This morning I finished an email interview with yet another...

Interview with Sole 24 Ore: Crushing the Web 2.0 Myths

By Geert Lovink, April 21, 2006

This morning I finished an email interview with yet another Italian newspaper, this time Sole 24 Ore. Vito Lops sent me a long list of questions and I answered a good 2/3 of them. The material is timely and covers topics such as the rising influence of venture capital in the Web 2.0 domain, the [...]

I submitted the site of our institute (and this blog)...

networkcultures.org not allowed to join blogburst

By Geert Lovink, April 17, 2006

I submitted the site of our institute (and this blog) to Blogburst, just to see what happens. Blogburst is a US-American service that takes topical content from ‘pre-approved’ blogs and provides it to publishers for republication. “You get visibility, audience reach and traffic, while publishers weave the rich and diverse fabric of the blogosphere into [...]

On tour in Southern California

By Geert Lovink, April 12, 2006

This week I am visiting UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, Artcenter and USC (LA) for a number of events and talks. I was invited by Lisa Parks to speak at Digital Transitions and used the occasion to visit a few other places to catch up with fellow media theorists and artists. Opposite of the [...]

Disturbing reports came in last night from Delhi, thanks to...

Latest reports from the Nangla Maanchi eviction (Dehli settlement)

By Geert Lovink, March 31, 2006

Disturbing reports came in last night from Delhi, thanks to Ravi Sundaram from Sarai, who sent the personal accounts, written over the past days about the eviction of the Nangla Maanchi settlement where one of Sarai’s media labs (called cybermohalla) was based. I have saved some of the messages on my pages. A few days [...]

Blog about endangered Delhi settlement

By Geert Lovink, March 28, 2006

Monica Narula of the new media centre Sarai in Delhi has written the following call about the eviction of a settlement in Delhi where one of Sarai’s media labs (called Cybermohalla) is based: Dear friends, Over last 35 years we have seen many an internal dislocation of habitations and life worlds within the city of [...]

This is the code word for the research that I...

Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse

By Geert Lovink, March 24, 2006

This is the code word for the research that I have been doing over the past months, while based in Berlin at the Wissenschaftskolleg, the Institute of Advanced Study. Next week I will give an internal presentation on this topic for the 40 Wiko fellows and staff. Every fellow has to do such a presentation [...]

As a part of the Tesla Netzkultur dialogue series that...

Discussion on Iraqi blogs with Catherine David

By Geert Lovink, March 22, 2006

As a part of the Tesla Netzkultur dialogue series that take place in Podewil, Berlin, hosted by Andreas Broeckmann (Transmediale), I discussed Iraqi blogs and related sites with curator Catherine David, who is, like me, a 2005-2006 fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg. After showing the usual sites such as Streamtime, Iraq Blog Count and Salam Pax. [...]

At Meet the Media Guru last Thursday in Milan, Franco...

Response of Bifo on my blogging & nihilism theses

By Geert Lovink, March 22, 2006

At Meet the Media Guru last Thursday in Milan, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi gave a response to my theory of blogs. After returning to Bologna Bifo wrote down the following notes: Geert has read some pages from “Internet non è il paradiso” (the not so beautiful translation of the much more intelligent: My First Recession). I [...]

Today I worked on an email interview with Daniele Miggiono...

Interview for Mentelocale.it (Daniele Miggino)

By Geert Lovink, March 20, 2006

Today I worked on an email interview with Daniele Miggiono (Genova), who sent me a number of questions via email for the Mentelocale website. Here is the interview. It deals with the changes over the past decade in net culture. The Italian translation can be found here.

Op vrijdagmiddag 24 februari 2006 vond in de Amsterdamse Club...

Bloggend bouwen, essay over Internet en stedebouw in NL

By Geert Lovink, March 9, 2006

Op vrijdagmiddag 24 februari 2006 vond in de Amsterdamse Club 11 de conferentie Suburban scenario’s plaats, georganiseerd door Citythoughts. Onderwerp was verdichting van de Randstad en op welke manier kunstenaars en critici aankijken tegen het steeds verder dichtslibben van Nederland. De publicatie is nu online verkrijgbaar als pdf op www.citythoughts.nl. Ik heb een mijn eigen, [...]