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Archives for december, 2009

Consumentenbond goes Twitter (and hopefully learns from it)

The Dutch consumers union, the ‘Consumentenbond’, wants to reach new audiences. With their monthly magazine, readers can figure out which broom or coffee machine is the best buy, often leaving out impurities of production methods (well, not always). This time, noticed by a friend, they announced a debate to be held on Twitter. The topic would [...]

Bashers/Xi-Online debate on Game Journalism

Last Wednesday I attended at the discussion night organized by Xi-Online (the student magazine of Media Studies) and Bashers (a collective of bloggers that aim to write about the cultural aspects of videogames). The discussion panel consisted of Jan Meijroos (freelance game journalist), Jurrie Hobers (vicepresident sales & marketing at Codemasters), David Nieborg (game researcher [...]