Building New Franchise Buildings vs Inhabiting Old Buildings Project 2, By Claudio VanDuijn For project 2 I decided to look at franchises as a new technology. Franchises like McDonalds, DunkinDonuts, and BurgerKing, thrive on the model of building cheap and dirty, using single-use products and More

Bangor Green Project 3, New Media 200, By Claudio VanDuijn An environmental Rating App For The Greater Bangor Area The Idea Our project is a proof of concept app called Bangor Green. This app inspects businesses for their environmental impact and gives a letter grade More

A Glimpse Into New Media Strategies by Claudio VanDuijn, Journal 9, NMD200 CROWDSOURCE THE JOB: Topcoder is a platform that uses crowdsourcing to develop people’s projects with incredible speeds. Essentially the website is a community of over 1.5 million, coders, graphic designers, and innovators. If More

Corporate Influx On Small Towns Journal 7: New Media 200, by Claudio van Duijn Franchise businesses and their influx on small rural towns For Journal 7 I will be discussing my home town of Blue Hill Maine. Blue Hill was founded in 1762, a small More

  The Problem With AI Centralization By Claudio Van Duijn, Journal 6 When artificial intelligence is mentioned many people immediately react with fear. The remainder worry about how it will affect jobs in the future and the economy as a whole, but some realize its More

Many-To-Many prompts and solutions by Claudio Van Duijn PROBLEM: A DISAPPEARING LANGUAGE Ian Larson wanted to help preserve the Passamaquoddy language from extinction. SOLUTION A Create a task force from a select group of Native American language experts, and ask them to write down a dictionary of More

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False advertising plagues the internet, our social media streams and the digital environment as a whole. Most of these products are either cheap knock-offs from China or simply low-quality items advertised as something different. In the example of the Dji Maveric, we have an image More

Eliminating the middleman: Using social media to create direct markets  Social media is fueled by the internet giants, facebook, google, ect. These large corporations make their money through advertising products from around the world. Many of these products are low quality ‘eye candy’ this essentially More

The Re-design of Social Media Balance  An app for modern humans  By Claudio van Duijn The Media Issue  While many people feel great about themselves and use social media without an issue, there are also many people who suffer from the downfalls of the platforms. More

Social Media as a Depressant and why it acts in such a manner   The People Behind your Teck Addiction  This article highlights the dark side of technology, everything that induces pleasure has the opportunity to become addictive. At the Center for Humane Technology, their More

Journal 2 : Curbing the Beast    The articles from this week presented a familiar picture of the magnitude we are integrated with technology and the internet. One report says 94% of people in us 18-29 have smartphones on them most, if not all of More

Humans Evolution Alongside Technology I was reading last month about Nuerolink, a company Elon Musk purchased about three years ago. The company designs EEG headsets. EEG headsets are able to read your brain waves, essentially allowing humans to interact with digital mediums through there brains. More