The User is the Content: The Book: Plug for my friends at Chips : their book, "The User is the Content", the result from an expertmeeting in Antwerp last April on the subject of user-generated content is out for sale from Lulu .From the description:" 'The User is the Content - 10 scenarios for the future' is the result of the expertmeeting on The User is the Content, 26 and 27 April 2007 in Antwerp, as part...

Meeting of Minds: The User is the Content: I will be present at the Meeting of Minds in Antwerpen (Belgium) on April 26th-27th. It will be an excellent opportunity to discuss the societal implications of the Web revolution, that has empowered us all to create, publish and share massively online. The people formerly known as the audience are no longer merely consumers, and the old-media players have lost their monopoly on content delivery - or as McLuhan exclaimed: the user is the content. His wor...

Run Motherfucker Run: Note to myself: quit feeling like you are constantly running in a threadmill, hunted down by work, meetings, information overflow, ... Man, the last months where like a constant run on the Run Motherfucker Run, a new media installation by Marnix de Nijs I had the chance to experience during DEAF 2005 and Ars Electronica in Linz that same year. And then to say i'm actually supposed to be an "ep...