There are many popular and free services on the Internet for creating and sharing your own content. However many of these services has limitations when it comes to space, freedom to alter the system and making your personal touch. However these services proves to be very useful combined with a personal domain and web site. Set up one today, it is cheap, easy and is done in very few steps. Here is a short guide to help you on your…
Earlier this summer, after delivering our exams, Jules and I went to Turkey for an inexpensive and spontaneous holiday. Here is a short summary of what we saw and did. Hopefully this could prove useful if you’re planning a trip to the Anatolian peninsula, if not maybe it could teach you one or two things you did not know about Turkey. Planning the trip During the last months of the semester, the urge for a short holiday became more imminent. All day reading sources and writing academic papers…
Many governmental and corporate offices choose to be present in social media, and to share and gather information here. Internet services such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube have enabled organisational bodies to participate on an arena where also individuals are contributing, commenting and sharing content. Are you working within an organisation being present in one of these arenas or other. Then I want to get in touch with you. On which platforms are your organisation present, and how? How…
As a student of digital media it is important for me to stay up to date with the recent developments in the online community. Much have happened the last five years and statistics on usage is not always up to date. As a result I created this survey using the web service surveymonkey, which I have understood to be one of the major online survey companies on the web. Since I do not have much research money I chose the…
“Think less but see it grow like a riot, like a riot, oh I’m not easily offended It’s not hard to let it go from a mess to the masses” The article’s title being a slightly modified song title by Phoenix, and containing the chorus from the same song, this is not a tribute to the popular French band but rather an explanation on something I have seen as being a growing phenomena in mine, and others, Internet habits: the…
“Nice flat to let. 400 ppm. Central location” – The flat advertisements on Gumtree attracting possible tenants with nice pictures, a good descriptive text of your dream flat, and a price you can afford can create many dreams. A good kitchen to cook fantastic meals, a fancy living room with many seats for friends and family and a delicate bath- and bedroom. You think you have found THE flat, could it be too good to be true? Jane is letting…
The perception of our own time in history is always a topic beckoning many opinions and explanations. What is typical for the people living now? How will our culture and ways of living be described in a 25th century school book, and how does this fit with how we picture ourselves in our time? Many more questions could be asked, and they could be more specific, but until further I enjoy the comfort of a new semester to find out…
The World Exhibition has been around for over 150 years and been arranged in several important cities. Many would say that these cities are considered to be power centres of their contemporary, just look at the examples. In 1851, when it all began, it was held in London, the centre of the British Empire. In 1899, it was held in Paris. At that time, as well as earlier and later, one of the most influential cities of literature, art and…
It’s been a couple of days without updates, but here is an end to that. Shanghai is amazing and since we came we have just explored small fragments of this enormous city. The city is a former multi-cultural gathering place for 1900-century imperial European powers, and this can be found in today’s division of the city. At the Bund, where the former British customs building and HSBC headquarters can be found was the entry to the city located on on…
Finally in Shanghai. After a long flight where Harald Swart’s movie the Karate Kid was showed and where one of the radio channels available was dedicated to Oktoberfest music we arrived Pudong Airport. China is massive, and Shanghai is a good example portraying this. Due to the world exhibition and being a major actor on the stage of international business Shanghai is a city of contrasts, a mixture of everything, where high business towers are raging just meters from local…