Republican campaigning

This is how it goes. Sneaky bastards.

Artists and user generated fanbase….ehhh…content

The web doesn’t just allow user generated content like fan movies or video responses. It can do much more than that and recently it’s causing a revolution in the comic and artistic world.

Finding a publisher is difficult….very difficult. You go through interviews, presentations, rejections, more rejections. Finally finding someone who will publish your material…….but not without a trial of only 200 copies of course, as a publisher you want to be on the safe side no?

But why all these rejections and trial versions while you can generate a huge fanbase and reputation on the world wide web? As a result more and more webcomics, art and creative pages are popping up some atracting millions of viewers every day! This creates another plus side, it makes it easier to find a publisher. Knowing the artist has a sound group of people around them, willing to buy their books or art. 

This is a good development. Art is becomming more digitalized anyway. As I see it the web gives artists a platform to make they’re work known to a much wider audience. It gives people surfing the web a broader perspective then just watching jackass type movies or mentos/cola light fountains,also it brightens my day. Art on the web is something that should be watched carefully, every year there are more and more great artist to be discovered  and pages like deviantart are booming. So if there’se one thing you should pay attention to in webskills it’s funnily enough….art.

Years behind

Tokyo is as big as the province of Utrecht and still you can ask anyone for directions to the most tiny street you need to go to. After they’ve shown you, the person also points out a nice restaurant in the neighberhood and were you can get some cash at a nearby atm. In all the time I’ve lived there i have never gotten lost.

How come we don’t have this kind of technology? Mobility and connectivity in the Netherlands are years behind. Why is it still so expensive to use internet on your mobile for instance?

Japan is one of the countries that eyes often turn to when considering the future trends of technology. Changes in technology have made it so that people are far more interested in spending their money on mobile gadgets which have video capability and high speed Internet connectivity. This internet connectivity alows people in Japan to quickly search the internet for maps, restaurants or tourist atracctions. Even though our country praises itself for the ‘knowledge economy’ we are years behind. Not so much as in technology, this already excists, as in the laws and regulations that have to get everything on the road. And most importanly, all these applications at an affordable price. 

 I say we should get things moving! I’m sick and tired of waiting for the new mobile technologies. I too want to talk to my girlfriend while seeing here real time through our cameras. I too don’t want to get lost in a city i’ve never been to yet. And most importantly of all. I want all this fast, and cheap.