originally uploaded by cuuixsilver Another oft photographed view. The nicest part (I think) is that the bridge has a walkway, so you can stroll across and enjoy nice views of the city. I had been at the graduation show for the Willem de Kooning Academy, which is connected to Piet Zwart and houses the…

  • And even more plenary…

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    Interesting start; Katy Borner is talking about how the amount of knowledge out there has grown enormously and yet our brains are not getting any bigger, and there’s not a good way to extract it automatically. How can we create infrastructures to help us? Google is good, but doesn’t show patterns and trends and outliers.…

  • NNT, Day 2 plenary

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    Ok, back to the present, and more catch up later. Today we start with Nosh Contractor talking about the motives that drive people to participate in social networks–there are lots of possible reasons, some economic, some social, mixed, etc. He is doing research to collect lots of data on motives with the aim of creating…

  • Back to live blogging

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    OK, I charged the battery a bit, so now back to live reporting on the first day, just in time for the very last talk by Florian Cramer. I’ll go back and post my notes from the others later. A nice intro by Matthew Fuller who mentions that among other things, Florian has won in…

  • More About the Trip

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    So, more about the trip. I’ll be in Amsterdam for one conference and Utrecht for the second, but I’ll actually be spending most of my time in Rotterdam. Or as my Lonely Planet Netherlands guide calls it, “Mighty Rotterdam.” 🙂 I haven’t actually been there yet, but I suspect R’dam is seriously underrated. I mean,…