http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/ Gijs van Wiechen Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:56:07 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2005. Movies Television Arts http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/archive/20.html Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:52:16 GMT waza http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=20 http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/archive/19.html Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:13:24 GMT Hi all, The temptation is too big: I have to start continuing this blog. I have decided to move my blog to another more convenient one namely: http://GvanWiechen.blogdrive.com Hopefully I'll see at least some people there! SCROLL DOWN FOR MY PAPER ON BITTORRENT Some minor adjustments: Noticed that the notes are incomplete.here they are: [9] Among others: Becker & Clement (2004); Strahilevitz (2002); Golle, Leyton-Brown & Mironov (2002), Adar & Huberman (2000) [10] Some examples: http://www.Desitorrents.com deals with everything Indian (from music and films to... (more) http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=19 http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/archive/18.html Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:58:15 GMT The BitTorrent Way? Final Paper Participatory Culture Gijs van Wiechen Studentno.: 0000531 June 2004 Instructor: Shenja de Graaf Introduction File-sharing and P2P are a much debated phenomenon in the realm of politics, business, internet developers and cultural and communication studies alike. Whether it is a futuristic assessment promoting the cliché “Power to the People” or a fight against the illegal activities taking place, it cannot be denied that P2P has proven to be very influential in thinking about relations... (more) http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=18 http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/archive/17.html Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:48:20 GMT Case-Study I www.suprnova.org Suprnova.org is in many respects the quintessential BitTorrent site. Not because the way the site is structured, but because the enormous amount of content published here every day. For example an average day (in this case the 27th of june) will show 64 game, 62 movie, 47 television, 194 music, 79 software, 12 Anime, two Apple Mac, one comic and 13 miscellaneous releases, combined a grand total of 474 releases. The statistics of suprnova show a daily average (June 2004) of 1,800,522 hits a day, coming from 852,806 visits.[1] The popularity has quite possibly to... (more) http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=17 http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/archive/16.html Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:38:39 GMT This is quite interesting, and I didn't even know it existed. It's about an alternative copyright called creative commons license (cc) (no, not cloes captioned)....... visit the site 2 http://creativecommons.org/ or watch the very informative flash films: @ http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/ http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=16 http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/archive/15.html Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:25:20 GMT And here, at last is the last Q&A, based on Nixon's article in "Cultural Economy" Enjoy ;-p Re-imagining the ad-agency S. Nixon In this piece Nixon talks about the changes in the relationship between client and advertisement agency, as an example of the intense relation between culture and economics. Explain this. The ad agency and its business relations are usually considered in purely economic terms, but with recent debates within this realm, the importance of culture surfaces quite clearly. With economic recession amongst others, clients of the... (more) http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=15 http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/archive/14.html Wed, 02 Jun 2004 16:16:11 GMT Here is the first of this weeks Q&A's, the others will follow shortly! Creating and Managing Brands A. Tybout and G. Carpenter Question: Tybout and Caprenter mention several (dis)advantages of using specific types of branding. Explain how these (dis)advantages relate to the emphasis on functionality, image and experience. The specific branding methods recognised by Tybout and Carpenter have on the one hand specific qualities, but also some negative side effects, directly related to the method chosen. The most tangible way of branding has to do with so called... (more) http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=14 http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/archive/13.html Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:36:09 GMT Hi S, Hopefully when you read this you're already feeling better, hospitals aren't quite the most fun places to go to. About my Q&A's: i've got some delay due to some personal business, one mentioned somewhere below. This means that I cannot provide any Q&A's before the deadline at three. I will however post these Q&A's somewhere tomorrow. I'm sorry if that messes up your schedule for grading them, which you were planning to do in the next few days. Regards Gijs http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=13 http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/archive/12.html Thu, 27 May 2004 18:53:04 GMT Research Outline Participatory Culture Gijs van Wiechen 0000531 Bittorrent communities: Easy, fast and social? File-sharing is quite possibly the second most important thing happening on the internet, the first being the exchange of information through websites and email. In May 2003, for instance, one third of the adult internet users admitted using file sharing software (May 2003).[1] While networked computers have always exchanged data, the introduction of the popular and easy to use system of Napster in the late 1990s has made file-sharing possible for every user of the... (more) http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=12 http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/archive/11.html Mon, 24 May 2004 16:39:40 GMT First of all, let me share with you that my grandmother passed away this morning, at a beautiful age of 85 years. Luckily I had the chance to say goodbye to her yesterday....she will be greatly missed by me and all of my family! But let's go on with our daily business, here are the questions for week six. What is P2P…..and what isn’t? C. Shirky Question: What are P2P-networks according to Shirky? Shirky has a highly technical approach towards what P2P actually is. P2P networks are based on a system that connects multiple PC’s with another within the internet, in a... (more) http://rg3vanwiechen.blogdrive.com/comments?id=11