Collaboration T-Mobile,Twitter and the invisibles

Since 9/11 our privacy has been reduced for security reasons. Consequently companies can store all or internetdata 6 months till two year in order "to protect the country" . George Orwell has written the book 1984 about the feature of our privacy and the role of the government controlling our social lives with data. Nowadays Orwell can be falsified because of the fact that not only the government are taking our lives in to control but also big brands like TomTom, Facebook, Sony and T-Mobile are the owners of worlds most powerful data. In this blog I will explain the danger of this development by the use of a personal case including the specific role of T-mobile and Twitter.

Take a look on the Wild site

Today we celebrate the end of World War II in the Netherlands. We can live in relative freedom and can spread almost every word without being tortured or being arrested by the police. To regulate our society the government has set up laws about the way we can communicate with each other (Article 285 Wetboek van Strafrecht). This article is about the ban on death threats. But how must we interpret this law when we take a look at the Wild West on the Internet? Even on this memorial day bullets are flying. 

Brands are buying news

As a football-fan I am always looking for updates and news of football. Websites like vi.nl and voetbalzone.nl are covering football news around the globe almost 24 hours a day. As mentioned before in a previous blog, the relevance and the reliability of the presented news are sometimes doubtful. Not only because the reliability of the news but also the source of the news can be controversial. Today I found a good  example of directed news on an official Ajax fan-website . So who is really making the news? Independent web-editors or powerful brands?

Football and War Part 1: Juventus

What's the link between Khadafi, Juventus and merchandising ?

The ease of online media manipulation

Do you want to influence media and society? Read this log carefully.

First Step:
Choose a subject that's really hot at the moment. Especially online websites are searching the entire day for news on Twitter and Blogs. In fact they are too lazy to set up their own story, so they simple copy-paste our findings. Newsmedia have called this 'crowdsourcing', I am calling this saving money and reducing sweat.

//My case: Feyenoord football player Luigi Bruins formed the subject of my topic. Traditionally January is a transfer month and that's why online reporters are dedicated for transfer rumors. They do not like to disappoint their visitors, so all the rumors are welcome.
 

Social Media aka Stasi 2.0

The people of Egypts have formed the news since two weaks. Because of the Facebook flashmob different sorts of media have suggested that social can liberate the world from dictatorships. Let me tell you another story, based on Evgeny Morozov's book - The Net Delusion.

Me Myself the hypocrite

Communication Parrots

Setting up a weblog about business communication is the easiest thing to do for me. As a communication graduate it is not hard to find relevant articles and weblogs about this subject. Four years Bachelor nearly convinced me about the value of social media and the 'opportunities' this medium has to offer us.

The University told me to set up a blog and a twitter to publish about communication. Keeping in my mind that we all describing our own (feature)business i am expecting numerous of positive posts and tweets about communication and social mediablabla. One of the first lessons in marketing is: Be Remarkable. That's the main reason this weblog is set up in a "pickle-wise" way.

I hope to serve and enjoy you the next couple of months with anti-digital communication posts. Next topic will be about Evgeny Morozov (cyber-utopism).