Education Meets Facebook
In collaboration with Amsterdam High School, Het 4e Gymansium, THEY created a series of Facebook history timelines to make learning more fun.
Moran Barkai’s “Revolution: Share! The Role of Social Media in Pro-Democratic Movements”
Moran Barkai, a friend and fellow Media Culture alumni at Maastricht University has written a book that delves into social media’s role in the political upheavals that have swept the Middle East and North Africa. Read More…
No SLR, No Problem
Here are some pictures I took while down in the French countryside, using my unassuming Blackberry phone camera.
What’s In My Bag? (Geek Traveler Edition)
Technology has certainly changed the way we travel. As travel times continue to shrink, the opposite can be said for all the electronic gadgets people use when they travel, which only continue to proliferate; from communication devices, entertainment gadgets to tools chronicling the experience. Of course, these gadgets must be used to enhance the travel experience and not replace it or serve as a distraction, thus, one must always take the nature of travel and the destination, into account.
Here are the things that you would usually find in my rucksack when I travel. From top left, clock-wise…
Going Viral: Facebook’s New Layout Sparks Creativity
A few days ago, a creative French Man named Alexandre Oudin decided to play around with his new Facebook profile page. What he did was rather awesome that it eventually got featured in a TechCrunch article. After reading the article two nights ago, I just could not resist trying it, so I quickly took a picture of myself, cropped them according to the appropriate sizes, uploaded them and voila. My Oudin-inspired profile was born.
Needless to say, it was a hit among friends and much like how Oudin sparked the creativity in me, some of them did it too! Here is one of them…
Hello, I’m Clarence
An Amsterdam-based twenty something with a multicultural background and an interest in far too many things.
Currently working in the strategic arm of a Dutch advertising agency.
Willingly surrendering to biking, cold weather and hagelslag. Read more here.
